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Learn How To Color Jewelry Charms With Embossing Powder

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by Kyriakos Pachadirolgou

Learn How To Color Jewelry Charms With Embossing Powder

With summer being just around the corner, be ready by making a sea-themed bracelet for your vacation swag. Use the Mboss embossing powders to cover metallic charms, such as starfish, seahorses, and anchors, to add color to them. This tecnique is simple and not too demanding to make; match it to your color palette of choice and add even more Mboss-ed charms.

Skill: Advanced
Time: 1 hour

Directions


Step 1

Press the metallic sea-themed charms on the VersaMark watermark ink pad, cover with the different colors of Mboss embossing powders and heat set. The VersaMark is a tacky ink and will stick to the metal charms long enough to receive the embossing powder.


Step 2

Cut 3 x 10 inch long pieces of the wax cord (you will adjust the length of the bracelet later) and secure them at one edge.


Step 3

Add just a small drop of On Point Glue to the other edge of the cords to keep them from fringing.


Step 4

Start adding beads and the charms you covered with Mboss Embossing Powder in step one to each of the three cords.


Step 5

When you have about 2 inches of the cords filled with beads and charms, place all cords through a large hole bead. This will give your bracelet some nice structure, but it is an optional step. Repeat steps four and five until you have around 7 inches of bracelet.


Step 6

Continue adding beads and charms and at 7 inches long secure the edges and add the closing caps. Adding a chain to once cap will make the the length of the bracelet adjustable. Add the hook to the other cap.

Never made jewelry before? Click here to see a post about some basics of jewelry making.

Supplies

Imagine
Other
  • Heat tool
  • Glass and metallic beads
  • Sea themed metallic charms
  • Jewelry clasps, hooks, lobster locks, chain
  • Waxed purple cord
  • Pliers

Learn How to Use Radiant Neon Amplify! for Bright Results

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by Neva Cole

This month our challenge was to create texture for the “Can You Feel Me?” concept. Neon Amplify is the ultimate texture product! I thought about ways I could use Amplify with mask sections of the card and came up with the following technique that uses painter’s tape and left-over sticker sheets. Never to waste product, the excess Neon Amplify! is brayered off on cardstock then used for the die cut sentiment. This technique is fun, messy and a great way to create a card that will brighten someone’s day with a colorful smile!

Skill: Intermediate
Time: 45 minutes

Directions

Neva Cole creates a handmade card with Tsukineko’s Radiant Neon Amplify. yellow, pink, orange, texture, die cut, masking tape, heat tool, die cut, xyron.

Step 1

Apply low-tack painters tape to a section of sticker backing sheet. The backing from a Xyron X machine is used here. Run the layer through and die cut ric rac.

Neva Cole creates a handmade card with Tsukineko’s Radiant Neon Amplify. yellow, pink, orange, texture, die cut, masking tape, heat tool.

Step 2

Apply painter’s tape to the card front and press down for good adhesion. The tape may be pieced to maximize the use of the die cut pieces.  100-pound weight card stock is used for the card as it will hold up to more aggressive techniques and allows the painter’s tape to be removed without damaging the cardstock.

Step 3

Apply Neon Amplify! in various colors in the open sections between the ric rac shape painter’s tape mask. Electric Pink, Electric Orange, and Electric Yellow are used here.

Step 4

Use an acrylic brayer to spread the Neon Amplify! in the open areas. Notice the extra section of painter’s tape to protect the open section of the card.

Step 5

Brayer excess Neon Amplify! onto a section of cardstock. Quickly clean the brayer with a baby wipe or warm running water.

Step 6

Heat card front with a heat gun to activate puffy texture in Amplify. When the Neon Amplify! is fully cured and puffed up, remove painter’s tape.

Step 7

Using the cardstock with the extra Neon Amplify! die cut the sentiment. Adhere the sentiment with On Point Glue.

 

Supplies

Imagine
Other
  • Cardstock
  • Low-tack painter’s tape
  • Xyron backing sheet
  • Sizzix – Loops & Ric Rac
  • Echo Park – Sentiment Word Die Set
  • Acrylic brayer
  • Heat Gun
  • Die Cut Machine with extended plates

Commemorating Life Events with Love Tutorial

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This January our theme is Wintergreen and New Beginnings. We have been impressed by all the great work in our blog this month and are over the moon with the results of our challenge. In this post, Imagine artists Allison Heikkila and Neva Cole create two brightly hued cards using Wintergreen and express themes other than New Beginnings.

by Allison Heikkila

 

Allison Heikkila creates a Wintergreen sympathy card using Versacolor and Delicata.

Card makers love to make joyous cards, commemorating wonderful life events such as birthdays, weddings, graduations, etc. Unfortunately, we also need to make cards for sad things such as the passing of a loved one. It’s always good to have a few of these on hand because I know that for me when I lose someone, I do not want to make a card. So, it’s best to have these done ahead of time. Below is a simple card that can be done in any color range you like. I went with this month’s color choice from Imagine — Wintergreen.

