Gooooodly Morning Stampers and a very happy Sunday to you all. Many thanks for the fabby vintage creations you all made last week! This week is a VERY special Sunday Stamper indeedily! Before I go on waffling about that I will do the ...
Gooooodly Morning Stampers and a very happy Sunday to you all. Many thanks for the fabby vintage creations you all made last week! This week is a VERY special Sunday Stamper indeedily! Before I go on waffling about that I will do the usual housekeeping things: Firstly the challenge theme for this week is... EMBOSSING POWDERS. To join in is simples: make a little something - it can be anything you fancy. Add in the theme and some stamping and then pop back here with a link to the place you are showing your entry. If you haven't got a blog, don't worry, you can also join in via email or on Facebook. The challenge will remain open until 21:00 Saturday June 1st 2013. **entries received after this time will not be added into the prize draw**And on with the most important bit! Oh yesh, I am very honoured and proud to have been asked by Ranger to be a part of their Melt Art Mania event that they have running HERE on their blog. The event runs from May 15th through to May 31st and has tonnes of fabulous inspiration featuring, along with amazing projects by some very talented designers... hence why I am chuffed to little mint balls to be asked to be amongst these incredily clever peeps! Anyways... being as I am a part of the event, Ranger have very kindly offered up a brilliant prize... to be in with a chance of winning this box of goodies all you need to do is leave me a comment here on this post. If you join in with the Sunday Stamper as well.. you get two entries. Another important thing: if you join in any other way than on your blog, like sending me an email, you need to remember to leave a comment on this post telling me you have done that... otherwise it would be crazy to try and add in peeps names in the right order. Each comment will be assigned a number, the total comments will then be fed into Random.org and the winner chosen at random, being announced next Sunday, June 2nd. Ranger will then send out your prize directly. I think that is everything.... and on with the post! Oh yes, here's the FAB prize!!! Firstly, here's a little peep at the finished project.... but before I show you all about that, I have a little tutorial for you, making my fave Faux Jade/Turquiose. This is a technique I learned from the wonderful Suze Weinberg. Please do take time to pop over to Suze's youTube channel too... her art is amazing! Anyways... on with the tut!STEP 1Add 1/3 white UTEE to your Melt Pot and then add 2/3 clear UTEE to the pot and allow to melt thoroughly. (**HINT Always pop the lid on your Melt Pot whilst melting UTEE... it melts faster with the lid on... and also you have less chance of sticking your elbow into the melting UTEE's) Once melted give the contents a good stir to amalgamate the two together - use your Kool Tool spatula for this.STEP 2Add a generous droppage of Heat It Inks to your white UTEE mix - I have used Green - you will see it is more of a turquiose colour! You will see the UTEE bubble a bit - this is normal. Pop the lid on and allow the ink to get to the same temp as the UTEE.. this will only take a minute or so. I have found this helps the mixing in of the colour.STEP 3Give the ink/UTEE mix a really good stir using your Kool Tool spatula so the colour is uniform. If you are quick, you can also pour this while the colours are totally mixed for a cool white/colour look.STEP 4Add in Platinum UTEE using your Kool Tool as a spoon (or a plastic spoon, be careful not to dip this into the UTEE though... it will melt!) Pop the Lid back on the pot and leave to melt.STEP 5Use the tip of your Kool Tool spatula and gently marble the Platinum through the colour, you don't want to stir this as it will be all muddy, the trick is to bring one colour through the other. It is now ready to pour and become gorgeous faux jade/turquoise.And here's what you can make.... I poured the UTEE mix into a heart shaped mould (made from Mold & Pour) and once it was cooled, I lightly heated the front of it s