#mylar sheets

[lugosis]

i'm going to make all these designs as patches i'm just not sure which would be the best for the back

#tv and reanimator i made on canva using various cliparts and grandpa i traced from a tshirt design #i love stencil making and have a ton of unused mylar sheets and green fabric paint

[uispeccoll]

#MiniatureMonday #TinyTuesday

A Mushroom ABC. by Peter and Donna Thomas

For the beginning of summer, MiniMondays is going to have a series focusing on a small fraction of the lovely artists books by Peter and Donna Thomas!

For our book after a long weekend, we have some lovely illustrations of mushrooms in an ABC accordion book!

"Printed watercolors on one side of an accordion folded handmade sheet (50 x 150 mm.), shaped to resemble a mushroom. First and last folded leaves mounted on two paper boards, covered with gray paper, and also shaped as a mushroom. Title paper label on front cover. Issued in a slipcase covered with paper and with a mylar front cover that reveals the shaped binding."--Catalog

Peter and Donna Thomas are "book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work both collaboratively and individually; letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books." They have made over 100 limited edition books, often with Peter making the paper, and Donna doing the illustrations.

Check out more of Donna and Peter's books at Uiowa here.

--Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student

#Uiowa Special Collections #UIowa #Peter&DonnaThomas #ABC Book #ABC of Mushrooms #Mushroom #Mushroom Illustration #Accordion Book #Artists Books #Miniature Monday #scientific illustration #Watercolor #tinytuesday

[happysadyoyo]

Once again, this is @pillowspace's AU that I'm kinda going AWOL with. I just want to make something a little more cheerful after leaving Y/N struggling to get home last night.

Clone AU is being a bit prickly, but I think that's mostly cause I want to draw for it rn and I'm still in the throes of color separations whenever I have a spare moment on my tablet. But that'll be done soonish I think? By the end of the week for sure because I need to start making my mylar sheets soon.

Time Loop whump fic will likely be pecked away at throughout the day to deal with school stress. This is just a quick palette cleanser since to me HD Y/N is a bit in the middle personality-wise.

TL is a lot more extraverted and kind, and Clone is the one most likely to cause the DCA to experience the first animatronic heart attack if they ever spoke because every other word would be fuck. HD is one of those people who recognizes the struggle they're in, but they can also find the good moments and appreciate them all the more while giving the bird to everything making life actively harder for them and their little brother.

"You sure you're fine." Gretchen sounds doubtful, but you smile and keep working.

"Positive. Look, nothing really happened in the grand scheme of things, right? I'm not hurt."

"Your hand is bruised, and you had to cancel your cards," Gretchen says, and to prove a point, she grabs your hand.

You flinch, pulling back. "I made it home in one piece and nothing really valuable got stolen," you reply archly, shoving the last of the books towards your friend. "Go put these away. I need to check the computer room to make sure no one needs help."

"This conversation isn't over," Gretchen warns, even as she pushes the cart away. The library is fairly quiet at this point in the day, early in the afternoon, before school is let out and you all get inundated with kids and teens looking to kill a couple hours before their parents get home. It's the perfect time to make sure everything is clean and ready for kids to play.

The computer room is actually pretty quiet, though there is one brightly colored splotch of a person in the corner. You can hear them tapping slowly at the keyboard as you check each computer, wiping things down and logging out of a couple accounts. Eventually, you've made it to the corner with the stranger, struck by just how tall they are.

"Is everything all right?" you ask brightly.

"O-oh!" The stranger is clearly startled, so you take an extra step back, just for safety. "Yes, sorry. I think we, I, signed up for an hour? Has time. passed that fast?"

"No, sorry. There's a timer in the corner, here." You tap at the monitor helpfully. "I didn't mean to confuse you. I just wanted to know if you needed any help."

The stranger doesn't reply, instead fidgeting with what you're guessing is a scarf around their face. "Is your hand okay?" They ask, and you quickly withdraw it, tucking it close to your chest. "I don't mean to pry. It just looks painful."

