Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Information on water-retaining plants, marbleizing fabric, and using glitter products on home décor items will be the featured topics on "Creative Living" 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday and noon on Thursday. (All times are Mountain.)
Curt Jaynes will show some new products on the market for water-retaining plants, including a polymer that's also good for gardens, lawns, trees and shrubs. His business is GardenSource Nursery and Landscaping in Portales.
Evelyn Terhune is the owner of Ozark Crafts in Gilbert, Ark., and she's going to show how to use ordinary shaving cream and acrylic paints to create a marbleized effect on fabric which can then be used for a variety of projects.
Barbara Trombley is President of Art Institute Glitter, Inc., and she's going to show how to use various glitter products to decorate plates, ornaments, books, candles, candle holders and even tissue boxes. She is from Cottonwood, Ariz.
Information on making jewelry with safety pins and beads and making flowers with wire-edged ribbons will be the featured topics on "Creative Living" noon on Tuesday and 2 p.m. on Saturday. (All times are Mountain.)
Pat de Santis will demonstrate making various pieces of jewelry using colorful safety pins and beads. She is with Wrights in West Warren, Mass.
Using a variety of wire-edged ribbons, Helen Gibb will demonstrate making a folded rose, a tea rose, carnations, poppies, gardenias and more. Gibb is an author, designer and teacher from Louisville, Colo.
Marbleizing fabric using shaving cream
Materials:
Technique 1 (for defined colors):
Put a few squirts of shaving cream on your craft sheet and spread to make about 1/4 inch thick. Place a few drops of color on your shaving cream. Using your straw or skewer, cut the color through your shaving cream until well marbleized. (Think of cutting chocolate through a marble cake). Gently place your fabric on top of the shaving cream and pat gently to apply the color. Lift fabric off, scrape the excess shaving cream off with your scraper. Blow dry, then heat set your fabric using a hot iron and press cloth.
Technique 2 (for pastel background)
Swirl color into a pile of shaving cream. Using your tongue depressor, apply the shaving cream, then remove the excess with your plastic scraper. This makes a good background to be embroidered on or appliquéd over. Blow dry, then heat set using a hot iron and press cloth.
Technique 3 (great to "fussy cut")
Completely blend a small amount of paint into a mound of shaving cream to create a pastel color. Spread out the shaving cream to be 1/2 inch thick. Using the same or other colors, dot bits of color into your shaving cream and marbleize as in technique 1. If you are creating petals or leaves, add streaks of dark paint, then pull out to create veins. Blow dry, heat set, then cut into desired shapes for your project. This is beautiful when marbleized with glitter paint to create a holiday or festive look.
"Creative Living" is produced and hosted by Sheryl Borden. The show is carried by more than 118 PBS stations in the United States, Canada, Guam and Puerto Rico and is distributed by Westlink, Albuquerque.
