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Summary: Learn how to color transparencies when designing and making homemade buttons with expert crafting tips in this free arts and crafts video clip.
Robyn Lyman is a creative artist who has finished thousands of pieces of artwork and owns the company Many Hearts, One Nation, reachable at the link.read more
"ROBYN LYMAN: This is Robyn with Expert Village. Now we've got our drawing complete. This is what it will kinda look like. Now from here we need to take this down to Kinko's or any copy place and make them into colored copies. I've taken the liberty to do that already so you can kinda get an idea. Now normally I'll go ahead and cut out these circles and put six to a page so you can get more for your money that way. Because when you're paying for a colored transparency, it's going to cost you $2 a piece. You want to get the most for your money, so if you have six on here instead of four, you're going to get paid off. Now I have a colored transparency that we've taken and this is our drawing in the colored transparency. The reason we put it in the colored transparency is because once we put it to the press, we're going to put over a hologram paper and that will give it even more dimension. So this drawing, if it was just on white paper, it looks pretty much like the thing we just colored. So I really like this idea I came up with. I hope someone doesn't mess around with it. But they'll have fun with this. It's fun to be able to do this. Now, on the next step, you're going to have to have a button press and some mirrors in that in order to be able to complete it."
eHow Article: Coloring the Transparency for a Button Design