Happy Friday! It’s
Robin here and Altered Pages is
enjoying a month-long partnership with IMAGINE
Crafts/Tsukineko. Our team has been
having fun with the inks and other crafting supplies they have provided and their
team has been creating with Altered Pages images and ephemera. Remember to leave comments here all during June to be entered into a drawing for a great prize package!
My project today features IMAGINE Crafts/Tsukineko StazOn Spiced
Chai ink and is highlighted with one of their cool metal tags. You probably saw Ink
Stained Roni’s amazing house pendant made with one of their metal
ATCs. This is the same product but much
smaller. At 1” square it is the perfect complement
to these cool wood squares I found in the hardware bin at my local big box
hardware store.
What do you do with 1” metal and wooden squares? Inchies, of course!!
printed the Inchies
Beauty collage sheet on matte photo paper and cut it into strips. Once all of the strips were created, I ran
them all through my sticker maker. I
picked out 8 of these tiny lovelies to use on my card and trimmed each one down
leaving only the barest of white borders.
The Spiced Chai ink was sponged around each image and on the
wood square using Ink Blushers
craft sponges. StazOn is the perfect medium for this because it covers the wood, metal, and paper equally well and dries quickly.
More ink was sponged onto
the metal tag. I heat set the ink on the
tag so that I could work with it right away instead of setting it aside to
dry. DO NOT hold the tag in your bare hand during or right after heating!!
Some Dew Drops from my stash were
attached around the edges using 3D
Crystal Lacquer. A gold-tone gemstone
was set into the center of the tag.
To give each wood tile a more complete look, each one was
dipped into the ink pad one side at a time.
I chose a vintage looking pattern from one of my Glitz
paper pads for the background for the tiles, which was highlighted with dark brown and
black card stock. The tiles aren’t very
heavy, but I was worried about using regular double sided tape so each tile was
also attached with the Crystal Lacquer. It has a very dimensional appearance and vintage feeling.
The metal tag reflected behind the Dew Drops and gave them a funny cat's eye glow here. |
WOW! Totally awesome card...shoot, I'd frame it and hang it up! Way cool Robin :)
ReplyDeleteTFS!!!
I love this! Turned out awesome! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Roni I would frame as a work of art! Awesome job!!!
ReplyDeleteIndeed! When I saw this in my newsletter, that was the direction my brain went - that would be pretty framed.... LOL
ReplyDeleteLove this!
This is a great idea. love anything vintage I would make it into a wall hanging. thank you for the great idea.
ReplyDeleteHow cool! I really like it! Thanks for the great inspiration today! Have a wonderful weekend!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!!! This is much more do-able than I imagined. Thanks for the easy to follow instructions.
ReplyDeleteLove this! Thanks for the inspiration.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous Vintage Inchies Robin and a great card!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful piece, Robin!
ReplyDelete:)
This is a great project ♥
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to mixing it up.
ReplyDeleteWow, this is fabulous. I, too, would turn it into a wall hanging. Lovely!
ReplyDeleteVery cool project! I love the dimension that inking gives to your inchies
ReplyDeleteVery cool project! I love the dimension that inking gives to your inchies
ReplyDeleteI love this card! I like the antiqueness of it. Great job! SusanRandy@aol.com
ReplyDeleteVery, very cute!
ReplyDeletelove this - I would frame it for sure!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card Robin! Love the black and brown together.
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