Sassy Duck Creative

I couldn't imagine being a school teacher; for any grade. It takes a special person to take on that task, to take our children under their wings in fill their minds with knowledge. This year my daughter had a teacher that she said was one of her favorites and to be honest I think she was mine too. She took the time to help my daughter and give her the direction she needed. I am not sure how other schools in the rest of the United States work, but now a days kids don't even come home with homework anymore so it is hard for us parent to know what they are learning, on top of that they have changed the way they learn so now we have to jump on You Tube just to find out how to add a different way. With all of these changes in our school it is so important for children to be able to at least get along with their teachers but it is awesome when love having that individual as a teacher. So this year I decided to use my new found craft to 1. give myself more practice and 2. giv

My second Cup I flopped a couple of times, and I have found that sometimes the simplest cups can be the most difficult. I started with acrylic inks mixed with epoxy; which looked amazing but chime the "trial and error bell," Acrylic mixed in epoxy seems to dry faster then expected and as I let it turn I tried to add more acrylic ink and it no longer wanted to "flow." So had to strip it. Then I went to an acrylic pour, what can I say, I hated it, didn't have the look I wanted, so second go was striped... So now we get to the third and final, I wanted something a little darker almost a royal blue so I went back to the good ol' alcohol inks and was able to achieve the look I was going for. After adding a little extra darker blue ink the cup was ready to dry. One more learned lesson was do not use a heat gun once the epoxy has started to cure. I ended up having large diviets that had to be sanded out. Once sanded and washed it w

It has been exactly a year since my last post, what can I say, life happens. Since I have been away I have picked up a new craft...Customizing Tumblers. I know, I know there are a lot of crafters out there that have picked up this craft but to be honest it can be a very satisfying craft. I tried my hand at this craft a little over a year ago and bomb on the first cup so I threw in the towel, I didn't have the right tools nor the patients so at the time it wasn't for me. Fast forward to a couple of months ago I asked for a tumbler turner for my birthday and got it, This is where the journey has begun. I have been able to create some pretty awesome cups since then. I know there are many different techniques to learn along with experimenting with a few ideas. I have made some amazing gifts for people. I am not going to post all my cups in this one post but I am going to show you where I started on this journey. I have not done what I have seen so many others do and go c