Paper Medallions…

Dec 7, 2010

Well since yes­ter­day, I showed you my favorite Crepe Paper and Glit­ter artist, today, I decided to show you my favorite Paper Medal­lion Artist… who just so hap­pens to love Crepe Paper too. Gosh how fun would it be to sit at a table with these two and cre­ate… I would LOVE that! Maybe some­day… here is to wishing!

Sat­ur­day, while co-teaching the snow globe project with Trisha, Ann-Denise Ander­son of Whim & Fancy Designs was teach­ing in the next room. I’ve loved her work for such a long time. Ann-Denise has been fea­tured in sev­eral issues of Som­er­set mag­a­zine and since the moment I laid eyes on her work I’ve hoped to meet her. Our paths just never seemed to cross at the same time so you can imag­ine my excite­ment when I found out she and I were teach­ing at The Crafty Scrap­per the very same day. All I can say is oh my good­ness is her “Nut­cracker Suit Paper Medal­lion” class incred­i­ble.

Her class ended as mine and Trisha’s was break­ing for lunch so I ran over to meet her and see all the fin­ished projects cre­ated by her stu­dents. I was speech­less… they were all so unique and GORGEOUS. If you ever have the chance to take a Paper Medal­lion class you want to make sure and take it from Ann-Denise as she is the orig­i­nal cre­ator of this gor­geous art piece. Dur­ing her class she taught her stu­dents paper manip­u­la­tion tech­niques and inspired them to use bits and pieces of bro­ken glass as well as tat­ter­ing and smol­der­ing tulle & lace. She even pro­vided extra good­ies to add to their project. As you can see by the pho­tos below Ann-Denise is truly an awe­some instruc­tor. Just look at what her stu­dents created.

Ann-Denise is right when she says, you will want to make dozens of these to dis­play through­out your home! I sure do. Her cre­ations are cer­tain to add ele­gance and beauty to your home this Hol­i­day Season!

I know The Crafty Scrap­per has a few kits left for sale if you would like to make one of her Orig­i­nal Paper Medal­lions. I cer­tainly grabbed my kit. There were going to be some seri­ous tears shed if I didn’t get one. Each kit comes pack­aged in an adorable box and includes step by step instruc­tions and all the won­der­ful good­ies needed to cre­ate your very own Ann-Denise Orig­i­nal Paper Medal­lion.


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  • http://www.whimandfancydesigns.blogspot.com Ann-Denise Ander­son

    Lisa.…..You are too kind and so sweet! Thank you and so glad you got your kit!!! I hope to see you again soon!! Happy Hol­i­days and get that tree up!!
    XO,AD

  • Kitty

    What LOAD of sh*t!!! If you think you cre­ated the cone or *aka* medal­lion your a fruitcake

    • http://yahoo Cherie

      Kitty.… Really? Is that necessary?

    • http://lisapace.com Lisa M. Pace

      Not really sure what it is you’re (notice I typed you’re as in you are and not your) talk­ing about Kitty (which I am pretty cer­tain is not your real name but I will play along with the game, it’s great hav­ing a hus­band in the tech­ni­cal field, he fig­ures all sorts of stuff out for me) since my post does not men­tion any­thing about me being the orig­i­nal cre­ator of the Paper Medal­lion. T’is the sea­son for fruit­cake for sure.

    • kitty

      Please for­give my mean spir­ited words. I have no excuse for the behav­ior. I have no dog in the fight of paper medal­lions. I was wrong.

  • Lisa E

    Oh Kitty…tisk tisk tisk…something tells me you are guilty of some­thing bad. I pre­dict a stock­ing full of coal for you this Christmas!

  • Not Kitty’s friend

    Wow! I do not under­stand the anger in this. Ann Denise sent in a project to Som­mer­set Hol­i­day a long time ago and is pub­lished 4 times includ­ing this medalion. She did a make and take in April and was a medal­lion not as intri­cate. Although there is no “patent” on art projects she was the first one to cre­ate “this” medal­lion! After Som­mer­set I saw some­one want to give a class with the same style and pic­ture in the mid­dle and I laughed. I am not an artist just like to learn and be amoung fun women that love the same things and are happy. I think for your self respect when you copy really really close you should write: “This project was inspired by.…” Apear­ently this has hap­pened to alot of artists lately. It is a pretty project. And there is no need to be nasty or child­ish. Noth­ing is “hid­den” in the com­puter world and be happy and enjoy your fam­ily and the sea­son! Lisa fruit­cake is chic now! lol Love your work and blog.

  • Jen­niferB

    WOW! I am amazed at people’s behav­ior when they can hide behind a com­puter and key­board! Love ya Lisa.…you han­dled this so well!