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Soda Can Charms~Just Married

Amy Ford
Magic Stampin’ Bus
Newbies Stamping Team Designer 

This card was designed as an experimental piece, just to see if it could be done.  Yes, it can be done, but I can tell you it is a piece of art.  So much heart went into its design that I could never sell it!  It was developed using things you have around your home and stamping studios. Eyelets, wire, and.... SODA CANS!   

Supplies:

·        On The Road Again stamp set (The Stamping Studio)
·        India Black ink Pad (TAC)
·        Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils (Sanford)
·        Aqua Flow brush, fine tip (TAC)
·        Soda can, emptied and cleaned
·        Fiskars Craft & Rubber Scissors (for cutting soda can only)
·        Four (4) 1/8" silver eyelets (Making Memories)
·        Eyelet Took Kit (Making Memories)
·        Your favorite adhesive tool (Hermafix or MonoAdhesive)
·        Four (4) pieces black wire, cut to approx. 4" each (Artistic Wire Works)
·        Pop Dots, cut to fit soda cans
·        Heat tool (Marvy Uchida)
·        Transcendence Embossing Powder for dye inks (TAC)
·        Fiskars 1/16" Circle hand-held hole punch
·        Black cover weight card stock scraps
        o       1 cut to 3 1/4" x 1 1/4", bottom edge torn
        o       1 cut to 1 3/4" x 3/4", bottom edge torn
·        Bazzill Basics Card Stock- Flamingo Pink
        o       1 cut to 3/4" x 2"
        o       1 cut to 3 1/4" x 1"
        o       1 cut to 4 3/4" x 3 5/8"
·        Bazzill Basics Card Stock- Medium Yellow
        o       5 1/2" x  4 1/4"
·        White Card stock
        o       3 3/4" x 3 1/4", bottom edge torn
·        Small scrap for words 

Instructions:

1. Cutting along the seam of the coke can, open it, and wash & rinse thoroughly. 

2.  Stamp coke cans from 8 times on inside of coke can with black ink.  

3.  Apply Transcendence EP, and heat set.  Cut out using Fiskars scissors, and set aside. 

4.  Stamp car from set at center top of white card.  Refer to photo for placement of rendered watercolor application.  Write first initials of bride & groom and year of marriage on license plate.  Or just put JM04 for "just married" and year on it.   

5.  Punch 1/8" holes using "anywhere" hole punch.  Insert eyelets & set. 

6.  Put wire through holes, and "tie" knot using wire works tool at back of card.   

7. Using 1/16" hole punch, punch hole in top of coke cans.  

8.  Push wire through 2 coke cans per wire.  Tie "knot" using wire works tool. 

9.  Stamp "Just Married" on white CS scrap, layer on black scrap, and layer on small flamingo pink piece of CS. 

10.  Set at bottom right corner of car with adhesive. 

11.  Place flamingo pink CS in 3 1/4" x 1" at bottom and back of this piece, with 1/4" showing at bottom. 

12. Do the same with black CS in 3 1/4" x 1 1/4", letting some pink show. 

13.  Layer this piece on large flamingo piece CS. 

14. Finish by layering on medium yellow CS.  

Enjoy!

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