Vintage Embellishments

 

I found a free download so decided to have a play with some UTEE.  I haven't used it for ages, not since I last had my melt pot out.  I triple embossed the lower half of the picture with clear UTEE.  I left the top half until I need some more doing, as I figured I might use some somewhere without the UTEE but I did colour them all with distress inks.

UTEE Keyrings

Continuing on with my play day last Sunday later in the afternoon I got my melt pot out to make these key rings. Even though I put them on white paper, you still couldn't see them properly.

Luckily the sun was out, so I went outside and placed them all over the bush at the end of the garden, and the sun glistened through some of them.

And from a different angle.

Inchies on an Atc

Deb also chose the ATC theme for June's Paperplay swap too, atc's with inchies.

Playing with Numbers

Over at Artful Times this week they have a theme of spray away. I took this photo as I didn't want to spray too much and thought most of it might end up getting covered up.

These are the 3 sprays I used. They are all browns.

I didn't really know where I was going with it, I was just playing, but this is my finished piece. I managed to sneak in some of my gelli plate pages, along with tags, stamped images, tissue tape wooden pieces and various other bits and bobs.

Close up of the tissue tape and some the the metal embellies.

I also added a vellum and corrugated tattered florals flower and a stamped butterfly and one covered in UTEE as over at Anything But a Card they have a theme of spring forward and are suggesting butterflies and flowers.

Another close up of the stitching on the tag.

And finally a close up of the sprayed ink.

A Vintage Journey have a theme of spring flowers and I'm hoping mine qualifies as I've used two of T!M's tattered florals!!

Corrugated Tag

Over on the PaperPlay Forum we have a tag theme of leaves for this month. I used various shades of green frescos to colour all the elements, stamped the main LP image over the heart, added script to the leaf stem and the banner piece and an EV sketchy stamp to the background, all in black stazon.

The Green Man - PA Inspired

Over at the PA blog, Julie Ann has made 3 inspiring canvas projects each using a mini mask and shades of the colour green which you can see here, here and here.

I used a flat 6 x6 canvas board, gelatos to colour the background, a TH frameworks frame kindly sent to me by Lin. The mask is made from coloured UTEE, leaves are from Hero Arts. Stamping in green stazon using LP and Mini PA images. Wire twisted around a pen.

Happy Birthday Emma

Happy Birthday Emma.  It's Emma's birthday today and she loves this TH dragonfly stamp, or at least I hope she does as she now owns it!!  She also has a love of pink.  I couldn't just use pink so had to tone it down with a bit of blue for the background piece!!

This is a close up of the stamped image in the Utee with various pink and purple colours of perfect pearls.

And finally a close up of the stamped happy birthday in the brilliance triple metallics pad.

Creating Faces

I loosely painted a piece of chipboard with ice blue fresco paint, and once dried randomly slapped on some grunge paste and scored and prodded it to create some texture. The grunge paste is coloured with sapphire treasure gold to bring out the texture. The Hampton Arts image is stamped in black stazon onto crackly tissue paper to allow the texture and the colour to show through.  Finally a piece of coloured acetate was added to the eye.

Close up of the grunge paste and treasure gold.

The background of this piece was painted in stone fresco paint. Using the largest face from my new classics #5 plate I stamped in black stazon again onto crackly tissue paper and used mod podge to glue it to the background. I coloured a piece of acetate with eggplant, sail boat blue and juniper and placed it over the top.

Remember when I was playing with Utee here, this is one of the pieces I made which I've used as an embellishment.

Changing Faces

Another piece of chipboard randomly covered with grunge paste, painted with various colours of fresco, haystack, Spanish mulberry, stone and cinnamon.  I stamped the image in black stazon onto crackly tissue paper. Using my new spellbinders sprockets set I cut the gear from very thin cardboard. I coloured a piece of acetate in latte, ginger and caramel, ran it through an embossing folder and attached with T!m's tiny attacher.

