Hello, how are you? Today I am playing with a new stamp which I received as a birthday gift from a friend - MFT Fairy Best Friend Stamp. It is a lovely set with little fairies and flowers, and the most lovely sentiment. As they are small I immediately thought of using them on artist trading coins, as I make a lot of coins to swap.
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If anyone is new to the coins, I thought I would write the details on how to make them, or at least how I make them!
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Artist trading coins are always a 2.5 inch circle. You can choose what to cut it from, a lot of people recycle food packaging which is a wonderful idea. I usually like to watercolour mine so I cut them from watercolour paper. I am hopeless at keeping the backs clean so I use regular card to cut another circle to go on the back.
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On the back of the stamps you write your name, date, the title of your coin and the number of how many you have made. If you made 3 you would write 1 of 3, 2 of 3 etc. There are several stamps available which are made especially to stamp on the back of coins, but you can easily write all the information yourself.
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I began by water colouring a background, but of course you could use any medium. I love the sentiment “My Wish For You Is Every Good Thing” I stamped and then embossed it.
I then stamped some of the flowers from the set around the edges of the coin, and used glitter gelly pens to colour them.
After stamping and water colouring, I fussy cut the cute fairies, not forgetting to add magical glitter their wings. I adhered them to the coins using 3D sticky pads.You can use any theme to create your coins, the possibilities are endless.
They are now all ready for me to swap, I have made some inchies using this stamp set too.
I hope these little details have been helpful to anyone new to making coins.
Thank you so much for visiitng. Take care and stay safe xx
I would like to enter my My Wish For You is Every Good Things into the following challenges.