Happy Saturday crafters! Anita Houston here, to try to add a little inspiration to your weekend.
A couple of weeks ago, Linda, for the
Friday Focus,
showed you how to create metal embellishments that were fabulous and
real show stoppers. I am going to add to that for this Saturday Step x
Step, and give you a quick tutorial showing you a few ways to create
metal embossed tags.
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| Cut a piece of Foil Tape Sheet to fit a jumbo sized tag. |
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| Apply the Foil Tape and use a brayer to flatten it for better adhesion. Trim the fol and punch the hole for the tag. |
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| Using a
Texture Fade of your choice, emboss the image on the tag. From this
point, you have many options. The following snippit samples show you two
options. |
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| Sample #1:
Apply Acrylic Paint Dabber making sure to get into every crack and
crevice, let dry, then sand the top until a shiny finish appears. You
can add an embossing medium and UTEE to the whole image, and then heat
emboss, for a wonderful thick glaze. |
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| Sample #2: Apply Vintaj Ink Patina, let dry, sand the top, then apply the Vintaj Glaze. |
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| Add drops of a darker Alcohol Ink straight from the bottle. |
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| Using an
Alcohol Ink Tool, dab the drops of ink on the tag. Add more darker ink
and gradually add lighter colors until you achieve your desired look and
color. |
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| You can stop
at this stage. The following snippit sample shows you another look using
all the same techniques as this, but with more lighter Alcohol Ink than
dark. |
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| Sample #3 |
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| Sand the
raised edges of the embossed design using a very fine grit paper or use a
Vintaj Reliefing Block. Apply Vintaj Glaze or use UTEE heat embossing.
When dry, add your embellishments and ribbon. |
Don't forget to visit the
Funkie Junkie Boutique. There are tons of metals just waiting to be used, and now the Boutique is carrying the wonderful Vintaj Patina Metal Inks and Glaze!
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