HEAT-EMBOSSED EMBELLISHMENTS
What fun I have been having.
Die-cut frame centres
I recently bought a set of small frame dies, and spent a session cutting them out of scraps of card. I now save all die-cutting waste in a box, ready to make up into Luise Heinzl’s Mixed Media Masterboards, but sometimes you get bits that are immediately useful for other things. When you cut a frame, for instance, the shape that pops out of the middle is ripe and ready for stamping or other treatment, and useful for making clusters and so on.
I inked the pieces to age them, and heat-embossed some letters and numbers on these, using black embossing powder on the white ones and white on the brown ones. Then I decided to heat-emboss them again, this time covering them completely with clear embossing powder. It took several coats of this to get the desired result. I really like how in some cases the original heat embossing has remelted and spread a bit. They look like old enamel labels. The brown one at the top which says “Receipt” turned up on my desk after I’d put everything away, and I couldn’t be bothered to get it all out again just for one label, so I left it just with its white embossed lettering.
I can back them, set an eyelet and use them as dangles and charms, or I can stick them down on a page. I could also punch holes in them and add brads which will enhance the old enamel label look.
Pastry stars!
This is an example of how my weird brain works. Nothing passes before my beady eyes without being examined for art potential before hitting the recycle bin.
The other day we got this advertising flyer through the letterbox as junk mail.
I thought, “Stars! Fussy cut them, emboss them and use them!”
So I did.
They’ve curled up a bit at the edges and where I’ve tried to straighten them out, one or two cracks have appeared, but when I stick them down, I can re-heat them briefly and everything should smooth out. I love the texture of them! Nobody would think they were images destined to go on mince pies.
Here is one of them in use on the page I’ve just completed for my Typewriter Album.
Nothing, absolutely nothing goes to waste Chez Shoshi, before it’s passed the Art Test.
