SOSPESO PAPER VEIL

Hello Everyone and very warm Good Morning!!

My favourite season of the year is already here with all the festivities and warmness :)

On this auspicious festival of lights,
May the glow of joy,
Prosperity and happiness
Illuminate you life and and your home.
Wishing you all a very Happy Diwali


Today I am going to share with you all more about SOSPESO TRANSPARANTE, In this post I am going to talk about SOSPESO PAPER VEIL. In my last post I have talked about the BASICS OF SOSPESO PRINTED FILMS , If you are a beginner and would like to try Sospeso for the first time then you can read all about basics here.

What is SOSPESO PAPER VEIL ??
Sospeso paper veil is printed images on air light weight paper (special papers). You need to paste these veils on special transparent (plastic) sheets first before you make your gorgeous flowers.

Working with Sospeso plastic films is easy, where you just have to fussy cut the images- heat - and emboss to make your flowers. Its absolutely easy and perfect for beginners.

Coming over to Veils, its little tricky and time taking process, but the time involved is absolutely worth it. Sospeso paper veils are economic as compared to plastic sheets and are perfect for big projects or large quantity of flowers. 

Material Required - 
1- Sospeso paper veil
2- Glue- special sospeso transparente glue 
3- Special sospeso plastic films 
4- Embossing pad and tools 
5- Candle 
6- container and water 

In the above picture you can see I have used Hibiscus paper veil. You can either paste the entire veil on the the special plastic film or you can roughly cut each pattern from veil and paste them individually on the plastic films.

I have tried both the ways .... 

SPECIAL SOSPESO GLUE

In order to paste these veils on plastic films you will be needing special sospeso transparente glue. Mix equal amount of water and glue in a container and paste the veils with a help of brush.

Since the plastic veil is so thin you got be extra cautious while pasting 

On which side to apply Glue ????

In the picture you can see I have tried both the ways of pasting the veils on plastic film. Top most picture I have pasted the entire veil on plastic films, but somehow there are some wrinkle on the sheets.

Then I tried the long way, I roughly cut the designs and pasted each one of them on the plastic films.

If you noticed, I have pasted veil design pattern facing up while roughly cut images are pasted upside down. Both ways create gorgeous results.

Veils pasted design facing downwards creates Porcelain effect because its glossy and  designs facing upwards where veil back is pasted to the film creates Matte effect.

The cutouts on the left hand side are the matte ones where the plastic is beneath and cutouts on the right hand side are the one procelain where the plastic film is above the design.

I have fussy cut both the sets. It somehow takes lot of time for procelain effect as you need to double cut the flowers one roughly for pasting and secondly final cutting right from the edge.

Once we have all our cutouts ready, Its time for embossing and shaping the flowers. Now the process is similar to that of Printed films, you can check the video how I have embossed the flowers 

While embossing the veils you must take care while at the time of heating, only that area is to be heated where the plastic films is. Don't heat the paper veils else they will catch fire.

Finally with all the time and effort the gorgeous flowers are ready. You can easily spot the difference between the two sets of matte and procelain.

It's time to assemble these beauties :)

 Since the Matte effect gives the normal look to flowers that of simple paper flowers, I have decided to add some distress dry glitter with sospeso glue.
I have added these flowers to this bird cage candle stand. It just perfectly enhances the beauty and looks perfect against the black color.

Happy diwali :)

Haave added candle to it and its just looking perfect.

Further have tried my hands on some basic jewellery pieces like a ring and neck piece. 

The flower used in the jewellery and frame is procelain effect one's,

I hope I am able to inspire you all, Do try your hands on this gorgeous art of SOSPESO.
You can shop all the supplies at Crafters Corner store

Material Used:
Sospeso embossing tool and pad

Hot Glue gun 

Crystal fillers
Hibiscus paper veil

Have a nice day
XOXO
Isha

BASICS : SOSPESO TRANSPARENTE BY MONICA ALLEGRO

Good Morning Everyone

How are you all doing...

Isn’t the last post by my fellow DT Suzna Amazing ??? I am so much in love with it. To begin with I am sorry was Mia last month wasn’t keeping well and thank you so much for the super supportive carfters corner DT team for their love and support.

