Sunday 13 September 2009

substitute melt-pot!




After seeing Glenda Waterworth's recent posting of a Rudolph card made using a meltpot, we decided we would try to do something similar at craft club - no one had a meltpot, but Moira came up with the idea of using a heatgun and a foil container to melt the EP - it did work, but you need the vital accessory of a wooden clothespeg to hold the foil (or asbestos fingers). This is the card I made, using the new Elusive Images Christmas tree stamps - one deep embossed, and the filigree one to make the background. The EP was a homemade colour using clear UTE with odds and ends of ordinary coloured EP - it was coloured with a mix of perfect pearls and pearl-ex powders after stamping.


The owl card was made at home using the same technique(?) - stamp again Elusive Images. DP from a download from Lesley Wharton , flower stamps also Elusive Images. This fits 2 challenges this week - Rainbow Lady's is for an owl, and Corrosive challenges provided the sketch.

14 comments:

  1. WOW! Quite impressive! The colors are fabulous, too. Thanks for playing with us on CCBJ!

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  2. wow super cards! thanks for playing:)
    hugs

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  3. Very interesting technique! I love how it turned out! Thanks for playing along!

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  4. Great technique thanks for playing with us.

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  5. Very impressive Veronica. These look brilliant.

    Lesley Xx

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  6. wow...what an eye catcher...had to click on the pix to get a better view..thanks for playing with the sketch challenge.

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  7. This is really very clever I love it. Another new technique to try. Thanks for playing again Love Cynthia x

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  8. Wow - what a clever and crafty technique! Love how it turned out!

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  9. Vron this looks fab. I'm so not sure about a melt pot but this is a very tempting alternative. :)
    As you can see I've returned to bloggerland. I just couldn't keep away. :)

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  10. Please email me your addy as you won the Dragon prize well done you.

    xx

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  11. Looks good to me! I have never bought a melt pot because I couldn't justify it for the use it would get. Foil and a peg though...I could stretch to that!

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  12. Totally adore that owl...it is soooo cute! Fab way of improvising too...I used to do that before I got a Melt Pot...I am still as dangerous with it as I was with the foil container tho LOL

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  13. Hey hun, congratulations! You guessed correctly that the sneak peek was a shoe :O)) Can you email me your addy please and I will send the stamp to you x

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