"Ah, well." You grimace, remembering that Gretchen is going to be on you the moment she's done with her returns. It's easier to hide in the computer room, and besides, what's the likelihood this stranger will talk to her? You decide to sit, still achey from last night and exhausted from a lack of sleep. "I was mugged last night."

"You were what?" The horror in their voice is less grating than it was with your friend, and when you smile, it just feels tired, not forced. "You can't possibly be okay after that!"

"I kind of have to be. It's making some of my duties today a little harder though. I can't exactly balance heavy boxes with this hand, and my coworkers are sweet, but if I don't do my work, I think they're going to send me home." You curl and uncurl your hand slowly, biting the inside of your cheek to keep from grimacing. "And I need the money, so. Here we are, you know?"

"Here we are," they agree, a bit distractedly. They pecked at the computer a little longer, apparently thinking as they suddenly turn back to you. "I can help you move those boxes. I-if you'd like I mean."

"Oh?" You pause, thinking. "Oh, uh. Sure! If you're sure that is. I --- yeah, it'd be really helpful, but you don't have to. You signed up for the computer and oh fuck, I've just started spilling my guts out to you."

They flinch when you curse, muttering something in the middle of your rambling before holding up one gloved (gloves indoors?) hand. "It's all right. We, I, like to help. Just point us in the right direction."

"Okay," you saw, drawing the word out until it's more a sound than a word. "You can help this time. But I'm going to have to do something in return."

"That's not really---"

"Nuh uh," you interrupt, wagging a finger (from the unbruised hand), in front of their face. "Fair's fair, and if you're helping me, I'm helping you. Consider this a rain check."

"Fine," they say, turning to log out of the computer. When they stand, you feel very, very small. "Lead the way, Mx. Librarian."

"That's Librarian Clerk to you," you say, a little teasingly. You do take point, walking through the library to where you and Gretchen had packed away the Halloween decorations. "And what do I call you?"

"Sun," they say, and they take the first of three boxes without so much as a grunt of exertion. Tall and strong. If you were a lesser person, you would be jealous. Maybe you are anyway.

"Sun," you repeat, and it's an unusual name for this unusual not-quite-a-stranger. You lead them towards the back, fiddling with your keys to find the one for the storage closet. "It's very nice to meet you."

"It's nice to meet you too."

#human disguise au #dca #fnaf dca #fnaf daycare attendant #daycare attendant

[aloysiavirgata]

Mulder remembers Scully’s birthday. Any time Pre-IWTB

“Oh my god,” she says in horror. She covers her mouth with her hands, appalled and overwhelmed.

“You accused me of never remembering last year,” Mulder says, attaching a final piece of tape to the HAPPY BIRTHDAY! banner across the back of the boardroom.

Scully turns in a slow, queasy circle. He has sprinkled the conference table with confetti, has put an enormous sheet cake emblazoned with HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPECIAL AGENT DOCTOR DANA KATHERINE SCULLY, MD in the center. The writing is bright purple and rather squished.

Balloons are tied to one chair. One of the balloons is a pink mylar tiara. It clashes violently with her hair.

“Mulder, this is supposed to be a budget meeting, why would you-“

“As I said, I want you to know I think of you.” He passes her a polyester satin sash reading BIRTHDAY GIRL!

“I’m going to get fired.” She sits down in despair, twisting the sash in her hands. It leaves cheap glitter on her skin.

“No, no,” Mulder soothes. “I told Skinner it was your birthday, he said a cake would be fine.”

Scully, numb, watches him set paper noisemakers at each place. She doesn’t even want to die. Dying now would make this her legacy. She wants the universe to unmake itself, to unravel back to the singularity of the Planck Epoch and do a better job.

“I’m going to kill you,” she says, soft and dreamy and detached. “Mulder, there are not even adjectives to describe the things I am going to do to your vital organs. Future archaeologists will marvel at my cruelty when they dig you up.”

He waves his hand, putting Capri Sun pouches on the table. “These are delicious, you ever have one?”