Today I am going to share something about SOSPESO TRANSPARENTE...  I am sure we all are very much familiar by the term SOSPESO TRANSPARENTE... just in case you are new to the term, Let me Introduce you to SOSPESO TRANSPARENTE

                                                          Picture credit: google

SOSPESO TRANSPARENTE is a volume decoupage decorative technique created and patented by Italian artist MONICA ALLEGRO. Sospeso Trasparente allows you to make volume decorative elements from special printed films, paper and fabrics. Quoting Monica Allegro herself " Sospeso Transparente  means transparent and raised up process"

The technique basically involves heating special plastic films and making 3 D shapes out of it.

Before moving ahead I want to tell you that this is a Basic post on SOSPESO TRANSPARENTE, for further techniques keep looking up the space will share soon ... let’s get back to basics..

Let me tell you this form of art is so very addictive and extraordinary and I would like to Thanks a tonnes to Monica Allegro for inventing it.

Sospeso Transparente art involves special printed sheets, special super soft light weight embossing pad and wooden embossing tools.

You guys might be wondering what is so special about these sheets and tools...

For beginners it is advised to first try Special printed sheets patented by Monica Allegro

Sospeso Tranparente special plastic printed films comes with beautiful designs printed on them. Unlike other plastics these are safe, non toxic and do not let out hazardous chemicals when heated over candle.

Now What is so special about its Embossing Pad and Embossing Tool-

Unlike the embossing pads used for punch-craft and parchment the Embossing pad for Sospeso Transparente is super soft, spongy and comes in white color and is made of special material which can take the heat and won’t damage the delicate printed designs on the sospeso printed films.

Sospeso Embossing tools are made of wood, not like steel made tools for punchcraft. The reason why these are made of wood is because wood is a good conductor of heat. These special Monica Allegro designed embossing wooden tools are the most gentle on the delicate designs. The plastic and metal tools are more likely to leave scratch marks on the delicate designs.

Additional Material Required:

Scissors

Candle

Glue- Hot glue / E6000

Steps : TO GET STARTED WITH SOSPESO TRANSPARENTE 

Step 1-  Cutting

First and foremost important step is cutting... Although it's a time taking process to fussy cut all the prints on the sheets. Be cautious while cutting the designs you don't want to cut the beautiful prints or scratch them. 

While cutting make sure you don't just cut the edges, cut the intricate designs inwards as well...

STEP 2- Heating

Monica Allegro  has recommended Heating with the hair dryer in her book of Sospeso Transparente She recommends heating the flower while placing it on the embossing pad and embossing it at the same time without switching off the dryer! Although I have not tried this method, I have used candle to curl heat and emboss my flowers.

While working with candle make sure you don't burn your fingers and cut outs. Candle happen to be one of the most go to conventional tool for heating process. 

TIPS TO REMEMBER WHILE HEATING- 

1- Heat from the non printed side.

2- Make your candle is of good quality and does not smoke and leave residue over your prints.

3- Use forceps/tweezers to heat the small cut outs or intricate designs..

4- Maintain good distance between candle flame and printed sheet, you don't wan to burn your prints.(Pssstt.. I managed to burn one..) 

5- You can reheat and shape your designs as desired.

STEP 3- EMBOSSING

When you heat the plastic film  prints it starts to curl-- quickly transfer to your embossing pad and emboss.

TIPS TO REMEMBER WHILE EMBOSSING-

• Heat and emboss  petals first and then the centre of the flower
• Choose which size of embossing ball you want to use, like for example for bigger petals use the bigger size ball end and to get a deeper embossing use the smaller more pointed embossing ball end

Hop over to tutorial to make these beauties .....

Projects I have made with SOSPESO TRANPARENTE :-

In the above picture you can see I have stacked one flower over the other to have volume. You cam add layers to make it more voluminous and give fuller effect. I have just added two layers but you can try more...

I hope you all liked the gorgeous art form SOSPESO TRANSPARENTE by Monica Allegro. 

Don't forget to try your hands on this magical art form, I am sure you will all love it.