For this card, I started off with cardstock and cut it to 5 1/4″ x 3 3/4.” I rubbed the Seafoam Versacolor across the top and covered about 1/3 of the paper. Next, I used the Mint Versacolor and covered another third of the paper. I finished it up with the Celadon All-Purpose ink on the bottom third. I heated the paper with a heat tool so that it would dry. I stamped my sympathy image with Evergreen Versacolor and heat embossed it with Imagine’s clear embossing powder. I roughed up the edges a bit with the blade of my scissor. I inked up my card base with Shimmery Silver Delicata ink to add some shine. This card came together very quickly, and again, it’s always good to have a few of these on hand. You can try it in any combination of colors, though I like to keep this style of card soft in color.

Supplies

Imagine
Other
  • Stampendous stamp – Those We Love
  • Mixed media paper
  • Heat tool

by Neva Cole

Neva Cole uses Kaleidacolor to color vellum for a Happy Anniversary card.

I am very blessed to be married to my husband and found the perfect sentiments to create a wonderful anniversary card. A few months back Imagine and CAS-ual Fridays Stamps conducted a blog hop and it was an opportunity to get to know this fun stamp line. There were so many sentiments in the Big Treble and Love Notes sets that I couldn’t resist creating a background with Kaleidacolor ink on glossy cardstock. To continue the color theme of wintergreen the vellum is brayered on the back with Kaleidacolor. To top it off, the Heartbeats and Happy Anniversary images were stamped in VersaFine Majestic Blue and heat embossed with Iridescent Embossing Powder to give it just a bit of glimmer and shine. I think it makes for a masculine looking card with just the right sentiment!

Supplies

Imagine
Other
  • CAS-ual Fridays Stamps–Heartbeats, Love Notes
  • Glossy white cardstock
  • Vellum
  • Brayer
  • Heat tool
  • Fiber or ribbon
  • Hole punch

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Bright Beginnings with All-Purpose Ink

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by Elina Stromberg

Imagine Artist Elina Stromberg focuses on bright beginnings in 2017 with a candle set made with Tsukineko’s All Purpose ink and Fantastix.

A new year has started. Let it be filled with love, joy, happiness and sweet memories. To celebrate, I decorated two candles with flowers and a golden 2017 then lit the candles on the New Years Eve to give 2017 a beautiful bright beginning. Candles can easily be decorated with tissue paper. The images are either stamped or hand drawn on thin tissue paper and then attached on the candle with a heat tool. Now I can light them whenever a sweet memory is created this year!

Directions

Imagine Artist Elina Stromberg focuses on bright beginnings in 2017 with a candle set made with Tsukineko’s All Purpose ink and Fantastix. She creates a mask with post-its in this photo.

Step 1

Cut a strip of tissue paper with the length equaling the candle circumference. and the width enough to fit the images.

Step 2

Stamp flower images on post-it notes and cut out to create a stamping mask.

Step 3

Stamp a flower garland onto white tissue paper using Onyx Black VersaFine ink and your masks created in step 2. Place a post-it note mask on the stamped flower to layer the images; images stamped over the mask appear on the background of the protected image. Stamp year on a separate piece of tissue paper using Golden Glitz Delicata ink.

Imagine Artist Elina Stromberg focuses on bright beginnings in 2017 with a candle set made with Tsukineko’s All Purpose ink and Fantastix. Color the flowers with All Purpose ink.
Step 4

Paint flowers and leaves with All-Purpose Inks, using Fantastix brushes.

Imagine Artist Elina Stromberg focuses on bright beginnings in 2017 with a candle set made with Tsukineko’s All Purpose ink and Fantastix.

Step 5

Fussy cut around the layered flower image, leaving a thin border around the flowers. Closed areas between flowers can be left uncut.

Imagine Artist Elina Stromberg focuses on bright beginnings in 2017 with a candle set made with Tsukineko’s All Purpose ink and Fantastix. Use a heat tool to set the image.

Step 6

Place stamped tissue paper on the candle. Heat gently with the heat gun until the candle starts to melt. Melted paraffin wax adheres the tissue paper on the candle, and white tissue paper areas become invisible. Start with the stamped flowers and finish the project with attaching gold colored 2017.

Imagine Artist Elina Stromberg focuses on bright beginnings in 2017 with a candle set made with Tsukineko’s All Purpose ink and Fantastix.

Supplies

Imagine
Other
  • White tissue paper
  • Candle(s)
  • Post-it notes
  • Altenew – Flower stamps
  • Acrylic stamping block
  • Stampers Anonymous – Number stamps
  • Heat gun
  • Scissors

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