Brilliant Paper Clips

One of the best things about being an artist is that you love to personalize *everything*...including those basic, plain Jane office supplies you may use in your day-to-day activities. 

Collection of decorated paper clips by Martice Smith II

Brilliant Paper Clips
by Martice Smith II

Supplies used:
*Gelli printed papers

*Triple thick brilliant brush on gloss glaze
*Paintbrush
*Giant paper clips
*1/4 inch wide ribbon (cut in 12 inch strips)
*Hot glue gun

I created a celestial background using Irresistible colored texture spray in wedding dress (white) and two generous layers of Sheer shimmer spritz in Gold (Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko).

RubberMoon stamps used:

RubberMoon stamps: (top to bottom) RubberMoon Alphabet, Bamboo, Large Fern, Dogwood Blossoms, Panda

Cut out circles from gelli printed papers AND the celestial background. Traced around a small bottle OR you can use a circle punch...which is so much quicker to use!

These will be the "fronts" of our paper clips.

Brush on a 2 coats of Triple Thick Brilliant Gloss Glaze. (I love this stuff!) It's very glossy and smooth to the touch. Let each coat dry for 2 minutes before adding the next. Very similar to resin and it intensifies every color it comes in contact with.

Brush on gel medium to the opposite side of the "fronts" and join them with the "backs" (celestial background).

Stamp images with StazOn solvent inks in Jet black & Emerald City (Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko).  

Tie a bow with ribbon. Make sure the rounded edges of the paper clips are pointing DOWN. Add hot glue to keep everything in place.

Look! Aren't these cool or what?! I love how each one is unique and charming. Which one do you like?

For other embellishments:
-Dot on some Americana 3D Gloss Enamels Transparent Glass Writer in Green and Yellow,

-Draw with Craft Twinkles in Silver and Christmas Red (DecoArt),

-Paint the circles with acrylic paint. None of those painful paper cuts are allowed here!

Now you can say 'Bye-bye' to those boring paper clips. Happy creating!