Last but not the last I apologies in advance if I am wrong with any of your copyrighted techniques Monica Aellgro.

I will try to improve in my next attempt.

Don't forget to leave some Love 

XOXO

Isha

Material Used- 

Sospeso Printed sheets - Rododendro printed , pansy printed plastic sheet 

Sospeso embossing tool and pad

Hot Glue gun 

Crystal fillers

DIY Custom Made Embellishments

Origami Box

         Hi friends Dr Sonia here with a 3 D project that takes me down memory lane of my DT stint at Crafters Corner as it features some popular products I have demoed from Crafters Corner in the past with detailed tutorials!

The star of this Origami Box is a large paper peony[ will share its tutorial soon] with leaves made using the Flower Punch Board .

Here are links to tutorials using the Flower Punch Board

• Easy Flower and Leaf Making with Flower Punch Board
• Easy Basket tutorial with Flower Punch Board
• Paper Basket tutorial- Version 2 
• Fairy Land tutorial with Flower Punch Board
• Daffodil tutorial with Flower Punch Board

The bright peony was toned down with Sospeso Trasparente flowers made using paper veils and crackle paint .

Here are the links to Sospeso Trasparente tutorials 

• Sospeso Trasparente tutorial  
• Sospeso Trasparente Jewelry tutorial 
• Sospeso Trasparente Paper veil tutorial 
• Sospeso Trasparente Ice crystals tutorial 
• Sospeso Trasparente Fabric tutorial 

This is how the origami star box looks like  before its dressed up and embellished. I used a Martha Stewart Beaded Ruffle Border Punch on the flaps of the box .
Here is a recap of posts on Punches
Hose to use Craft Punches ,Care and Repair
12 ways to Use Border Punches

      Ever since Shalini sent me the best "pick up tool", the Crystal Katana ...I have been adding pearls galore to all my projects as handling all those tiny pearls is so easy with it. 

In case you missed the post ...here is the link 

Crystal Katana and Tanto - the Best Pick up tools review

Crystal Katana 

Making your own embellishments to match your project is not only economical but super fun and gratifying too! I added handmade silver "metallic" embellishments to all the flaps and corners of my origami box.

You can use air drying clay and silicon molds to easily make your own DIY embellishments.

Handmade Clay Embellishments

Cheap air dry clay comes in some pretty bright colors  and the purple and red bows I had made looked too colorful to use in any project till I transformed them into Silver Charms!

You can completely change the look of  your handmade clay embellishments using sophisticated paints such as Liquid Leaf .

Here is the link to the detailed post on Liquid Leaf 

Liquid Leaf 

I used Silver Liquid Leaf  to create metallic embellishments which looked like our popular metallic charms but were ideal to use on paper crafts as they were made of lightweight clay!

Since Liquid Leaf has a nice thin and flowing consistency...none of the details of the clay embellishment were lost even after painting.

          The lid of my origami box has foam sandwiched between its layers for added strength

       I used the gorgeous Lemon Craft Dreamy Mornings pattern paper to make this origami box and this type of box is ideal to showcase any pretty double sided paper you may be hoarding!

I hope you liked this simple project and a recap of the tutorials.

Supplies
Punches : Flower Punch Board, Martha Stewart Beaded ruffle border Punch

Special Tool : Crystal Katana 
Sospeso Trasparente 

Special Products : Liquid Leaf , Diamond Dust, Clear Rock Candy Crackle Paint

Pattern Paper : Lemon Craft Dreamy Mornings

Clay Products : Martha Stewart

Dies : Spellbinders Nestablities Blossom Five,Scallop Square, Marianne Designs Anja Leaf 3 , Marianne Designs Anja Leaf 1

Spray Adhesive Review

         Hi Crafters, Dr Sonia here back to the crafting world after a brief sabbatical and special thanks to all who messaged and mailed me to ask why I was missing!Shalini announcing the new dynamic DT was just the impetus to get me back to crafting! Thank you Shalini for being such an understanding and wonderful person to work for!

Glue Spray

This is a super long post but if you have been following my blog and my DT posts here at Crafters Corner I guess you will be used to my photo packed reviews and tutorials!
Adhesives are every crafter's necessity and I had always been intrigued on reading about spray adhesives on craft sites so it was especially exciting to get my hands on a spray adhesive...by E6000!

