My take on making your own flairs tutorial

After checking out some online tutorials about homemade

 flair badges I decided to check it out for myself and relate my results.

I know you're excited.

I was.

Would you believe I had to buy a one-inch punch?

Isn't that crazy.

 I used my brand new one-inch punch and punched out 9 circles from some chipboard.
It was pretty thick chipboard - as I use them for my baby albums and
I like them sturdy.

 Glued 3 together to make the recommended thickness.

And then painted them gray.

As I made more due to some man-made disasters

I switched out to this less thick chipboard as the first one 

was threatening to break my punch.
I also decided to not paint them this time and honestly,
I'm okay with the "rustic" chipboard look.

 The less thicker chipboard with 3 glued still had the same thickness.

 I purchased some one-inch epoxy stickers at Hobby Lobby

 and I also had some glossy accents to test as well.

 I stamped some designs on regular pattern paper and used some

watercolors to make them pretty.

 Waited not so patiently for them to dry and added the expoxy sticker

and as you can see - it has the depth of a flair badge.

Below are my versions - I added die cuts, punched out labels too.

The one that says "its a girl" is glossy accent and really

you can't tell the difference.

The only fatal flaw is that you have to wait for it to dry.

Using a heat gun is disasterous and leaving it lay around can lead

to other types of catastrophes, such as laying stuff on top,

using a heat gun, and leaving your finger print as you poke it

to make sure its dry.

Just to name a few.

 The glossy accent was my 3rd try.

Just sayin.......

Above are my homemade flairs.

I will give this another whirl as I have some

other ideas in mind.

And below in a not so pretty photo - showing my badges

against the real deal.

They turned out pretty good and its nice to have the ability

to customize them.

As you will see below on a page.

The themed ones from Avacado Arts called my name -
actually screamed heritage.

As you know I adore heritage.
The black, grey, gold are lovely colors together
and they became the inspiration for this page.

 They are not as crisp as "real" flairs though the rustic-ness works well for this page.

Broke out my diecuts
And doesn't that photo make you swoon.
My great grandmother.

 And the doily.
Love the daintiness it brings.

I love how the badges worked out on this page, they really added flair.
yunk yunk.
If you give this awhirl, please share the results
I'd love to see them.

My great grandmother -as a young woman.
I have no idea how young - so I'm guessing maybe 20.
Its hard to tell back then.

The splatter of mist that's sort of covered up

Which is just the opposite of the post from yesterday.

You can do it -- no splats...

Still working through the Lawn Fawn supplies when a bottle of 

Mr. Huey arrived - and had to be tried.

You can kind of see it you look really really hard.

Its called Sunset.

And once splattered I thought it looked

well stupid.

Therefore it need to be covered up as best as could be.

And that explains the design.

Because I was quite liberal with the splats.

Took a stroll through M's and was drawn to the kraft jar (Recollections).

With Avacado arts bugs flying inside.

Then picked up the Webster Pages arrows.

Swoon.

And then there you have Annie & Owen rearranging the dirt.

Love it.

My entries for the Avacado Design Team tryouts

I didn't make it. And its all good. Win some-lose some.

So here's my card using their stamp sets.

There stamp sets are adorable by the way.

 I have trouble with cards. I don't know why but they baffle me and now I have to work on that skill.

I used the jar stamp from inkadinkadoo - and embossed the edges. And fussy cut the flowers for a bit of dimension.

I kept the inside simple.

Whooooooooo doesn't love owls.

I cut out and chopped down the tree from quickutz for it to fit and added some leaves from mulberry papers. Got carried away with the mists.

On the inside I used the mulberry paper and didn't like it - so I ripped it out and thought it added some texture along with more mists. Of course when I saw the word who - I went straight to the Who's song, "Who are you? who who who who." It really couldn't be helped.

And this sweet tea set worked totally perfect with this photo.

Love the Studio Calico papers and envelop and Dear Lizzy frames.

Anyway it was fun to do the challenges and work the stamps in. 

It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be and I love the outcome. 

I want to thank my pal Connie, check her blog out, she rocks the vintage and all

things country at Crafty Goodies for giving me a heads up.