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robkaynel
1 Pea, 2 Pea, Red Pea, Blue Pea
PeaNut 530,045
November 2011
Posts: 863
Layouts: 151
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Are there products that you love & have come up with a thrifty way to recreate/fake/imitate?? I just made an attempt at recreating the Dear Lizzie 5th & Frolic gold spot vellum & a couple of variations. I think it turned out pretty great & used it immediately on a layout. It really didn't take too long & little tricks like this, just might help me stay frozen & use the things I love. Take a look at the fakes: gold vellum fakes
and the layout: layout
Please share your knock-offs with us! | |
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KBPea
Ancient Ancestor of Pea
PeaNut 395,153
October 2008
Posts: 9,916
Layouts: 135
Loc: Here
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Wow, you did a great job with that! I like to make my own embellishments, but I don't think any of them are quite good enough to be considered knock offs of other products.
I did recently DIY a transparency sheet by using a background stamp and some Staz-On ink on a piece of plastic from some embellishment packaging. | |
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JanGram
Lucy's Mom
PeaNut 63,309
January 2003
Posts: 45,132
Layouts: 1,336
Loc: Kansas City, MO
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I bought that paper and it is expensive! You did a great job. I just don't have time right now to do stuff like that. I would never get any scrapping done. |
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ScrapNatya
Is this an instrument of torture or communication?
PeaNut 1,583
October 1999
Posts: 7,447
Layouts: 399
Loc: Long Island
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OMG! I love this idea! I'm totally going to try it! |
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tpgirl
BucketHead
PeaNut 532,261
December 2011
Posts: 801
Layouts: 127
Loc: michigan
| Posted: 2/3/2013 8:31:10 AM
great idea..it looks great! |
It was fate that I would enjoy paper crafts...my name is Sharmon (like the TP)!
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anitatina
PeaNut
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September 2012
Posts: 342
Layouts: 52
Loc: San Francisco, CA
| Posted: 2/3/2013 8:32:27 AM
Good job! |
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tiffanyo
BucketHead
PeaNut 556,456
June 2012
Posts: 919
Layouts: 2
| Posted: 2/3/2013 8:42:04 AM
I was thinking of trying something similar with gold embossing powder. Does anyone know if the heat gun will melt the vellum?
This looks great but I don't have metallic paint  | |
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PurposeDrivenPea
PeaAddict
PeaNut 66,365
February 2003
Posts: 1,130
Layouts: 231
Loc: SW Michigan
| Posted: 2/3/2013 8:46:26 AM
I do this all the time. I usually buy papers that I can't recreate but I don't buy the embellishments because I make them myself to look just like the companies. |
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Caitlynsmommy
BucketHead
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October 2010
Posts: 838
Layouts: 67
Loc: in the trenches of motherhood
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I do this a lot and help run a blog where we share three tutorials a month AND fake our own kits using our stash! Come see us! Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog |
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Miss Kathy
PEAlicious
PeaNut 309,431
April 2007
Posts: 328
Layouts: 1
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tiffanyo, I've never embossed on vellum but I've seen other layouts where it has been done, and it looks great. | |
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alone_inacrowdedroom
What are you looking at?
PeaNut 477,798
August 2010
Posts: 1,386
Layouts: 47
| Posted: 2/3/2013 9:34:31 AM
That's such a great idea! You did a great job with the DL vellum. I have one piece that I'm hoarding - it rang up as the price of a regular sheet of paper at A's (not sure what the price is supposed to be) and I wish I would have gotten at least 5 more pieces. |
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cengland
AlienGreenPea
PeaNut 508,466
May 2011
Posts: 529
Layouts: 130
Loc: Sweden
| Posted: 2/3/2013 10:50:09 AM
Tiffanyo - One of the GG showed heat embossing on vellum in a video last week so it seems to work. I haven't tried it myself but vellum is pretty durable. | |
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tiffanyo
BucketHead
PeaNut 556,456
June 2012
Posts: 919
Layouts: 2
| Posted: 2/3/2013 10:58:10 AM
Clearly I am behind on my Garden Girl videos! Thanks for the replies ladies. | |
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waratah
Gone Walkabout
PeaNut 4,068
April 2000
Posts: 9,390
Layouts: 214
Loc: Aussie in SC. USA
| Posted: 2/3/2013 11:32:47 AM
Looks great!
I've done it a couple of times, not recently, but I had been thinking of recreating some valentines embellies in the last couple of days. |
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Artfulscrapbooking
PeaNut
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November 2012
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Dani
StuckOnPeas
PeaNut 6,587
September 2000
Posts: 2,095
Layouts: 10
Loc: Southern Louisiana
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I have been waiting forever for this to come back in stock. After seeing this post, I tried heat embossing on vellum and it worked great! Just remember to do it quickly and keep that gun moving because the vellum will melt. I have a picture on my instagram if any one would like to see how my sheets turned out.
dani_nelle is my instagram user name. I wish I knew how to link. |
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