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Secret Garden Pendant by Jana Ewy

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011


We haven't featured Jana in a while and since CHA is just around the corner and I'll get to meet up with her again, I wanted to share this beautiful pendant designed by her featuring her stoneworks techniques.

This piece is called Secret Garden.  I love the name...so peaceful...yet the richness of the reds makes it so vibrant and colorful too!



More of Jana's designs can be found in her etsy store:  Just Bananas

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FRIENDLY PLASTIC TV- New Show – Alcohol Ink and Friendly Plastic Spring Fling Earrings

Friday, April 30th, 2010
I thought this month I would make a video based on my recent demo on Cool2Craft Live last Monday.

Alcohol inks are one of the most versatile mediums I own.  The way their colors dance on the Friendly Plastic really gives you lots of opportunities to create customized sticks and sparks the creative juices!  That's a good thing huh???





After I uploaded the video, I realized that I didnt give finishing instructions to the earrings. OOPS!

Attach jump rings into each of the holes.  Attach an earring wire to one of the jump rings.  You can add beads to the earring wire if desired.

I also attached a swarovski crystal danglie to the opposite end.  I like movement and the crystal I think adds a nice touch.

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Katie Argyle’s explorations in Friendly Plastic

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
They say that necessity is the mother of inventions.  So read how Katie Argyle challenged herself to create a discontinued Friendly Plastic color.  She relates:




I tracked it down at my local stamping supply shop, Heather's Stamping Haven, (here's her website, and her blog), and was thrilled to discover many colours. I kept myself to the plan (always tough) and purchased Lemonade to try to make yellow and upon consultation, Ginger to create brown. Sad to say but brown is another friendly plastic colour that's come and gone! BROWN?! yep. When I saw gold cobra go, well that was sad, but to think metallic brown would go too? It's still a mystery to me about the foils on the surface of fp (more on this in later posts as I may have found something to do about that as well!) but you have to cope with what you've got or innovate and I am 














There was a time that you could get flat yellow friendly plastic.
Happy were the fairy wands, bee stripes and bright yellow suns I made from it.
Alas, I have only bits and pieces of it that I covet, saving them for use in a special project designated to happen "some day". Friendly plastic never had a metallic yellow to my knowledge. Why? I have no idea. Yellow must be hard to get right or must be unstable or something. Yellow, being a primary colour, would seem to be a colour you would expect to find in a friendly plastic artist's toolkit. It just ain't so. One day I was lamenting this fact to someone who had a solution for me. Make my own yellow.


What?


How?


An aside here: I am a friendly plastic purist. I have never been interested in trying to make my plastic look like glass or marble or whatever. I want it to be shiny happy plastic. It's what it is and I love it that way. I have never sought to change it ever so taking this advice was tough for me. But I love yellow and I need yellow and now I need brown too so I may as well change and adapt. As a human being this is what we've done for millenia and so I convinced myself that it would be okay.


So I set out on a search for Alcohol Ink.
Alcohol Ink faq here


 innovating.


I opened the bottle and let the liquid land on the surface. The ink has a long needle-like nozzle/nose and I pushed it all around my plastic with the side of the nozzle while it was wet, and then if there was a spot where I thought there should be more I put more. I waited until it dried then tried to rub it off with my finger. A little came off so I let it dry longer. We're talking a couple of minutes. Nothing more. I chose flat metallic white as my base and the yellow really showed. I tried some yellow on a piece of orange copper and it made it a yellowy-orange. I liked it but it didn't change it enough for me for what I wanted to make this time round. But being able to slightly alter colours and get variations is very important to some of my plans for fp. Next I did the same process with Ginger on flat metallic white. I did get a good brown. Yay!


And for my first try I made these things with my altered whites...



Yellow Easter Chick


































Pin and Earrings




Monkey Juggler Pin













































So the colour seemed permanent on the plastic before I cooked it up in the toaster oven. After it baked I tried to rub it off again and it didn't budge. I'm not sure how it will do over time. I don't know if the colour will fade or flake or what. I was using sharpie markers on friendly plastic ages ago and when I first wrote on the surface it seemed great. Permanent. But overtime it faded to a purpley tone and it sort of spread out, it diffused within the plastic somehow and so the writing that seemed so legible when I first made it turned fuzzy and faded. We'll see what happens to the ink as time goes by. So far, so good. The heat of the oven didn't obviously change it.


Now the only thing is the plastic breaks white. Like the foil, the ink sits on the surface and when disturbed the plastic's main colour shows through. It's not necessarily bad, or anything, you just have to figure out how to use it to its best advantage. I suspect with the ink I could brush it into the cracks/seams where I find the white especially distracting. I am sure it would work and IF THAT WORKS... well. It never ends, one idea leads to the next, and it's why I am glad to be making fp things again.

Im glad too that Katie is once again working with Friendly Plastic.  I might add to Katies story that acrylic paint and pellets are a great combination to create specific colors you need in projects.  Check out our  YouTube videos at www.youtube.com/friendlyplastictv for a quick video on making custom colors.

Check out more of Katies work on her blog:  www.plasticmasters.blogspot.com




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Art Deco and Friendly Plastic by WolfCreek Designs

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Simple yet sophisticated! These are the words I would use to describe this lovely pendant by Shari Wallace of  WolfCreek Designs.  I don't know what it is....but I am soooooo drawn to the color orange recently!  Orange is a very trendy color now! As Sheri says "it has an art deco feel".  I agree!

Check out more of Shari's designs on Etsy by clicking here.

Also, do a search for "friendly plastic" on etsy and see all the other amazing artwork!

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Friendly Plastic – Cheaper than therapy!!!!

Sunday, September 13th, 2009
In these economic times, stress is something we deal with on a daily basis. Too much of it could just make you a crazy person! So....instead of spending your hard earned dollars on therapy...why not destress yourself and spend your money on something you are sure to enjoy, not only in the immediate future, but for years to come....get yourselves some "creative therapy!"
That's exactly what Jen Lowe and Peg Harper did! And I believe it worked! Read on:

Peg and I agreed we could sit and do this forever. Not just fun - but I think a bit of some kind of therapy involved here. So we wanted to show you the different looks you can get with the same stamp, same Friendly plastic - just using different colors and inking techniques. I used silver on this.....

And Peg used gold on hers....


How do you decide which one you like the best? LOL!
This next one is a much lighter impression - and I like it just as well


And these 2 are really deep impressions - with different inking techniques (above and below)
But all of these simply used alcohol inks, blending solution, 91% alcohol, stamps, and white Friendly Plastic strips.


And at $1.99 per strip - it really is cheaper than therapy!!!


OK, just one more night of ideas tomorrow and then on to something else!

I know we show alot of techniques with alcohol inks....they are about as versatile as the Friendly Plastic itself!!! Do you have a technique with alcohol ink that we haven't featured?? Send it to us and I'll send you a little bag o' goodies!!



























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