A touch of metal - Di

Hi, 
A special Halloween project from our guest Designer Di Oliver who used the Rectangular Panel Frame along with Halloween elements to make a beautiful Halloween display. 
How gorgeous is this ?? Can't wait to read your comments.

Have a play with Cosmic Shimmer sprays and embossing powders and this is what you get... 

Take one of the framed layers of the Rectangular Panel Frame and lay it over the back of the frame but don’t glue it down.  

Arrange a selection of Tando Halloween pieces within the frame and carefully glue in to place.

Take away the framed layer and set aside.

Spray the base panel and all the base pieces with Cosmic Shimmer Bronze Blush

Glue the 3 framed layers together.

Once the base panel is completely dry gently stroke some embossing ink around the surface of parts of the raised parts, emboss with Cosmic Shimmer UTEC Lapis Black

Using some Treasure silver, pick up some highlights around the raised parts.

Paint the glued framed layers with black acrylic.

Randomly stroke some embossing ink over the surface and emboss with Bronze Lustre and then Lapis Black.  Then repeat again using UTEE.  Make it patchy so there are areas of plain black paint still showing.  The heated areas don’t need to be completely smooth.

Di used:

Tando Rectangular Panel Frame

A selection of Tando Halloween pieces

Chipboard letters to fit the frame

Cosmic Shimmer Bronze Blush

Cosmic Shimmer UTEC Bronze Lustre

Cosmic Shimmer UTEC Lapis Black

Any UTEE

Treasure Gold: Silver

Americana Black acrylic paint

Embossing ink

See you tomorrow

A touch of metal - Sylvie

Hi, 
Sharing an altered mirror made by Sylvie today. Gorgeous detailed work as it always is. I'm sure you will enjoy and appreciate the step by step explanation and learn how to achieve this. 
Have you ever altered a mirror? If you give it a go, don't forget to share it with us!

Apply the Grunge Paste on the edges of the mirror and flatten it with a palette knife.
Press a stamp (here Impression Obsession Brick) onto the wet paste and let it dry.
Once dry, apply some paints with a Cut n' Dry piece of foam.

Emboss a sheet of metal with the Crafts Too Damask folder and cut strips to over the unpainted wooden surface of the mirror. Paint them with the Ranger Patinas
Once dry, sand it down to highlight the embossed pattern

Apply the Treasure Gold White Fire and Emeral paints using a brush.
Cut the flower out of the left over metal using the Marianne D dies 

Cut the branches out of cardstock and ink them up with Distress inks

Heat emboss the branches
Ink up the metal flowers with Alcohol inks
Glue them in place using 3D foam pads.
Stamp the dress form with blue Versafine and emboss it with 

Cosmic shimmer Lustre Amethyst Mist . Add it to the frame, on the right
Apply a few touches of colour on the edges of the Mirror with Alcohol inks and add some Treasure Gold on top
Seal with a layer of Fresco Finish paint: Matte glaze

Details

Sylvie used:

Cosmic-shimmer-lustre- embossing powders : Amethyst Mist, Arctic Bay, Iced Blush

Cosmic shimmer Blaze embossing powders : Tropic Moss

Cosmic shimmer Aurora embossing powders: Persian Sea

Vintaj Patina inks : Jade, Amethyst, Marine

Adirondack alcohol inks: Stream, Wild Plum, Gold

Adirondack Alcohol blending solution

Crafts too embossing folders : Damask

Marianne Design Creatables : Branch and flower1, Forest branch, Leaves

Crafty Individuals Dies : Sweet Fying Bird

Memory box die : Delicate Fern

Memory box die : Wrought iron fence

Kaisercraft texture clear stamps : Dress Form

Mercart metal sheet : Bronze

Treasure Gold : Brass, Emerald, White Fire

Grunge Paste

Impression Obsession Stamps : Brick

PaperArtsy Fresco finish paint : Old Gold, Matte glaze, Mermaid, Smoked Paprika, Chocolate Pudding

PaperArtsy stamps : JOFY collection 11

Distress Ink pads : Mowed Lawn, Shaded Lilac, Shipped Sapphire, Evergreen Bough, Picked Rapsberry

Stickles Glitter Glue : Gold, Cinnamon

 See you tomorrow

A touch of metal - Karen

Hi, 
Karen's approach to metal is embossing and filling to give a lovely 3D effect. Perfect technique with those Crafty Individuals elephants. 
You would never guess, looking at this stamp image that you can create the sample below, would you? Well done Karen, it's nice to see a different approach for a stamp set.

Using Crafty Individuals stamp - Sweet Elephants and Swirl - I stamped the elephant part onto a metal sheet using Archival Jet Black Ink and dried it with a heat gun.  

Make sure you let it cool down before handling it.

I put the sheet onto some foam and went around the lines with a pointed tool.  

I then turned the sheet over and went around the inside of the lines with a paper stump.  

Turned again (right side) and went around the outside edges with the paper stamp.  

You should now have a raised elephant.  

Turn over and fill in the indentations with Glossy Accents (you could use Grunge Paste too) and cover with a scrap piece of paper/card. 

Leave to dry, preferably overnight.

Meanwhile, using PaperArtsy Fresco Paints, colour the canvas using fingers and brushes till you are happy.  Stencil some Squid Ink through the Tando Creative Dotted Star in some areas and thread rub some Treasure Gold Silver roughly around the edges.  Cut around the elephants and attach.  I also added a die cut strip of metal.

Karen used

Woodware Metal Sheet - Silver

Walnut Hollow Metal Tools and Paper Stumps

Crafty Individuals Stamp - 351 - Sweet Elephants and Swirl

PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paints - Squid Ink, Beach Hut, Pumpkin Soup and Very Berry

Tando Mask: Dotted Star

Shapeabilities Lace Doily Accents

Treasure Gold - Silver

Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black

Windsor and Newton Canvas Board 178x127mm

 See you tomorrow