Spray adhesive

In case you missed the other adhesive reviews here are the links: Super Adhesive E6000 glue Review and 12 Uses of Red Tacky Tape
What is a spray adhesive...?
Simply put  its a glue you can spray on real quick and easy! If you are like me and love spray painting you will understand my excitement when Shalini got spray adhesives  to Crafters Corner !
What is especially cool about E6000 Spray adhesive?
Not all spray adhesives are the same. Many spray adhesives are toxic and I even saw one in the local market which even had a scary label saying it was inflammable!
The E6000 spray  is non toxic ,has no smell [ unlike the E6000 tube glue],and you dont have to use it outdoors [since most crafters work indoors this is especially advantageous!].And the big plus point for me is you can use it with children around and yeah even little crafter can have a go at spray gluing as its nontoxic and so easy to use!
Tips to use E6000 Spray
It is super easy to use the E6000 spray adhesive but here are a few tips I would like to share

• Keep your project to be sprayed on a  plastic sheet to protect the surrounding area from the glue spray - the spray is like a fine mist and yes it will fall on adjacent areas but it can be easily cleaned with plain water if needed.

  

  Spray Adhesive
• Keep a glass of water at hand while using the spray. Once you finish using the spray.....unscrew the cap, dip the nozzle with the tubing into the glass of water and spray...the water will spray out of the spray mechanism and it will clean it so that your glue spray bottle nozzle does not get clogged.

  

   Nozzle cleaning

• Drying time depends on the material you are using it on...metal and plastic can take hours to dry while paper dries in minutes.

Materials you can use it on

The E 6000 spray can be used on a huge range of materials : Paper, Wood, Cardboard, foil,Fabric,Foam, Thermocol[styrofoam], Glass, Plastic,Metals etc

Special Properties 

• Photo-safe 
• Dries clear
• Fairly strong adhesive
• Does not Yellow
• Non toxic

Sharing a few of my experiments with this awesome Spray Glue

1. Gluing Glitter and Sequins
The first thing that came to mind on thinking of a spray glue was trying it with glitter and sequins.

My little girl is ever ready to try out new products and she is the one who eagerly inspects all the DT goodies Shalini keeps sending us!

Spray glue

Spray the glue from a distance of 8- 10 inches from the surface. Here we chose the super slippery CD to glitterify![yeah there is no such word as glitterify...but I am sure there will be in a few years time!!]I originally wanted to stick on a circle of felt on to the CD but the felt seemed to slip off and we didnt have the patience to put a weight on it or allow it time to dry.

Add sequins and glitter

So on went a generous sprinkling of glitter and sequins.

gorgeous glitter - sequin  covering

Dont you just love the thick shimmery coating! But if you poke at it some sequins will fall off! 

Verdict- avoid sequin- glitter combination while spray gluing or alternatively spray between the layers.And glitter sticks better to paper and plastic than a CD.

Sospeso Transparente 

I added Sospeso Transparente blooms and a few heat embossed parchment flowers and pearls  to my glittery red background .

Sospeso Transparente 

My kiddo was quite critical of how this altered CD looked and kept suggesting how to improve it but try as I might it didnt quite reach her standards!

Sospeso Transparente 

2. Altering curved and odd shaped objects
Many of us love beautifying objects we buy or have at home. Covering with pattern paper and painting are the most popular ways to alter something but if the object had lots of curves regular gluing can be quite tricky .

Altered art

Here is the boring cello-tape cutter and pen-stand my kiddo and I altered using E6000 spray and good old glitter.

Spray glue

Here is my little crafter using the spray glue .When I spray paint I usually dont allow her anywhere in the vicinity so that she wont inhale toxic paint fumes but since the spray glue was non toxic I allowed her to use it to her hearts content!
The glue dries pretty fast so you have be ready to sprinkle on your glitter on the sprayed surface!

See uniform cover of glue and glitter

I love how the spray glue leaves a thin uniform layer of glue on the object it is sprayed on [ as you can see by the white film of glue in the picture above] and this helps to get a beautiful uniform covering of glitter.

