A Touch of Grace

Archive for June 10th, 2009

Jun 10 2009

Blog Facelift

Published by Jerri Kay under Dry Embossing, Projects in General

Hi, it’s been a long time since I’ve had a chance to sit down and play. I’ve finally finished, for the most part, the store, A Touch of Grace - Paper Boutique, (a link is provided on the left sidebar under my picture). After completing the store I sat and drew the above drawing for my new blog banner. I was very pleased with the finished result. That is, until I tried to put it in my banner. Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite wide enough and it was too tall. Sooooo . . . . what you see in the banner is a cropped portion of the drawing. One of these days I’ll get it right!

I would like to say a heartfelt thank you to all of you for making the Mother’s Day Card Kit such a huge success. I do plan on future kits and promise not to limit the number. I was overwhelmed with the response, never dreaming it would be so incredible! From the bottom on my heart, Thank You!

A special thank you to my son, Stephen, for helping me with the design of the store and helping with the blog facelift. I couldn’t have done it without you, Stephen! I know it wasn’t easy working with all this pink . . . LOL!!!

A little about the store and what you’ll find: Tools and accessories I love to work with. Everything in the store is what I use in my designs from blending stumps, Gum Arabic, Pearl Ex, Ranger gold embossing powders, even my favorite heating tool, The Milwaukee Heating Tool that I use for my gold embossing. I’ve had my heating tool for 13 years, it’s still going as strong today as the day I bought it. You’ll find a very large selection of embossing stencils. Click on the picture to see the price, click on it again and it enlarges to approximately 4 x 6 for ease of viewing. Some of you have asked me about the dimensions of the stencils. They vary from one stencil to the next. If you see one you like (or two), please e-mail me and I’ll be happy to provide you with the dimensions. I do anticipate eventually getting that information on the site, but I’ve been away for a while and I’d like to get back to doing what I love most . . . designing.

I also have a large line of Pergamano products in the store. I’ve recently been introduced to Pergamano and love it! If you’re a Pergamano fan or just plain curious, click on Pergamano on the menu and then browse through all the different categories. The books and patterns are fabulous! I have the complete line of perforating and embossing tools, as well as paints and inks (what a surprise! . . . LOL!!!). All the adhesives you’ll find in the store are the adhesives I use on my designs; Zip Dry is definitely my adhesive of choice! It adheres quickly and leaves no wrinkling or buckling of the paper. I also carry several gold stickers in many patterns, including sentiments. These are no ordinary stickers, check them out, click on them twice to get the full size so that you can see them, the corners and borders are my favorites! Click here to see an example of gold stickers on a design.

As I post designs, I’ll try to feature a product or two and illustrate to you how I use it and why. At the bottom of this post under “Shopping”, I’ve provided links to the products I used in the design below for easy viewing. This stencil is an “L” shaped stencil approximately 3″ x 3″. A link is provided below.

After taking the photograph for the banner, I flipped the drawing upright and completed this design that will be framed and placed somewhere in our home, which is now filled with a few of my designs . . . LOL! I embossed and cut the four corners of the design and placed the drawing over Seagreen embossing paper. I mounted the panel on Turquoise embossing paper using Joy! Foam Pads and then placed the design on Carnation White embossing paper. All edges were finished with an 18K Gold Krylon pen. The bow was made with the Bow Easy. I drew the butterflies and adhered them to the card with Perga Kit 3D adhesive . . . love it for adding dimension on the top panel - it’s my latest great find. I want to show you how it’s used and why I think it’s fabulous for 3D effects on the top panel in a future post.