I am thrilled that Loll and Bonnie have started their new
CAS Christmas Card Challenge. You have until the 24th to play.
Be sure and check out the gorgeous cards from the Design Team and Guest Designer.
Here is my Faux Enamel Ornament Card!
I had so much fun making faux enamel ornaments!
Aren't they amazing? I ended up making 9 more ornament cards using the same design as above!
I used an old electric grill with a small heat resistant craft sheet (cut from larger sheet) laid onto low medium heated grill.
My twin sister, Margie took my photo while I was making ornaments:-)
Eat Sleep Create Repeat!
I took photo of Margie die cutting!
I used this YouTube Video for my faux enamel technique.
I die cut SU Coaster Board (Ret.), which is a little lighter than chip board
using my SU "Holiday Ornaments" Dies.
Then I layed one ornament on the heated craft mat and used a small spoon
to add a generous amount of clear embossing powder.
Let melt, then added "old" mica powders in gold, blue and red.
Lifted off hot ornament with metal palette knife and placed on craft mat to cool.
I used the same technique on all my ornaments varying the colors of mica and glitter.
The more you play with the technique the more ideas you get.
I had overflow melted pieces that I saved and added to some ornaments while embossing powder was still hot and then melted and stirred the melted powder with a metal skewer for little designs.
Be sure and die cut extra shapes. You can't make just one...guaranteed!
My CAS card design was very easy.
I used MISTI to stamp my SU "Ornamental Pine" (ret) pine branch
with SU Mossy Meadows and Garden Green stamp pads and Soft Suede marker.
Next I stamped sentiment from SU "Calm Christmas" (ret) in Versamark
and heat embossed with SU Gold EB powder.
Added gold cord to ornament and attached to card with Tombow glue
and popped up ornament with dimensionals.
Attached main image to SU Gold Foil
and attached to SU Thick Whisper White card base and Done!
I was very pleased with the results:-)
Enjoy and Happy Christmas Card creating! Hugs...
I die cut SU Coaster Board (Ret.), which is a little lighter than chip board
using my SU "Holiday Ornaments" Dies.
Then I layed one ornament on the heated craft mat and used a small spoon
to add a generous amount of clear embossing powder.
Let melt, then added "old" mica powders in gold, blue and red.
Lifted off hot ornament with metal palette knife and placed on craft mat to cool.
I used the same technique on all my ornaments varying the colors of mica and glitter.
The more you play with the technique the more ideas you get.
I had overflow melted pieces that I saved and added to some ornaments while embossing powder was still hot and then melted and stirred the melted powder with a metal skewer for little designs.
Be sure and die cut extra shapes. You can't make just one...guaranteed!
My CAS card design was very easy.
I used MISTI to stamp my SU "Ornamental Pine" (ret) pine branch
with SU Mossy Meadows and Garden Green stamp pads and Soft Suede marker.
Next I stamped sentiment from SU "Calm Christmas" (ret) in Versamark
and heat embossed with SU Gold EB powder.
Added gold cord to ornament and attached to card with Tombow glue
and popped up ornament with dimensionals.
Attached main image to SU Gold Foil
and attached to SU Thick Whisper White card base and Done!
I was very pleased with the results:-)
Enjoy and Happy Christmas Card creating! Hugs...
Supplies:
Stamps: SU "Ornamental Pine" and "Calm Christmas". Both retired.
Paper: SU Thick Whisper White, Gold Foil and Coaster Board (ret)
Inks: Versamark. SU Mossy Meadow, Garden Green ink pads and Soft Suede marker.
Accessories: Electric Grill. heat resistant craft mat, Hampton Art clear EB powder, small spoon, Old mica powders, glitter. gold cord.
