Design Guide with Judi Watanabe 008 TV Weekly.com, Inc.
A bangle a day! Judi is always looking for new surfaces to stamp on and she s found a great new canvas. Actually, it s not canvas at all, it s wood. There s no sanding involved, no priming, no prepping. These bangles are ready to go... dip em, dunk em, or dye em no matter what...they end up bangle-icious! FEATURED PRODUCTS JudiKins Diamond Glaze Glass Beads Gothic Bollio Stamp Dots Rubber Stamp Butterflies & Flowers Background Paint Brush Permanent Black Ink Blank Metal Inkpad Snappy Tray Permanent Ink Cleaner DIYBangles.com Unfinished Wooden Bangles Flat exterior Dome exterior Pentagon exterior SUPPLIES Acrylic Paint in the following colors: Quinacradone Gold Turquoise White Metallic Paint Markers Blue Green Copper Purple Violet Re-inker Prussian Blue Re-inker Metallic Gold Re-inker tools Non-Porous Paint Palette Foam Brush Bijou Beadery FLAT EXTERIOR BANGLE 1 Squeeze a small amount of Quinacradone Gold acrylic paint and Turquoise acrylic paint next to each other on a non-porous paint palette Judi uses a scrap of shrink plastic as her palette. Load the foam brush with both paints at the same time and paint the outside of the Flat Exterior Unfinished Wooden Bangle from DiyBangles.com. The Bangles are available in several different sizes. Let the outside dry and then paint the sides and the inside of the bangle. Judi lets her bangles dry on a coffee mug tree. 008 TV Weekly.com, Inc. 1
Ink one panel of the Gothic Bollio rubber stamp from JudiKins with black permanent ink, also from JudiKins. This ink comes in a bottle. Because this permanent ink dries rather quickly, Judi recommends that you re-ink a blank metal pad before each stamping session. Place the Gothic Bollio rubber-side up on the work surface and roll the Bangle along the Bollio. The Bollio is 9" long. The circumference of the Flat Unfinished Wooden Bangle is 9½". Re-ink a portion of the Gothic Bollio and touch the unstamped portion of the Bangle to the inked Bollio to complete the image. Let dry. 3 For the final stamped layer, squeeze a very small amount of Metallic Gold from a re-inker bottle onto the plastic palette. Spread the ink out with your finger. Tap the Dots Rubber Stamp from JudiKins into the gold ink and stamp onto the painted Bangle. Reink and stamp Dots image several more times around the Bangle. Let dry. The stamping order of Steps and 3 may be switched if you prefer. 4 To seal the Bangle, squirt a small amount of Diamond Glaze from JudiKins on to the Bangle and spread a thin layer with your finger along the entire Bangle. Judi added one more layer of dimension by sprinkling tiny Glass Beads from JudiKins over the wet Diamond Glaze. Be sure to work over the Snappy Tray to catch all those itty-bitty beads.
DOME EXTERIOR BANGLE 1 Paint the Bangle. Squeeze about a quarter-size circle of Diamond Glaze onto the plastic palette. Add one drop of Violet dye-based reinker and a very tiny drop of Prussian Blue dye-based re-inker to the Diamond Glaze. Mix together slightly with a paint brush from JudiKins. Paint the outside of the Dome Bangle. Hang on a coffee tree mug to dry and then paint the inside of the Bangle. Let dry. Scribble about a 10" line of green metallic marker onto the plastic palette. Add a scribble of blue metallic marker over the green. Ink a second panel from the Gothic Bollio with the blue/green marker mixture. Place the Gothic Bollio inked-side up on the work surface and roll the painted Dome Bangle along the Bollio. Ink a portion of the image a second time and stamp the final ½" of the Bangle. Let dry. 3 Add a thin layer of Diamond Glaze with your finger to seal. If desired, sprinkle tiny Glass Beads from JudiKins be sure to work over the Snappy Tray for an embedded enamel-look on this Bangle. 3
1 PENTAGON BANGLE Paint the Pentagon Exterior Bangle with a copper metallic paint marker. Paint the 5 flat pentagon areas on the Bangle with a purple metallic paint marker. Let dry. Ink a portion of the Butterflies & Flowers Background stamp from JudiKins with Black Permanent Ink choose your favorite areas on this large stamp. Place inked stamp rubber-side up on work surface. Press one of the flat pentagon portions of the Pentagon Bangle on the inked stamp. Re-ink the stamp in a different area and stamp the second flat pentagon on the Bangle. Continue re-inking and stamping until all 5 flat pentagon areas have been stamped. 3 Paint the stamped images with white acrylic paint. Let dry. Add a thin layer of Diamond Glaze to each of the flat pentagon areas and bead those areas only with tiny Glass Beads from JudiKins. 4
Tribal Carving Judi didn t paint this Pentagon Bangle at all. She stamped a portion of a panel from the Gothic Bollio in each of the pentagon areas of the Bangle with Black Permanent Ink and then carved highlighted areas with a craft knife for a primitive tribal look. Diamond Glaze sealed the deal. Faux Fur No, it s not fur of any kind, but it is an animal print paint the Flat Bangle with white or cream acrylic paint, inside and out and then stamp with the Animal Print Bollio zebra panel and black permanent ink. A thin layer of Diamond Glaze seals things up and you re ready to go wild! Congratulations! You ve just completed your project, but the fun doesn t stop there! Be sure to stop back by Plum & Verdigris every week for more exciting new twists on jewelry making! RUBBER STAMPS Gothic Bollio and Dots JUDIKINS www.judikins.com Diamond glaze & glass beads DIYBANGLES.com www.diybangles.com UNfinished wooden bangles Flat Exterior, Dome Exterior and Pentagon Still Photos: C.R. Bostick Mark Viergutz Layout: Reneé Michaels 008 TV Weekly.com, Inc.