Skinner enters then. “Oh my god,” he says, staring.

Scully gives him a pleading look. “Sir, I never-“

“I should have known,” her boss says grimly. “I’ll cancel the meeting, Scully. And go home. I’ll deal with this.”

He glares at Mulder like a basilisk, a glare that would have disintegrated a lesser man.

“Sir,” Mulder says, blithely. He passes his boss a cardboard party hat.

“Oh my god,” Scully says again. She squeezes her eyes closed.

“Go home,” Skinner repeats, stern.

She leaves the room, slumps against the outer wall to collect herself.

“Thank you sir,” she hears Mulder say through the drywall. “She never would have taken a day off otherwise.”

Scully hears her boss chuckle then, hears Mulder’s laugh in reply. She smiles to herself as she stalks to the parking garage.

#xf fanfic #xfiles fanfic #msr #birthday #my fic #prompt

[makaira-art]

I was lucky enough to be near enough to take a road trip with some friends to view the solar eclipse in the path of totality!

Here are some shots I got on my DLSR:

Wrote about how the process went below the cut, if you’re curious:

Camera setup

Camera info: I used some second-hand old DSLR camera to get this shot. If you want to take a photo, try to find a camera with a electronic viewfinder/live view— I used a Nikon D200 which has an optical viewfinder that you cannot look through during the partial eclipse unless you want to laser concentrate the sun into your eyes. So, I had to keep trial-and-erroring photos then looking at the LCD screen’s playback to line up the shot during the partial eclipse. I accidentally broke part of my tripod 30 minutes into partial, so big shoutout to my friends for team effort helping me deal with that.

For protection: obviously, eclipse glasses for viewing the event. (Look away every so often for your own safety— it is the sun, after all). For the camera I used a solar filter Mylar sheet that I cut into a circle, glued to some cardboard I fitted into an octagon and slipped over my camera lens. That’s why everything except the sun is pitch black! I gave the camera a break from the sun by covering the lens up every few minutes, just in case. I use a special lens that I couldn’t fit a solar filter over, even if I spent $60+ on one. DIY for the win.

The lens: A 150-600mm lens. As I mentioned, my tripod had a little incident so I couldn’t stabilize it enough to use past 500mm without some serious motion blur, but around 150mm and 350mm the photos looked good enough for me. At this point I ripped off the tape on my optical viewfinder and the protective lens and took photos as normal. I kinda just set a fixed aperture with f-stop at 16 and ran with it. I think I also turned the ISO up. You’ll forgive me for not documenting the whole process of the sun and the entirety of totality— some things you just want to see with your own two eyes.

I am not a professional photographer, solar or otherwise, so don’t take what I say for what you should do, but everything seems to work, so if you are looking to photograph a solar eclipse, these are a few things to start with! Though, don’t break your tripod and make sure you can easily find the sun with an electronic viewfinder. Then you can just press your remote-shutter button and stare at the sun at the same time.

#solar eclipse #eclipse 2024 #eclipse #photography #not art #but like idk what I’m doing I just have my dad’s old camera #so cool #my photgraphy

[dream-puppy]

ARTIFICER, RIVULET & GOURMAND COOKIE BADGES!

💥Artificer💥

• Apple-Cinnamon cookie 🍪

• Image of artificer holding her spear

• LARGE button size (5.5cm x 5cm)

🩵Rivulet🩵

• Pink sugar cookie🍪

• Image of Rivulet with sprinkles on their mouth

• LARGE button size (5.5cm x 5cm)

🥞Gourmand🥞

• Peanut butter butterscotch caramel cookie 🍪

• Image of Gourmand enjoying a cookie piece

• LARGE button size (5.5cm x 5cm)

DETAILED PRODUCT INFO:

• Size: 5.5cm x 5cm

• Materials: Printed high quality paper, mylar protector sheet, button backing.

• Manufacturer: Me!

