Archive for June, 2010
Lego movie? What’s next a Tupperware sitcom?
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
This could be the ultimate in product placement for a plastic product -- a feature film about Lego toys. The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog is reporting that Warner Bros. is in final negotiations with Phil Lord and Chris Miller...
Shout out to Cathy Frank! Polly’s Pick winner of Ring N Things
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
I must give a HUGE shout out to Cathy Frank for her design in Friendly Plastic winning a Polly's Pick award in the Your Designs Rock Rings N Things contest!
Artist: Cathy Frank (Pittsburgh, PA)
Polly's Pick, Found Objects & Miscellaneous
"After producing multimedia jewelry (Metalsmithing BS, Art Ed, SUNY, New Paltz ‘81), ornaments and Judaica for over 20 years -- the past 12 primarily with Friendly Plastic(R) -- I feel like I have been reborn! With the help and generosity of the online crafters community, I have begun to experiment with alcohol inks, imprinting on Friendly Plastic and fabricating thin sheet metal. How-to blogs, tutorials and videos abound and each artist is encouraged and invited to take their own artistic journey. Through experimentation new techniques emerge. I am very excited with my results!
"Technique: Alcohol inks are air brushed onto Friendly Plastic modeling sticks and heated in a small oven. Gold and bronze embossing powders are applied to stamp and pressed into the Friendly Plastic after about 1 minute of cooling and setting. Piece is then buffed with a soft cloth to remove some of the powder, trimmed and adhered to card stock. Metal work: Gold and silver wire is twisted together and formed around the Friendly Plastic piece. Wire is adhered to the front matte board template. ArtEmboss gold sheet is cut, adhered to the back, and burnished up and around the side of the piece, capturing the twisted wire and bezeling it in place. Holes are made carefully with a dental tool and all findings are attached."
-- Cathy Frank
Polly’s Picks are designs our editor especially likes despite the fact that they did not win a formal prize. These designs are often simple, practical and/or whimsical examples of how to use Rings & Things components well.
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Calif. bag maker says ‘Let’s bag the ban’
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Pete Grande, president and CEO of Command Packaging in Vernon, Calif., wrote a powerful defense of plastic bags in an op-ed column published today on the Los Angeles Times Web site. Headlined "The unintended consequences of a plastic bag ban,"...
Amish-made recycled plastic?
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Here's one of those stories that just doesn't sound right, courtesy of the Canton, Ohio, Repository: Amish World adds furniture made from recycled milk jugs PLAIN TWP. -- Amish-built outdoor furniture made from recycled plastic milk jugs is now available...
NewAge again a top small business
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Congratulations -- once again -- to flexible hose and tubing supplier NewAge Industries Inc. of Southampton, Pa., which named a finalist in the 2010 Top Small Workplaces competition sponsored by Inc. magazine and Winning Workplaces, a nonprofit organization dedicated to...
Diversified Plastics honored for wellness efforts
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Congratulations to Diversified Plastics Inc. in Minneapolis, which has received a Bronze award for the 2010 Hennepin County Wellness by Design competition. The award, from the Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Department, honors employers that "excel in creating...
Lisa Sparkles and Stamps into Friendly Plastic !
Monday, June 28th, 2010
Lisa is from the UK and as she says...Grab a cuppa and look around. She does great Friendly Plastic work. Be sure to check out all her arty work on her blog at: www.lisasparklesandstamps.blogspot.com
She writes:
Welcome to the place where I share the arty, crafty, inky, stampy things that I make. Grab a cuppa, pull up a chair and feel free to look around
I may have mentioned that I've joined the Stamp Man design team once or twice....... well I had a play with some new Aspects of Design stamps - Artistic Elements. Ooh, it's a lovely set, just my sort of designs, and lots of images on the one set, so lots of scope for use which I like.
I painted a little square canvas with red acrylic paint, then used the scrolls on the edge of the little frame stamp in the set to stamp around the canvas in white Brilliance ink.
Canvases are impossible to stamp onto so I stamped the keys onto tissue paper in black and sponged some red Distress Ink over. I ripped the tissue paper and glued it onto the canvas using glossy accents.
The gold frame is stamped into gold friendly plastic with black Versafine, and the two phrases were stamped onto tissue paper and adhered with glossy accents again.
Got a few more ideas for these stamps, so watch this space.......
Ingredients
Stamps- The Stamp Man Aspects of Design 62- Artistic elements
Inks- Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Ink Fired brick
Paint- Claudine Hellmuth Ranger Semi-gloss acrylic paint- Dash of Red
Stash- Canvas, white tissue paper, white gel pen, Glossy Accents, gold friendly plastic
She writes:
Welcome to the place where I share the arty, crafty, inky, stampy things that I make. Grab a cuppa, pull up a chair and feel free to look around
I may have mentioned that I've joined the Stamp Man design team once or twice....... well I had a play with some new Aspects of Design stamps - Artistic Elements. Ooh, it's a lovely set, just my sort of designs, and lots of images on the one set, so lots of scope for use which I like.
I painted a little square canvas with red acrylic paint, then used the scrolls on the edge of the little frame stamp in the set to stamp around the canvas in white Brilliance ink.
Canvases are impossible to stamp onto so I stamped the keys onto tissue paper in black and sponged some red Distress Ink over. I ripped the tissue paper and glued it onto the canvas using glossy accents.
The gold frame is stamped into gold friendly plastic with black Versafine, and the two phrases were stamped onto tissue paper and adhered with glossy accents again.
Got a few more ideas for these stamps, so watch this space.......
Ingredients
Stamps- The Stamp Man Aspects of Design 62- Artistic elements
Inks- Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Ink Fired brick
Paint- Claudine Hellmuth Ranger Semi-gloss acrylic paint- Dash of Red
Stash- Canvas, white tissue paper, white gel pen, Glossy Accents, gold friendly plastic
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Electrolux wants to make vacuums from marine debris
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Appliance maker Electrolux AB says it wants to make vacuum cleaners from plastic waste harvested from the world's oceans. The project, called "Vac from the sea," would solve two problems, according to the company's video (see below). First, it would...
Should your company use social media?
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
I recently traded emails with Craig Carrel, president of Team 1 Plastics Inc., an Albion, Mich., injection molder, about why he's using social media, including a blog that he updates personally. His blog is called the Plastics Pipeline, and he...
Concord, Mass.: Where bottled water is illegal
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
The New York Times has a story today about Jean Hill, the 82-year-old activist -- critics call her "a retiree with too much time on her hands" -- who managed to make it illegal to sell bottled water in Concord,...