If you saw the fabulous record book & Pendants Katrina posted on Face book and have been waiting patiently for the full instructions here they are...finally!
I used
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* Bare Chipboard
Album Tabbed
* Eco Green Acrylic
Paints - Green patina, Gold, silver and bronze
* Vintedge Collection Pack
* Vintedge Paper Twine 15yds
* Craftime Britannia Ribbons
* Exquisite Pigment
Ink - Lapis
* Craftime Britannia Laser Mesh
Sheets
How I made my book
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1. Use the fantastic
paint to paint your book. I used the green patina for the covers and the back
page then used the gold, silver and bronze for each of the tabs. Leave to
dry,
2. Trim the papers
down to fit your pages. If you like the inky look, ink around the edges with the
Lapis ink and the to add the dotty pattern
apply ink with a sponge through the mesh sheets in a random way.
3. For the front
cover I used a image from the collage sheet paper from the collection pack along
with the word London. I cut the other words with my Cricut but you could use any letters you like.
4. On the back page
I used an off cut of paper to make a pocket to add any keepsakes. Put you book
together and add the ribbons to the book rings.
So now you can make
it your own, my plan is to add the medals won as they happen to the appropriate
page and use the other pages to add memories and journalling along the way. But you could add pictures and
journalling of how you celebrated the year
the Olympics came to London.
UTEE Pendants
Before we start just a bit about the difference between normal embossing powder
and UTEE (Ultra thick embossing enamel). Embossing powder, which is very fine
granules, like powder is usually used on
top of a stamped image, although there are lots of other things you can do with
them. The granules are fine enough to
stick to the ink and keep the fine stamped lines of the image. They are then
heated with a heat gun and melt into a raised line. With UTEE the first thing
you will notice is it has much larger granules, like sugar. So not good for using
over a stamped image but great for melting and pouring into shapes and covering
large areas. Again there are lots of ways to use it and things to make with it.
If you have any questions just ask but do have a play with them, they are such
good fun. Just watch your fingers as they get very very hot!!
So here is how I
use UTEE in my melt pot. If you don't have a melt pot you can still use UTEE.
You will need a heat gun, a hair drier won't do the job as it blows air and will
just blow your powder all over your table and also its just not hot enough. You
can hold the little pie trays with a wooden peg, the tray gets very hot, and use
your heat gun to heat from the bottom till the powder melts. If you have a melt
pot though get it out, heat it up to UTEE -
I used
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* Melt Art Texture
Treads Mod Circles
* Imagination Crafts
Magi Boss Chunky Mother of Pearl
* Cosmic Shimmer
Malachite Fire 20ml UTEE
* Metal pie trays,
the small ones
* Wooden cocktail
stick
* Wooden
peg
* Melt pot or heat
gun
* Mould of some sort
like a small cookie cutter or as I used the plastic inside of a roll of
tape!
1. Put the powder
into a little pie dish
2. Place the pie
dish into the melt pot. You can just pour the powder into the melt pot but then
you have to clean it out and you can only melt one powder at a time. This way
you can get 3 pie dishes in, just. Pop the lid on and wait till it
melts.
3. In the mean time
decide where you wish to pour on the Texture tread and place your mould over the
area.
4. Once the powder
is molten carefully pop a wooden peg onto the dish as a handle and pour the
molten powder into the mould to cover the bottom.
5. As quickly as
you can put a cocktail stick into the top of your mould if you want to use it as
a pendant and leave to cool.
6. Remove from the
texture tread and push out of your mould. Then make some more!!
7. If you don't
like the way it turned out just throw it back in to the tray and re melt it and
pour it again, the same with any little bits you get, just throw them back in
the dish. Once you have finished leave all the dishes to cool, stack them on top
of each other and store. When you want to play with them again jut pop the dish
with the solid UTEE onto the hot melt pot and off you go again. You can of
course mix your powders and molten powder together if you like.
The examples were
all made this way, the top 3 were made with the mould, the one on the bottom in
the middle is a piece of sequin waste punched out with a circle punch and put at
the bottom of the mould then the mother of pearl poured over the top. The gold and blue
ones at the bottom were just poured free hand straight onto the texture tread.
I
know the texture treads are an investment but other ideas of how to use them
coming up!
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