• Per unit: 1

#rain world #rainworld #crafts #artists on tumblr #artificer #rivulet #gourmand #my posts #my art

[dreg-heap]

I wonder if you could make a planar magnetic driver by sewing copper wire into a sheet of silk

Presumably you'd need to stiffen it with a resin like you would with a silk dome, it'd be tedious but you'd have more fine grained control over the stiffness of the diaphragm than you would by sourcing different thicknesses of mylar

[niennanir]

For the fanfic director’s cut: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Where in the world did you get Disney Princess stickers and a six pack of glitter glue anyway?” Steve demanded more exasperated than angry this time. Jamie tugged his lip in between his teeth, looking everywhere but at his father. Steve studied him carefully a moment before a knowing expression settled on his face and he turned back to Clint with narrowed eyes. “They were on sale!” Clint defended. “And they were purple mylar!” He held his arms out as if all of this were adequate explanation for everything. Bucky only tilted his head back, rolling his eyes at the ceiling.  All That Glitters - 2014

I'm going to preface this by saying I have a decade's experience as a professional nanny, five years experience as one of the most high demand teenage baby sitters on the suncoast and a side gig in which I successfully raised my kid brother while my mom worked seven shifts a week as a nurse.

So there was absolutely no excuse for the series of decisions that led to me handing my friend's two-year-old a pack of glitter stickers and art supplies before leaving him to watch cartoons while I made dinner.

He was a clever little guy, Nick, he was already at the complete sentences stage. This was a decade ago so I'm not using his real name, poor kid doesn't need that kind of humiliation. But my only defense is really that he was smart for his age and not at all prone to trouble. Toddlers are like the sea, you should never turn your back on them. And I knew this. So when I poked my head around the kitchen doorway to make sure he wasn't trying to scale the walls I should not have been at all surprised to find that he'd stuck most of a sheet of stickers to my coffee table.

Nick's mom was kind of freaked out about it, she kept apologizing. She didn't seem at all concerned that I had left her only son in front of the TV with 8 washable markers that smelled like gum and metallic stickers that were definitely a choking hazard. In retrospect she was a new mom and probably didn't realize at the time how badly I'd screwed up.

It took me the better part of an afternoon and most of a bottle of goo-gone to remove the stickers. As I was chipping off the last sticker I asked myself; What would Tony Stark do?

I got the sander.

It was a day for terrible mistakes, I guess. I did eventually get the stickers off and repaired the finish. I still have that coffee table.

Nick is still smarter than I am.

#thescrapwitch #coulson lives but the avengers might be the death of him

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will pass over Mexico, the US, and Canada.

A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon completely blocks the view of the sun for people in a narrow path across the earth’s surface. In a partial solar eclipse, the moon only partially blocks the sun, so it can be observed an area that is thousands of kilometers wide.

What Are the Dangers of Watching a Solar Eclipse?

Watching a solar eclipse without proper eye protection can cause vision loss, including blindness, due to burning of the macula, which is part of the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye that enables people to read and recognize faces. Some individuals mistakenly believe that it is safe to view a total eclipse without eye protection during the time when the moon completely blocks the sun. However, totality of the eclipse lasts only about 1 to 3 minutes based on geographic location, and bright sunlight suddenly can appear as the moon continues to move. Even a few seconds of viewing the sun during an eclipse can temporarily or permanently burn the macula. Once retina tissue is destroyed, it cannot regenerate, resulting in permanent central vision loss.

Safe Ways to Watch a Solar Eclipse

Exact times and locations of the upcoming solar eclipse can be found at science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/where-when/. Worldwide, 8 total solar eclipses will occur in the next decade.

Never view the sun or a total solar eclipse with the naked eye or by looking through binoculars, telescopes, or a phone camera. Sunglasses alone also are not safe. Make sure to supervise children using solar filters. Some safe ways to view an eclipse include

Direct viewing through shade No. 14 welder’s glasses

Direct viewing through aluminized Mylar filters: Aluminized Mylar plastic sheets can be used for viewing an eclipse but should be used only if totally intact, without any scratches.