I added another of my Utee embellishments.

Close up of the grunge paste texture on the background and the embossed acetate.

Christmas Baubles

Alison made THIS fab card and then sent it to me for Xmas along with some wooden snowflakes so I could have a go myself. So I didn't hold back, I totally stole her idea and got straight onto playing. 

Instead of using friendly plastic, I used coloured utee. I was going for a red, but when it had melted I realised it was actually orange, but not to worry!!  I painted the wooden snowflakes silver and added gold glitter and micro beads into the utee.

Don't you just love how it oozes thought those holes!!

Thanks Alison, not only for the idea, but for the snowflakes too.

I'm also entering my cards into the Arty Inklings crimble challenge.

Stampotiques challenge this week is Christmas cards in November.

Utee Embellishments

I've been playing with clear Utee, printed images, cookie cutters and to dye for ink and made these embellishments.  The green heart isn't as dark as it looks as it's transparent when held up to the light as I used the to dye for ink.

Close up of the middle of the butterfly.

Close up of the faces encased in the Utee.

Bezels with Utee

I was watching some Utee uploads on YouTube and came across this one by the lovely Carol Fox. Using lots of different metal embellishments in the bezel I covered them in melted Utee and then used the heat tool to get rid of the air bubbles. I like this one as the spinner still spins.

For this one I cut out a piece of coloured text paper and added a silver coloured charm. I pushed the charm into the melted Utee.

I added gold coloured mini dragonfly beads and sequins to this very small bezel and filled with Utee.

This is a 1" Ranger memory frame and therefore doesn't have a back.  I placed a charm and 3 beads inside and filled with Utee.  As you can see, it's pretty transparent.

And this is it on my craft surface, as you can see, the Utee looks more yellow.

And this one is exactly the same except I used a single butterfly charm. But I need to go back and reheat this as you can see the top right corner has a bubble in it.

And again on the craft surface.

And here are all 5 together. Sorry for the glare but I used my new daylight lamp as it was nearly dark by the time I was finished.

Stamping in Utee

Over at the PanPastelUk site this week they are challenging us to make our own embellishments.  I found this Utube video on Utee and mica powders.  As she used one of my favourite stamps I decided to use it too.  For the background I spritzed a dark blue piece of card with biscotti perfect pearls mist and outlined both pieces in white fire liquid leaf.

Close up of the stamped Utee using blue shades of perfect pearls. The image was re-stamped onto the black card using gold galaxy brilliance ink.

Then I decided to try a green one been as I had leftover Utee.  For the background I used mint perfect pearls mist on black card.

And again, a close up of the stamped Utee with the green perfect pearl powders.

Clocks and Cogs

I decided to have another go at painting with grunge paste just like Liz did on her day #1 PA project this week. So I took a large mdf cog and set to it.

I gave it several layers of brown shades of fresco paints, Irish cream, mocha mousse, chocolate pudding and French roast.

Added stamping with PA minis, alphabet, mini bricks and flourish in black archival ink.

I then stamped the PA image from ink and the dog plate, wings #3 and one penny #4 although I now have this image in the wooden variety.  I cut them up and mixed them about a bit to create one main image. Water coloured the image with my new colours of distress markers, gathered twig and evergreen bough.

And putting it all together I used the pieces I'd previously created on a T!m Holtz CC102 day using UTEE to achieve the pitted effect on the clock face and the wings, and finally added a couple of metal pieces.

Sorry the photo is rubbish, but I missed out on buying a portable daylight lamp at the show on Sunday from Clarity stamps, and the weather here is torrential rain and extremely dark, so really could of done with it!!!

Day 5 - Tarnished Silver

Day 5 and another embossing technique using metallic embossing powers and UTEE. Clock is platium, wings copper and butterfly silver.

Close up of butterfly.

And the clock face after the treatment.

Black paint added to accent the pitting effect.

I've not added them onto a tag yet!!