Glittered Stationary set

We used silver and blue glitter to get a 2 toned effect.

Heartfelt creations flowers

The heat embossed parchment[vellum] flowers were made using the heart felt creations sun kissed fleur stamp and die set.

Heart felt creations flowers

I inked the embossed flowers with distress inks to match the glittery blue background !

Pen Stand Set

3.Using with Stencils

If you are a seasoned crafter you will be well versed with different ways to use stencils but if you are a novice here are 2 simple tutorials showing how to use Stencils: Stencil Art tutorial , Stencil Glitter Art tutorial . 

What is especially wonderful about using spray glues with stencils is its super quick and easy. 

Though I have shown 2 small sized projects here , you can hand-cut / die cut or use store bought stencils [ Crafters Corner has some beautiful Stencil designs] to quickly decorate large surfaces for eg a birthday party. Wouldnt it be fun to stencil a child's name  in glitter on balloons or banners for a fun birthday party...the ideas are unlimited!

Stencil + Glitter

Tape the stencil to paper/ cardboard/ thermocol/ balloon or whatever it is you want to add glitter to . You can use any kind of glitter.....sophisticated glitters such as the yummy distress glitter I have shown above or local glitters for your first experiments.

Spray stencil

Place the Paper- stencil on a plastic sheet and spray from a distance of 8- 10 inches. I gave just 2 squirts and got a nice even coverage as shown below.

Sprayed stencil

Pour glitter on the stencil

Glitter

You can smear the glitter on gently with your fingers to help improve adhesion.

Tap off glitter

Tap off excess glitter and remove the stencil from the paper.

Stencilled Lord Ganapathi

I was surprised myself at how beautiful it looked

Stencilled Glittered Ganapathi

Here you can see the neat stenciling...no mess unlike liquid glue and it was so quick too!

Spray Glue Art

Since it was my first experiment and frankly I hadnt expected such good results I hadnt taken much care to mask off areas of the die cut , so if you look closely you can see glitter on the edges of my die cut where the spray glue had fallen and glitter adhered!

And since my first try turned out so good , here is another one using a Christmas tree stencil.

Stencil + Spray glue

Tape stencil to paper

Stencil + Spray glue + Glitter

Add glitter generously and even smear gently with your fingers[ yeah maybe you dont need to touch and get your fingers glittery... its just an obsessive compulsive habit of mine!]

Glitter + Spray Glue

Tap off the excess glitter, whip off the stencil and "Ooh and Aah " at the beauty you created!

Glitter + Spray Glue

Now a super important tip: Dont forget to wash your stencils quickly. In my excitement at the gorgeous results of my experiment I forgot about cleaning my stencils and found that the glitter had stuck on quite fast and strongly to the plastic surface of the stencil! I had to actually use a brush and vigorously scrub for several minutes before I could get the glitter off! Goes to show that the glue spray is pretty strong!

Glitter stuck on stencil

4.Gluing something extremely thin 

Plastic sheets

Spray glue is the ideal adhesive if you want to glue something super thin and flimsy such a plastic wrapping material or foil quickly and easily.
You could use red tacky tape too for that but red tacky tape gives you no leeway..once you stick something on it...you cant change your mind and try and re-position it! With glue spray you do get a little margin of time to fiddle around with your positioning [ very handy for the perfectionist trait in all of us!]as it does not create an instant bonding but takes a little time like other wet glues.

Spray glue and stick

I had this roll of wood grain design plastic sheet which was so thin I really couldnt use it for anything apart from wrapping gifts[ a waste to use such a pretty design to wrap gifts!]Sprayed the E 6000 glue on the plastic and  gently stuck it on a sheet of card.

