Tuesday 6 December 2011

Christmas 2011 - Tag 6 - Metal embossing

Wow, today's tag from Tim was certainly different! Sticking metal foil to glossy card seems a bit extravagant to me when mirror card is readily available though, and besides, I don't actually have any adhesive metal foil, so I'm using silver mirror card.

"Tag 6"

Finally, I got the chance to use one of my new embossing folders from the Sizzix sale :) . An A6 piece of mirror card was embossed with a Texture Fades embossing folder, then coloured with promarkers (I didn't have any of the paints that Tim used). On this occasion, I avoided the letters leaving them silver. If you prefer, you can just colour the whole thing, then remove promarker ink from raised areas with a blending pen and a piece of kitchen roll. At this point, you can grunge it up a bit with some black acrylic paint, but I really like this bright metallic look for Christmas, so just left it "as is".

"Ornament"

Another recent purchase was this Mover & Shaker ornament die & the "Joy" insert. They were used to die-cut shrink plastic, which was then shrunk to size.

"Reindeer"

Both reindeer were also die-cut from shrink plastic and shrunk.

"Reindeer"

After shrinking, all the plastic pieces were triple heat-embossed with silver embossing powder (the cheap stuff works fine for this). These pieces can also be used as charms if you punch a hole in the plastic before shrinking. Here, the deer are stuck to the tag with Pinflair, and the bauble had a loop of silver thread tied around its neck before attaching to a length of silver ribbon passed through the top of the tag.

Entered for the following challenges:
Cards for Men - "2" (2 reindeer)
Crafty Cardmakers - Heat embossing
Lawnscaping challenge - Tags

16 comments:

  1. It's nice to see someone else likes shrink plastic. I have made some little charms for my tags as well. I think I might have to invest in the deer die since your deer charms are so adorable. The delicacy of their legs is amazing.

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  2. I love your tag! It's fantastic! And these small deer! It's amazing!

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  3. Never thought of using mirror card it looks really fab .........I used run of the mill kitchen foil ! Love your reindeer x

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  4. This is really gorgeous Maddy, the colours are amazing. And I love your reindeer. Lee x

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  5. Gosh this is fabulous and so creative, stunning colours and great embossing.

    Marie

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  6. This is nice!!! Fantastic colors and love how you created the whole thing your way!!!

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  7. Love this tag and love that reindeer :-)
    Thanks for playing with us at Lawnscaping
    xx Tamara

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  8. Love the colours on this, great tag and the reindeer looks awesome.

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  9. Wow fabulous embossing, and the colours are gorgeous. Thanks for joining us at CFM, good luck with the challenge. hugs Shirleyxxx

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  10. I wouldn't have known you didn't use foil if you hadn't said! Beautiful tag - I love how vibrant the colours are over the silver, and heat embossing the shrink plastic is a great idea.

    Thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers this time.

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  11. Oh, wow, this is super amazing!!! GORGEOUS colors--I agree with you keeping it bright! :) Found you via CFM. :)

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  12. Your tag looks fabulous, I think the bright colours look great. The heat embossed shrink plastic pieces look wonderful, such a clever idea for embellishments.

    Thanks so much for sharing with us at Crafty Cardmakers.

    Feebsy
    xx

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  13. Wow, this is GORGEOUS! I love that you colored the background with markers! This tag is too pretty to give away with a present. It should be the present itself! Thanks for playing along with Lawnscaping this week!

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  14. Fabulous! Love the bright metallic colours and the shrink plastic embellishments. Thanks so much for playing along with the Crafty Cardmakers.
    Jenni x

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  15. Oh my goodness, those are fantastic! You seriously need to film a video tutorial. I need to know how to make these! Thanks so much for playing with us at Lawnscaping!

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