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Etching the summer away with Armour Etch and Stampendous
The Stampendous girls are etching glass this week with Armour Etch! Be sure to hop over to the Stampendous blog to see who all has been playing along this week and the prizes for hopping along with us. Also be sure to leave comments at everyone's blogs for chances to win!
Glass etching is so easy and fun! (There, I said it!!) BUT I want to share a couple of tips that will make your project sooo much better. (Full directions for etching with stamps, compliments of Stampendous, is at the bottom of this post.)
My first project that I created is a candle which would have been gorgeous, LOL, but here's my first tip: Don't emboss your image on glass where the candle is already inside! It melts the candle in those spots and gives you a weird consistency in that area so that it is hard to see your gorgeous etching!
(Also, I used White Embossing Powder which didn't rub off quite as easily as Bark or Gold I found out later.)
For this one I started with a large candle in a jar and stamped and embossed Jumbo Songbird. The large chunky image worked as a great mask for the etching!
But since I managed to melt the candle its really hard to see in a photo now!
So I made two little shot glasses too! (OK, so they're really votive holders but hey!)
On these I used Fantasy Tiles and then masked off the area around them with contact paper and a square punch.
So now I've learned a few minor lessons before our hop on Friday and hopefully I'll figure out a better way to photograph this gorgeous effect too!
Also posting today:
Lea Kimmel
Tobi Crawford
How to etch glass the Stampendous way (of course you can do it another way if you like...ahem... Jenn):
Find your piece of glass – it’s a bit easier if it’s flat, but with cling you can work around a round surface. Go to thrift store, or you can use a mirror as well. - get two or three...you’ll want to try one first.
Clean your glass – with rubbing alcohol
Stamp your image – with versamark OR a colored pigment ink like ColorBox or VersaColor – color won’t matter – but image does. Choose something with clear, well-defined lines, not toooooo detailed.
IF you don’t like your image, clean with rubbing alcohol and repeat as often as necessary.
Emboss your image with ANY color powder (but probably not chunky ones). Heat carefully, some thin things like glasses and christmas ornaments can break if heated too much.
Now – your image will be the part of the design that is NOT etched. So get a piece of contact paper and cut a frame with a Spellbinders die or something like that, that your image fits into.
Place the frame on the glass around the stamped image. Smooth it down very well leaving no gaps or bubbles along the frame edge that etching cream could seep under.
Apply etching cream with a slightly dampened sponge brush. You may want to do this outside, it kinda smells, keep the coat very thick and even, working on a small area at a time. Work quickly.
Wait one minute – more isn’t better. Then take your glass thing to the sink and rinse under warm water simultaneously washing away ALL the embossing powder.
Remove the contact paper – TA DA!! You will get soooooooooo addicted to this. I promise... You thought resin was addicting. Look out world!
Photography – you can use Rub N Buff (available at Michaels) to rub into your etched part to really make it pop... Putting a dark surface inside your project can help, too.
A link to the online instructions including a video
Stenciling on Canvas with Silks and Primary elements Tutorial
Good morning peeps! Today I am sharing a little canvas with you that started as a "mop up" and then it kept calling me to finish it!
I began with a small 6x8 canvas which I prepped with Matte Gel medium, Tim Holtz tissue paper, and then more medium. The background is a color wash of Silks acrylic glazes in African Jade, Moonbeams, and Stargazer) from Splash of Color. The silks are a luscious semi-transparent shimmery paint that dries almost immediately.
Next I prepped two piles of Champagne Modeling Creme by adding Primary Elements pigment powders to each (one with Teal Zircon, the other with Ocean Waves).
I masked the words off of the top of my Urban Landscape stencil from TCW with painter's tape and then spread the creme mixture through the skyline.
This is what it looked like at this point:
I used the other color of embossing creme that I created to stencil the Subway stencil onto the background. I heated both parts for a few seconds with my heat gun since I'm so impatient.
On a scrap of pattern paper I stenciled one of the cameras from the Picture Perfect stencil with a black Pearl pen from Viva. I made a small puddle on my craft mat and then laid it over the stencil with a makeup sponge.
My skyline looked a bit lost so I traced the edges with a black pen.
OK. so this adorable little "Today" diecut? I know I cut it at a workshop with Jaime but I can't find it on the TCW website so maybe I'm sneaking you a peek of something top secret! (The watercolor paper was sprayed with Radiant Rain before being die cut)
Finally I added a few words to my canvas. I unmasked the words from Urban Landscape and stenciled them with the same black Pearl Pen then cut them apart and glued them on.
I used the cute little Prima doll stamp by Julie Nutting for my focal image. She was stamped once on text paper and then again on a sheet of Art Journal pp from Prima. The dress and headband were cut out and then I ran a thin layer of Moonbeams silks over both of these pieces to add a touch of shimmer.
I placed her on a partial #10 tag from Ranger...this was first painted with Twinkling H2Os in Lucky Apple and Sea Spray and then I stamped the globe from Tim Holtz's Travel Blueprints stamp set in archival black ink.
Hope you enjoyed my little adventure! My local girls are already asking when this will be a class, so I will whip up a few more similar samples and schedule that soon!
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Good morning! This is Cyndi with you here today to share some fun techniques with Twinkling H2Os and Silks from Splash of Color! Twinkling H2Os have been around forever and we all used to watercolor with these gorgeous shimmery paints. But there has recently been a new resurgence of love for this product since Splash of Color (formerly Creative Imaginations) took over the product line from Luminarte. Now its all about the…See More
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Good morning! This is Cyndi with you here today to share some fun techniques with Twinkling H2Os and Silks from Splash of Color! Twinkling H2Os have been around forever and we all used to watercolor with these gorgeous shimmery paints. But there has recently been a new resurgence of love for this product since Splash of Color (formerly Creative Imaginations) took over the product line from Luminarte. Now its all about the…See More
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Tutorial Monday: Twinkling H2Os and Silks Resist in my Art Journal
Posted on June 10, 2013 at 9:40am 2 Comments 2 Likes
Good morning! This is Cyndi with you here today to share some fun techniques with Twinkling H2Os and Silks from Splash of Color! Twinkling H2Os have been around forever and we all used to watercolor with these gorgeous shimmery paints. But there has recently been a new resurgence of love for this product since Splash of Color (formerly Creative Imaginations) took over the product line…
Scrappy Sunday with Cyndi
Posted on May 26, 2013 at 8:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
I have been playing more and more with Project Life, even if I don't do it every week it gets me scrapbooking again! There are so many options out there now for the divided layouts. I used to do these all the time (without the pockets) and we called it color blocking. Its a great way to get lots of photos on a page.…
Continue 3D212 Art Journaling
Posted on April 16, 2013 at 6:47am 2 Comments 0 Likes
Its time to play along with the 3D challenge and this week I'm challenging you to create an Art Journal page!
This doesn't have to be scary and I'm betting you have all the supplies that you need:
1. A journal (could be a sketchbook, an old atlas or book, a composition…
Continue An Easter Tag Tim Holtz style: Tutorial and Giveaway
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:00pm 12 Comments 1 Like
Art Journaling with Dreamweaver Stencils
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:30pm 17 Comments 1 Like
This is Cyndi from the Dreamweaver Stencils team and its my turn for our weekly tutorial. Today I am using my stencils in my Art Journal. Above is the page that I created.
I began by spreading…
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