Clear Embossing & Gilding Wax

Seems like forever since I've posted here though I've only missed one fortnight's class while recuperating from a minor operation. I'm fully functional again now so it's straight into the next atc technique that's coming up this Saturday....Clear Embossing & Gilding Wax. I've actually done this technique before but as the girls who attend my classes know, if I've done something before and repeat it, I always put a twist on it so it's new for the old girls and new for the new girls...make sense??? Well it's clear to me anyway.

Gilding Wax is a new product that we'll be selling at Scraptivate. It's like Rub'n'buff, Treasure Gold etc but I love the tins that it comes in. Rub'n'buff has always annoyed me when it dries out in the tube. Not a problem with Gilding Wax. Sometimes these products do dry out but you can reconstitute them easily in the tin by adding a few drops of Mineral Turpentine, not something you can do in a tube! So here's some samples of the new version of this technique.

"Not polite"...

"Recline"...

"Life is the flower"...

"Idiots"... (This is not my opinion of my hubby, I just liked the saying and it matched the crown)

I'll have some more samples of these using stamping in my next post. The above ones are using Cuttlebug embossing folders, but you knew that didn't you!

Here's a couple of samples from the last technique - Texture Paste Backgrounds.

"Change your life"... (I'm waiting for some little handcuff charms to arrive to add to this one!)

"Perfectly Good"...

Finally a couple from the class before Texture Paste Backgrounds - Reflective Microscope Slides. It's extremely difficult to get a good scan or photo of these because of the reflective quality of the foil tape under the glass slide. You'll just have to imagine....

"Laser printer"...

"Opportunity"... (This one's for you Barb, as I said, it's a saying that we can all relate to!)



Now a bit of news about my ATC Technique Book....it's all completed except for the printing. As soon as this last bit is done it'll be for sale through my blog. Will keep you posted!

Texture Paste Backgrounds

Texture Paste is another one of those products that has been around it seems like forever but it's one of those great standby's for when you're looking for that extra bit of dimension, it's just perfect! I've used texture paste before in my classes, several times in fact but each time I do I try to give it a little twist so the girls who have been doing my classes for several years will still learn something new about an old product. So we have texture paste backgrounds coming up in this fortnight's ATC Technique classes at Scraptivate. Samples below...

"Breath"...
"Dreamscape"..."Wild"...

"Bewitch"...

I'll have more of these to show after I've done this class again.

The atc below is one of the Glue Backgrounds from a couple of posts ago that I've just finished. It's going to be a raffle atc for the Paperarts Yahoo Group that I belong to. Each month we do a WTA (Winner Takes All) Raffle where we submit an atc and then a winner is drawn and everyone in the raffle sends their atc to that person. As a consolation prize as I don't like losers (who does!!!), I also send an atc to the loser too so they don't have to feel bad about not winning. Just a bit of fun and it's the only other atc's that I send out on a monthly basis. Apart from my raffle atc's for each of my classes that is, oh, and also apart from my naughty atc swap I do with Mands each month....come to think of it, I don't do too bad after all.

If you haven't noticed my new blog link up the top right for the naughty blog.....take heed of the warning, but if you're open minded, take a look!

"Fallen"...