Embossing and mica challenge

Hi, 


Well, another week of inspiration has passed, with lots of techniques and different ways to use the Fran-tage products. Now it's time to see if you have been listening carefully to your teachers LOL and get those Mica flakes and enamel embossing powders out.

For this challenge, we will ask you to 

use embossing enamel and / or mica flakes on your project. 

You don't have any Fran-tage? (well, you should lol)... you can use other brands... UTEE or the Cosmic Shimmer for the enamel for example. But if you do have some Fran-tage, please use this first.

Project can be anything: 

Card, Art Journal page, Scrapbooking page, ATC

altered object etc... 

Challenge is open to all countries

and will close on 

Sunday 15th July

Please, post your entrie(s) on your blog and link it

(Permalink please, not a general link to your blog) to the blue frog below.

If you don't have a blog, you can email me a picture of your entry (the name of the file should be your name) and I'll post it for you.

The other option, if you don't have a blog is to post it on your Facebook and link it from there.

I should think it would work with Google + or Instagram too for those of you who have those accounts. Remember that your picture has got to be public for it to work.

HAVE FUN

Can't wait to see what you come up with

Simply Saturdays goes Frantage

Hi, 
Last day of our Fran-tage week. We hope you enjoyed it and got inspired as there is a new challenge coming up on Sunday. 
Today Gay made this beautiful card for you, using the Gold embossing enamel to create a beautiful embellishment for her card.

I used Gold Frantage embossing enamel deeply embossing it.
Three times I added more powder onto a die cut whilst it was hot, and stamped an image onto the hot enamel. I wasn't happy with my choice of design so I re heated and using a dart/pokey tool, marbled the black Stazon 

Products that Gay used

Frantage embossing enamels Spellbinders Fleur de lis squares Katzelkraft trees Archival inks Coloured A4 card Self adhesive pearls

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Fran-tage week: Angel

Hi, 
More samples today using the Fran-tage embossing enamels. First of all with Karen who made this gorgeous angel from one of the Tando Creative blanks.

Isn't that clever? What a lovely project for your Christmas decorations to come

Here's how Karen made her angel... 

Using the Tando 3D Angel, take the two wing pieces and Fran-tage the wing sections.

 I used the Stampendous Aged Ivory enamel fisrt in two layers then added Rose Fragments and a few Pearlised Mica Fragments.  Assemble all the pieces.  

Wrap some wadding around the head part, cut a circle around 3" across and sew a gathering stitch round the edge. Pull the ends up as you place the circle over the head, fasten.  

Take a strip (around 2"x6") of patterned fabric and gather up one long side.  As you fit the gathered end around the neck snip up to the top of the wings to make it fit. Hand sew the seams.  Repeat with the wide lace and the narrow gold lace.  Cut strips of wool/fibre for the hair and stitch in place.  Paint the crown using gold acrylic.  Wrap some wire over the crown and wrap the ends round the neck under the narrow lace.

Products Karen used:

Tando Creative 3D angel Frantage Mica fragment Frantage embossing enamels Eco Green acrylic paint Versamark ink pad

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And here's a couple of samples that I made a while back. I might have "retired" from blogging etc. but I still "have a play" every so often ;) and those were actually made for a class I taught here.
(the hardest bit will to remember how I made them to tell you ;))

I used the Fran-tage Shabby Blue embossing Enamel ... gorgeous stuff. Make sure you shake the jar well before using to mix the colours or you might end up with everything blue or everything white. Which is what happened on the tag, but I still liked it that way. 

On the first one, I used the Tim Holtz Vintage Cabinet Card to cut several layers of (Amazon parcel left over) cardboard and glued them together. On the base card (cardboard again), I applied a random layer of gesso, stamped the script with Archival ink, then stamped and embossed the swirls (Crafty Individuals CI-173) using the Shabby Blue embossing Enamel. You can see that one of the swirl (top left) is mainly white... the one on the right is blue and the one at the bottom is a bit of both. 

That's what I like about those powders, they are unpredictable, yet the result is always stunning. 

I then added my ribbon, lace, stamped and embossed image (CI-340) and glued the "frame" on top. 

The swirls on the frame were embossed with Stardust embossing powder

Main image is stamped in black (with Versafine ink) and embossed with clear embossing powder

On this one, I had not shaken the jar, so my embossing is mainly blue with some speckles of gold.

I used the Crafty Individuals CI-338 

Products I used on my samples:

Tim Holtz Vintage Cabinet card                 Frantage embossing enamels                 Crafty Individuals stamps                 Clear embossing powder                 Versafine ink                 Versamark ink pad

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See you tomorrow