Pinhole projector: Make a pinhole in a piece of cardboard; hold it in front of the sun just before the eclipse. With your back to the sun, focus the light going through the pinhole onto another piece of cardboard beyond the pinhole so that you see the sunlight focused onto the second piece of cardboard. As the eclipse occurs, you can see the focused sunlight become blocked by a dark circle (the shadow of the moon). Look only at the image on the paper. Do not turn around and view the eclipse with the naked eye.

If Vision Loss Occurs After Viewing a Solar Eclipse

Individuals with vision loss after viewing a solar eclipse should promptly visit an ophthalmologist, an eye doctor who can recognize symptoms and signs of solar burns on the retina. The diagnosis might be made on clinical evaluation or with diagnostic tests such as optical coherence tomography, a noninvasive imaging technique that can identify solar damage to the retina. There is no definitive treatment other than observation; sometimes individuals have partial recovery of vision.

The JAMA Patient Page is a public service of JAMA. The information and recommendations appearing on this page are appropriate in most instances, but they are not a substitute for medical diagnosis. For specific information concerning your personal medical condition, JAMA suggests that you consult your physician. This page may be downloaded or photocopied noncommercially by physicians and other health care professionals to share with patients.

#science #space #astronomy #physics #news #astrophysics

[torimwrites]

Writing Patterns (tag game)

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

I was tagged by: @applewillowstone Funny enough, the pattern is that these are literally all of the Stranger Things fics that I have written. I have 30 Marvel ones before these, but these were my last posted. Haha. 1. The week of Valentine’s day was always something that brought the cynic in Eddie out even more than usual. [Are you fa-fa-fa-fa-fallin' for me? - Mungrove] 2. It was the 3rd of December, Monday, and a week and three days since Steve showed up at Eddie’s to establish that they both liked each other. [I Will Dare - Steddie Part 4 in series] 3. When he finally graduated, nearly having to do senior year for a third time—thanks to Nancy Wheeler for tutoring him at the last minute—Eddie knew that he had to get serious and find a job that wasn’t selling drugs to the residents of Hawkins. [Talk Dirty To Me - Steddie *WIP*] 4. Eddie didn’t know what he expected, but it wasn’t Steve Harrington at his doorstep on Thanksgiving… [Dare Me - Steddie Part 3 in series] 5. Hawkins was in full Thanksgiving preparation with last minute grocery shopping, washing sheets at the laundromat for guests, running around and practically hitting Eddie’s van… [I Dare You - Steddie Part 2 in series] 6. Eddie went through the back entrance to the male strip club, making his way down the onyx and charcoal, mylar wallpapered hallway, past Murray’s office and staff bathroom, and into the dressing room. [A new religion that'll bring you to your knees - Steddie] 7. Eddie showed up at Tina’s ‘Halloween Bash’, holding onto his lunchbox of drugs, ready to sell and barter—decline anything less than the price he tells them, or raise it if they are being assholes—all while his ears suffered in ‘the realm of the cliques’ as they listened to music he did not fancy. [Dare - Steddie Part 1 in series] 8. Eddie was there to support Jeff, who was DJing that night; who was by no means gay, but had gotten the gig because Eddie was friends with the bartender that used to sell Eddie stock, back when Reefer Rick had been in jail. [Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight) - Steddie] 9. It wasn’t often that he went to an actual party, but, then again, it wasn’t often that he got invited. [No matter who's in the room (touch me in the way that you do) - MetalSandwich] 10. Eddie bounced and jangled into the video store in Hawkins. [Even in a crowded room (baby, it's just me and you) - Steddie]

#eddie munson #billy hargrove #steve harrington #stranger things #steddie #mungrove #metalsandwich #steddie fic #mungrove fic #metalsandwich fic #don't like don't interact #don't like don't read #ao3 writer #ao3 fanfic

[fchsadfa]

Gentle reminder to take care of yerselves

This is my design for the photo emulsion screen printing method. The morning was taken up with learning about the technique and doing a demo piece with rubylith, acetate, mylar, and black paper.

