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Extreme Quickutz, Part II Going Metal with your GooseBumpz by Darlene Johnson Calloway, Guest Diva
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OK, if I didn't hook you on using Quickutz GooseBumpz with my first article, after you see these awesome metallic GooseBumpz creations, you will definitely be hooked. Last article, we went over some of the ways to use your Quickutz embossing dies with paper, and now we are moving into metal tape. For these layouts, I use the silver colored aluminum tape that you can get at Home Depot (no it probably isn't acid free so use copies of your favorite photos) and copper tape that if you are lucky enough to live up where there is a slug problem you can buy as copper slug tape (but it is only about 1 ¼ thick so you may need it wider for some of the projects). 4" x 4" Copper sheets are also available through LumpyStuff. |
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Corners & Frames In A Mother's Love layout, I used silver metallic tape to create embossed corner mounts, a metallic embossed background 'A' (see close-up), fun foam under tape with gesso to create the antiqued 'lasts' word and FOREVER was cut from silver metallic tape and painted with black gesso. Watch our next article for more on fun foam! |
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| Here is a layout, I recently completed using copper tape and the Goosebumpz Flourish Die. I took pictures of myself completing the layout to demonstrate how to create your own metal frames, metal plates, and corner mounts. The great thing about all of these fabulous metal accents besides the fact that they look super cool, is that they are super light weight unlike the real version of metal and a fraction of the cost | ||
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It is very easy to create your own custom size embossed metal frames using Goosebumpz! To create the look of real metal for my frame, I simply cut four pieces of thick matte or cardboard to the dimension of my picture. Each side is approximately ¾ inch thick and the inside is 5 by 7 to fit my photo but you can cut your board to match the size of your photos.Each end is corner cut at a 45 degree angle to give the look of joined frame edges. |
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After cutting my matte board I embossed a larger size of 1 inch wide copper tape down the entire length carefully placing the die next to the last impression. I then peeled off the backing and laid my card board frame edge down. I then mitered the edges of the tape by cutting out a triangle from the corners. |
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| Another fun and easy trick is to create embossed photo corners. For my corners I simply cut out either 1 ¼ inch or 1 inch squares, then emboss and then cut on the diagonal (see Figure 6). Just place directly on your photo for an easy and elegant photo corner. |  |
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Add Color Another great feature of the silver and copper metallic tapes is that they work GREAT with all of Tim Holtz's Adirondack Alcohol Inks from Ranger. By using these inks, you can change the color of your tape to match your layout. On the Wild Plum and Stream samples, I used the Alcohol Solution to wipe off the top part of the coloring on the embossed metal on the right side of the sample. You can also remove color from the raised area by doing an archival ink resist. Gently rub your Archival Ink pad (any color,it's coming right off!) over the raised area, then quickly before it dries, wipe with a paper towel. The Archival Ink will remove the alcohol ink under it. |
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| You can also change the look of your tape by using artist's gesso. Gesso is a material that artists use to pretreat areas they wish to paint upon. I have found that gesso will stick great to the metal unlike regular acrylic paints that tends to pool. Gesso comes in black and white and you can add color to your white if you want to change the color like I did in the copper with white and green. The gesso works best if you either just brush on a light coat to paint the raised areas or if you paint the whole thing and then sand off the raised areas. All of these samples have been sanded while the work in A Mother's Love is brushed on lightly. | ||
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You can also use StazOn Inks to color your metal tape and if you don't like the look, just use the StazOn cleaner to wipe away the ink. And many of the Quickutz die's look great in metal ie photo turns, photo corners, labels, dog tag, key etc. A Mother's Love features silver photo turns, which you have to look real close to see they aren't the real thing! I hope this has given you plenty to play with for a while. Keep on the look out for our next installment of Extreme Quickutz. |
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Part 3, Extreme Quickutz: Let's play with Fun Foam! |
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