Tutorial - Making Corrugated Cardboard

This is a very inexpensive embellishment. You will need a piece of a cardboard box and a plastic floss pick as shown in the photo on the left.

Insert the pointed end of the pick between the first two ribs that are glued together. Shown in photo 2.

Holding the pick at a 45 degree angle between the already freed corrugations and the top layer of the cardboard, gently push the pick downward. (photo 3)

It may take you a few tries to find the angle and pressure that work best for you.

PearlEx and Glue Tutorial

Sweet Grass Stamps has some very lovely stamps. This phrase was sent to me to use in a Design Challenge with Stampers Quest online e-zine.

The colorful textured border on the left of the card is made with PearlEx pigment and mica powders and white glue. There are several ways to achieve this look. All of them extremely messy. My preferred method is to:

1. Using card stock of choice, spread on a thin coat of a mix of diluted white glue. I usually have Elmer's on hand.

2. Dab a mid sized paintbrush in a seperate container of diluted glue, then pickup some PearlEx powder.

3. Dab the brush that is loaded with the PearlEx powder onto the glue covered cardstock.

4. Keep repeating this with process with various colors of PearlEx powder until your cardstock is covered.

5. At this point you can add more sparklies. Like glitter, embossing powders, just about anything that will stick in the glue.

6. Now heat it with the heat gun. The glue will bubble and become textured. The more glue you have the wilder the texture is going to be.

Other ideas:

1. more glue and PearlEx can be added after the first heating

2. Stamp over the finished product and emboss with a gliltzy embossing powder

3. right after finishing up with the heat gun you can slightly smush down the bubbles if they are

too large.

4. antique with a permanent ink by dusting the tops of the texture with your ink pad

5. put fibers in the glue before heating

6. try different methods of getting the glue and Pearl Ex together on your cardstock

some like to put a thick layer of glue on the cardstock and sprinkle the powder over the glue

and then heat - much tidier

7. do a lot of them while you have the mess out, then they are available for various projects

I work on quarter or half sheets, then cut to fit the project I am working on

Tutorial - Stencils and Glimmer Mists

Glimmer Mist Smushed background stamped

with black and brown inks. The metallics in the Glimmer Mists

"float" over the black ink.

For a very detailed and cistinct image embossing is advised.

This technique looks so difficult, but trust me, it's easy,

maybe a little (ok, a lot) messy.

The results are spectacular.

I regret that the subtle shimmer of the Glimmer Mists

cannot be seen in these picture.

SUPPLIES

for this project I used

2 half sheets of white card stock

stencil (no idea where I got this, it is part of my "Someday" stash)

Glimmer Mists or any misted spray coloring, 1 each dark and light

craft sheet or old magnetic photo page

lots of newspapers

iron or heat gun if desired

1. Spread newspapers over a large work area.

These misted sprays diffuse over an amazingly long way.

Now place the craft sheet in the center.

Place 1 half sheet of cardstock on craft sheet

and then lay stencil over the paper.

2. Shake your bottle very well. Make sure all the glimmery goodie

is off the bottom of the bottle. Do several test sprays to avoid splotches.

Mist with darker color - note the liquid beading up on the stencil -

it is easy to apply too much.

Leave the stencil in place over the paper.

This is your POSTIVE image.

3. Carefully position the second sheet of card stock over the

already misted paper and stencil. This will be your NEGATIVE image.

4.Once paper is in place, hold with one hand and gently rub over

surface with the other to pick up all that color that is beaded up on the stencil.

5. Remove the negative image sheet and then the stencil.

There it is! It was so easy!

6. With the postive and negative image sheets side by side

you are ready to mist then again with the lighter color.

I used Glimmer Mists Huckleberry as my dark color

and Timeless Lilac as my light color.

7. Drying finished product - yup, it's going to be soggy.

It can be ironed, dried with a heat gun or air dried.

I prefer air drying until only very slightly damp,

then placing between mutilple sheets of scrap paper

and putting it under a heavy book over night. (great use

for the unused college dictionary) The scrap

paper absorbs the rest of the moisture.

This card shows will give you an idea of what you can do

with a little spray and a stencil.

The flourish stamp is by Basic Grey and the phrase by PSX.

The background was talced first to avoid strays,

then stamped with VersaMark and embossed with fineline black.

The edges were sponged with black in to softly

frame the whole and add that special "finishing touch".