After lunch I got my design planned, the screen covered with emulsion and dried, made a good paper copy of the design with India ink and sharpie, tracked down the studio tech and got her to photocopy the design onto acetate, and did the exposure on the vacuum light table (fancy) and washed the screen.

The screen is drying and I maybe could have started printing in the evening studio time but I have no regrets about going to the free pizza and open mic night. Slight regrets about forgetting my contraband pizza slices in the studio.

Mild regrets about taking the advice of the drawing and painting people of adding more decoration to the line that was supposed to be the question mark after GREAT ART. The question mark is now a bit lost in the curlicues. But I could maybe paint it a contrasting colour after screen printing it?

ALSO this is the flat design. My vision for the finished product is a pop-up flip book sort of idea (hard to communicate in words but I can picture it in my head and am confident I can make it work materially). So the NOT GREAT, BOB bit would be hidden, folded behind the question mark panel. And then you pull the pull tab (which I intend to make the dot of the question mark), and it flips up to change the GREAT ART to NOT GREAT, BOB!

Fingers crossed that it prints well! I'm planning out how to print it in every colour of the rainbow. And scheming to get it into the campus store/ art gallery. The design is the size of a regular sheet of copy paper, so potentially jacket patches? Bags? Tea towels? T-shirts??

What do the people want, and how much are they willing to pay for it.

#calligraphy #hand lettering #screenprinting #silkscreen #mad men #tbh the NOT GREAT BOB bit is mostly an inside joke with me and my sister #but its her birthday soon so idk #apparently she doesn't want another apron so idk what I'm doing with the snowflake fabric #not mentioned: the fact that we melted a fan in the dark room bc it caught a thread from the curtains and the motor overheated

[carfuckerlynch]

also the fact that the fucking. those oily little seaweed snacks that are in those little hard plastic clamshell inside a mylar package. you know those. they make em in full size sheets. which are So

#odhran.txt

[dream-puppy]

Tips, Tools and Tutorials on Handmade Buttons

Hi again tutorial fans, this time we're doing BUTTONS!!

Buttons are pretty simple as a concept, but they can be hard to get into due to inaccessibility of materials and tools. Back in the early 2000s, you could get a badge-it at any toy store, but it's since gotten a lot harder to find quality badge makers!

When I was looking into badge makers, the three most important things for me were

Interchangable components (Different sizes and shapes, such as hearts!)

Reliability and sturdiness (Able to press consistent A-Grade pins)

Ease of use and repair (Non proprietary, that I can repair myself)

All of these qualities lead me to search around all of the possible stores I could find! Soon enough, my search lead me to an affordable machine that had EVERY single one of the specifications I needed above:

This is the We R Memory Keepers Button Press! [UK] [US]

The button press kit itself ONLY comes with the light blue, mid-sized button presser, and I bought the small and large sizes as add-ons! They also have a heart-shaped insert (which is arriving soon!) and a small rectangular insert which I haven't tried yet! Each insert kit comes with: 5 Button press fronts & backs, a die cutter of the correct size to use to cut out your button papers (also fantastic for stickers!), and the top and bottom inserts for your button maker.

This tutorial [X] by one of the Design Team members helped me so so much with setup and getting started, however, there are a few very important things I'd like to mention about using this button press.

THINGS TO NOTE & TROUBLESHOOTING

1. This machine produces incredibly accurate and consistent results. HOWEVER. It's EXTREMELY important that in order to do so, the top and bottom components are properly aligned. I've misaligned them a couple times, and it's caused the machine to stick/mess up my buttons, however, this is 100% user error on my part.

Here are some images of the proper alignment:

I am standing on the left side of the machine

The A + A arrows are aligning with each other, with the arrow on top of the machine AND with the large presser mechanism on the bottom

I can only rotate the upper component counterclockwise to reach the B alighment

B + B alignment align with each other, the arrows and the small presser mechanism.

