Tammy Tutterow

Tutorial: UTEE Faux Porcelain Mother's Day Card

I have a new tutorial posted today on the Ranger Ink site!  You can find it on the Ranger site in the project section: http://rangerink.com/?ranger_project=faux-porcelain-utee-mothers-day-card.  I hope you will stop by and take a look!

Papillon UTEE Pendant

This post has been moved to my new website.  You can now find it here: http://tammytutterow.com/2011/12/papillon-utee-pendant/.

Thanks!

Tammy

Curiosities Charm Necklace featuring UTEE Shrink Charms

A while back I shared a pendant I made using shrink plastic and UTEE.  Today I am sharing another shrink art and UTEE piece that I like to think of as the mother of all charm necklaces!  I made this piece for CHA-Summer for the Ranger booth and just got the ok to blog and share it.  It has been killing me to not share it!

When I was working on samples for CHA, I had an assignement to work with Shrink Art Film.  I hadn't used it since I was a kid playing with Shrinky Dinks in the kitchen.  The second I stamped, colored, cut, and shrunk my first shape I was hooked all over again.  There is just something that feels like magic while watching Shirk Film do its thing.

Not only was I shrinking, I was also dipping.  Dipping?  Oh yeah, dipping my little shrink charms in UTEE.  I had been talking with Tim Holtz about Shrink Film when he shared a tip with me about dipping charms in melted UTEE.  He told me I would love the result.  Love was an understatement!  I was wow'd and amazed and totally addicted.  Doesn't it remind you of art glass?

When I say I stamped every single stamp I own on shrink film, it would not be an exageration.  I made charms for days.  I simply could not stop.  After I made a charm out of every stamp, I looked at what I had done, and while they made me super happy, I wondered what to do with them all.  I am pretty sure every single sample I sent to the show had a UTEE shrink charm on it.  Still I had a huge pile of them so I decided and hodge podge junk charm necklace would do the trick.  So there it is, a necklace chock full of total randomness.  It is quite a curious thing!

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Bitty Grunge CMS089 and Curiosities CMS104

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Mini Classics CMS062

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous The Girls CMS020 and Hero Arts Printers Type Lower Case.

Stamp Set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Purely Random CMS088

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Bitty Grunge CMS089

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Oddities CMS083 (I think this is my favorite one!)

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Mini Classics CMS062

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Visual Artistry Stamps: Life's Possibilities

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Curiosities CMS104 and Hero Arts Printers Type Lower Case

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Oddities CMS083 and Curiosities CMS104

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Mini Classics CMS062

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Curiosities CMS104

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Mini Classics CMS062

Stamp Set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Purely Random CMS088

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Bitty Grunge CMS089

Stamp Set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Purely Random CMS088

Stamp set: Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz Visual Artistry Stamps: Lost and Found

Intrigued? My plan is to do a tutorial for Tuesday to share how I made these.  I might even bust out the video camera and do it as a video!  So if you love this look and want to know more, Tuesday is the day to be here!

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While you are waiting. . . a peek at the UTEE Heart in Hand Pendant

While you are waiting for me to pick a number and count through comments (why oh why doesn't Typepad number comments?) I thought I would share a little eye candy.

You know it is not like me not to share details of how I made something, but this time I am.  I am working on a tutorial (and maybe a video) to post about Ranger's Shrink Plastic and UTEE.  So hopefully you won't mind too much that I don't share the details today.

I shared a quick peek of the plain shrink version of this pendant in my last post.  I love that version, but I really, really love this one.  I love the shape and dimension that the UTEE adds.  I hope that you can see in the photos just how glasslike the finished piece is.  It reminds me so much of the look of blown glass or lampwork.

I will be back soon with the winner of the bag so if you are hoping to win it, keep those fingers crossed!