Super adhesion

I was thrilled at how easy and mess free it was and I didnt even get wrinkles! This one is yet to be turned into a crafty project.
5.Gluing Metal and Foam

Metal Cans

Metal and foam are both especially tough materials to stick things on. Normal PVA glue is messy and takes a lot of patience and time. Red Tacky tape is perfect to glue metal and foam and I have shared projects in this post : 12 Red Tacky Tape Projects but I wanted to see how well the glue spray worked so
I tried to alter the tin cans shown above by spraying glue and sticking textured foam sheets

Foam on Metal

In a review I like to share exactly what a product does so that when you use it you know exactly what to expect.In the picture above you can see the foam sheet lifting up at the edges and if you pull it at this point it will lift right off the metal tin.....well does that mean the spray glue wont work on metal...well NO...it works beautifully on metal...but you have to actually hold the surfaces together to allow it to bond! I was expecting a super quick adhesion like the red tacky tape forgetting that the spray glue is actually a mist of liquid glue.

Metal + foam

I used masking tape to hold the edges together in the yellow tin and just plain finger pressure on the orange tin and within minutes I got perfect adhesion.

Heartfelt creations Flowers

Added Parchment flowers made using my current favorite Heartfelt creations sun kissed fleur stamp- die set.

Parchment flowers

6.Gluing intricate punch outs and die cuts
Nowadays die designs are becoming more and more intricate and beautiful  but gluing them to your projects with normal white PVA liquid glue can be tricky especially if your die cut is white!

Intricate die cuts

           Gluing delicate Martha Stewart punch outs and lacy die cuts  using regular glue can be so time consuming...you end up either missing lots of those delicate curves or end up squishing too much liquid glue which oozes out and leaves marks on your project when you stick it. I am sure you have wished like me that there was an easier way to firmly glue down those delicate paper cut outs we all love.

Delicate Die cuts

        The spray glue comes in quite handy here as you can get a gentle mist of glue on your delicate die cut/punched out paper with just one or 2 squirts and stick it on easily . When I read some of the online reviews on the spray glue this particular use of the spray adhesive seems to be quite popular among crafters

Tombow Glue Pen

      Another alternative adhesive for gluing delicate die cuts is the glue pen...the one shown above by Tom bow can be used just like a pen to roll over a thin line of glue over tiny areas.
7.Decoupaging
When you hear decoupage...the ever popular adhesive -sealant "modpodge" or other specialzed decoupage liquid glues come to mind! But successful decoupaging with Modpodge is a process requiring patience and finesse!

Decoupaging Plastic

Well how about if you are in a mood for a quick decoupage session with minimal mess, no brushes and little fuss....get out your  glue spray and spray it on!!

Decoupaged Box

In this altered project I sprayed both the paper and the plastic box with glue spray and while I sprayed the paper I made  sure I had a glue mist on all the edges so that it wouldn't lift off at the edges in future .

Decoupaged Box

I used only my hands to firmly adhere the paper on to the plastic surface as unlike Mod podge there  is not much liquid glue to squeeze out or wrinkle your paper.

Decoupaged Box

Kept the embellishment simple with just a handmade rose and some Sue Wilson faux quilled die cut leafy branches

Spellbinders Rose

The little shimmery white flowers are again embossed parchment flowers made using the same Heartfelt creations sun kissed fleur set I have been using in many of the projects in this post

Decoupaged Box Set

And here is the glue spray decoupaged box with matching penstand and paper holder decoupaged using modpodge...you actually cant make out any difference!

Yeah that's it for now folks...7 ways to use the Glue Spray E 6000. Thank you so much for staying with me till the end!
I do hope you enjoyed this lengthy write-up...do tell me how it is.

List of products showcased: All available at Crafters Corner

Adhesives
E6000 Spray Adhesive
Mod Podge
Decoupage materials
Foam Tapes
Red Tacky Tape
Tombow Glue Pen

Sospeso Transparente
Sospeso Transparente  Materials

Embossing
Ranger Heat Embossing gun, Embossing Powders
Stamps
Heartfelt Creations Sun kissed fleur and leaf Stamps
StampPads/Inks
Distress Ink - Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Peacock feathers,wild honey
Dies
Heartfelt Creations Sun kissed fleur Dies,Sue Wilson Faux Quilled Leaf , Spellbinders Rose creations, Heartfelt creations leaf ,Nesting Circles, Marianne Anja Leaf
Die cutting : Big Shot, Cheery Lynn  metal plate adapter,
Misc
Stencils
Glitter