This has given me the best and most consistent pins every single time!

Please note: If your machine becomes stuck, don't panic! Try to gently pry apart the stick pieces with something by sliding it into the gap. It should come unstuck! Don't try to force the presser down too hard, on an unstable surface, or beyond it's capacity. I've also found that anything thicker than paper, mylar or cellophane does not pass easily through the machine. This is standard, and there are lots of pretty cellophanes and mylar sheets that won't jam your machine! I haven't tried fabric yet, however, I think should the fabric you choose be thin enough, it might be able to pass through!

These are all that I've run into so far while using the machine, however, if you're struggling with something please send me an ask about it! I'll see if I can help you out :)

BUTTON MAKING

1. DIGITAL

Similar to my Sticker Tutorial, First you need to prepare your Digital Workspace!

Firstly, locate the Unit of measurement of your drawing software (I'm using CSP), and change it to mm. This will give you the ability to see the size of your stickers more easily.

Set the custom size to A4, or set the width and height manually to [W] 210.00 / [H] 297.00. This will make it easier to compare sizes in real life, especially if you have a piece of A4 white paper beside you!

FOR PRINTING: Always choose a Resolution/DPI 300 or higher. Again, I prefer drawing in vectors because it allows you to resize it without quality loss! Please check out the link above to see my printing preferences and hardware!

Here's a free template just for you :)

Here's a small photo example of how I press the buttons! Please play close attention to the alignment of the pressing inserts. First, I align the top and bottom inserts to the A position. Then, I place down: the button top component, the image I want for my button and then the mylar sheet on top, then PRESS! then, I turn the base and top inserts to the B position, and add the pin back with the safety pin side facing down, inside the insert. Then, I turn the insert back into alignment, and PRESS again! Then, TADA! a whole new button!

2. OTHER ASSORTED METHODS

Ok sorry I wasn't sure what to call this section lol, but there's a few other different methods that you could try! If you don't have a button press, or cannot afford one, here are a few other methods I have tried when it comes to making pins!

Many craft stores sell Pin/Boutonniere backs for badges and pins! I came across them in my local craft stores childrens section, and they worked an absolute treat on the back of my pins!

I've made an assortment here of Resin, Shrinky Dinks and even Wooden/Acrylic pour pins that I absolutely love! With these types of pins, you could wrap the wooden ones with with patterned fabric or felt, add a layer of holographic vinyl and more! These options are significantly cheaper, as I picked up some shrink plastic for like 4 bucks, and some pin badges for 2 bucks!

Other than that, the world is your oyster! No matter what you decide to create, I'm sure it'll be great! :3

#craft tutorial #small artist #small business #crafts #artists on tumblr #my posts #tutorials #buttons #we are memory keepers

[rock-and-roll-hell]

April 28, 1977

Love Gun Photo Sessions (Rainbow)

Barry Levine's Studio - Los Angeles, California

📸 Barry Levine

"We experimented a lot with everything. That's how the series with the wildly multicolored, shimmering mylar background happened. It was 1977 and we had to do a Love Gun promotional shoot. I set it up in my studio and I wanted to get a series with different colors in the background because we had been using a lot of blacks and greys up to that point. I got these colored mylar sheets and reflected some plain white light from them, sometimes adding just a little bit of blue gel to the mix. I pulled the light a little out of focus because the patterns on the sheets were very odd, and I wanted to get really vibrant colors and images from the mylar. These shots appeared on magazines and newspapers all over the place. Some mylar shots, as well as other images I photographed, were included on the cover of KIϟϟ' World Tour 77-78 program. If you look really carefully, you can tell that those same shots were the photo models for the gatefold etchings inside Double Platinum, as well as the solo album covers, although we didn't have either of those projects in mind when we decided to shoot that day." - Barry Levine

#kisstory #kiss #1977 #love gun #ace frehley #paul stanley #peter criss #gene simmons #kiss band #kiss army #the spaceman #the starchild #the catman #the demon