Welcome back to Magenta Super Saturday. Today I’m doing another joint post with Dianne
Johnson featuring Magenta’s new ATCoins.
You can see our post on the Magenta blog here and you can see all of
Dianne’s coins on her blog here.
Have you signed up for the ATCoin swap yet? I think it will be so much fun to receive
these coins in the mail from someone I’ve never met. There are still a few days left to sign up
and you can read about the whole swap here.
I’ve been having so much fun with these coins – they are really kind of
addictive.
I continued my Christmas theme on my next two
coins.
I started by sprinkling Lagoon,
Raspberry, Turquoise and Jade Nuance powder on the smooth side of watercolor
paper and the spraying with water. I purposely
left some white spaces.
When the paper was dry, I positioned “Peace, Love and Joy”,
a stamp from Magenta’s new stamp collection, on an area of the paper that
contained some white space. Before
stamping I used anti-static powder over the surface of the paper. Then I stamped with VersaMark and embossed with Judikins Detail Gold embossing powder. I die cut the
image with a 2 ½” circle die. I ran the
edge of the coin across the VersaMark ink pad and then embossed the edge with gold
embossing powder.
I stamped the coin stamp on a separate piece of cardstock
and die cut it with a 2 ½” die. I
colored with Prismacolor pencils and then outlined the flowers and stems with a
gel pen. I adhered it to the back of the
Nuance piece after the gel pen dried.
For my next coin, I used “Joy”, another beautiful Sally Penley
calligraphy stamp from Magenta’s new collection.
I used my MISTI to stamp it on a piece of
white cardstock with VersaFine Toffee ink.
When it was thoroughly dry, I highlighted the white space around the
sentiment with Tumbled Glass Distress ink.
I positioned the stencil above the sentiment then applied Twisted Citron
and Mowed Lawn Distress ink.
I moved the
stencil to the bottom of the sentiment and colored again.
After the ink dried I used green Prismacolor
pencils to add additional colors to the leaves.
I used Peacock Green (PC907), Grass Green (PC909) and Apple Green
(PC912). I also used Crimson Red (PC924)
on the berries. I used anti-static powder
on the image and then put in back in my MISTI.
I re-stamped “Joy” over the original image with VersaMark and embossed
with Wow Metallic Copper embossing powder. (I embossed after inking the stencils, so ink
wouldn’t distort the sparkle of the embossing powder.) I die cut the image using a 2 ½” circle die. I
also highlighted the edge of the coin by running the edge across the VersaMark
pad and then embossing with the copper embossing powder.
For the back of the coin, I stamped the ATCoin stamp on a
piece of white cardstock. I colored with
Prismacolor pencils and highlighted with a gel pen. I die cut it with 2 ½” die and adhered it to
the stenciled piece. For the last step,
I used Christmas Red Stickled on the berries around "Joy" which added some sparkle.
The coins work well for almost any image, large or
small. You don’t have to put the whole
image on the coin; they look great with a portion of the image on the coin,
too. I hope you will give it a try and
consider joining the swap.
Magenta products used:
Other products used:
Distress Inks (Tumbled Glass, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn)
Prismacolor Pencils
Stickles
Judikins Detail Gold Embossing Powder
Wow Metallic Copper Embossing Powder
