We have a mixture of Yellow and Gold today ...
Colouring Charms
Using our
Silver Evening Dress Charms as an example (after all, what woman doesn't want a variety of looks for her eveningwear?), we have coloured our charms with the following products:
They are also in order of how well they coloured, with Stazon being the best, but this does only apply to these smaller charms. I have used the following products on larger charms and the Stampedous came out on top of some of the tests. I think it is a personal choice and can often be up to what affect you want to create. You can also combine mediums - how cool would the Stazon and Stickles look together?? Experimentation is the key and playing with the various mediums is half the fun.
Let's get started on play time ...
Cut up a
small 23cm yellow mulberry flower into individual petals and place behind the main flower for a layered look. The flower had to be cut up, as it was too small to be placed behind in one piece, and the other mulberry flowers in stock were too large.
A quick easy way to jazz up our
Butterfly Filigrees is to add a small
yellow rose in the centre and trim half of the stem off. Attach other piece of the stem to behind the butterfly and fold both stems to create the antennas.
For those of you who subscribed to my "A Year in the Life" subscription kit back in 2011, you may remember the Christmas Tree we made from a circle .... well this dress works on the same principle!
Grab a chipboard mannequin and cover (using your finger) with
inka gold.
then turn with the point upright.
Lift up the layers of the skirt and add some
cream tulle underneath and then trim to shape.
As a final touch and to add some sparkle, wipe some
Yellow Stickles over the doily dress.
Now for one more mannequin ...
DON'T heat from above, or you will have a nice mess to clean up!
Once it is melted (this will take about a minute because of the thick
layer), you can then heat from above and press a
Kaisercraft Script Stamp into your
melted embossing powder as you do so.
(Don't worry if you miss some bits, it does stay warm long enough for you to take the stamp off the stamping block and hand stamp the remaining areas.)
Had to show this photo that DD took, the wrinkle is the embossing powder moving - you probably had to be here, but embossing powders are cool to watch.
(I think I have said this recently - I need to get a life!)
Okay while the mannequin cools down,
before attaching it to a card (that is still in progress as I am typing!).
Hope that has given you an idea or two for adding gold/yellow to your projects or
perhaps given you a new technique to add to your next creation.
Don't forget to pop over to the 20% off
Yellow & Gold Section to grab a bargain, but only until Wednesday.