Hi Everyone!! In case you haven’t noticed a theme here- I love texture! And one way to add texture to metal is with a Rolling Mill. There are plates and textures you can buy online, but what if you want to use something of your own making. Etching onto brass is one idea. You can…
Hi everyone! I am back to etching copper! I decided to play around with creating a stamp from an etching I made on the Silhouette Curio. I’ve blogged about etching on the thin foam before, but I will update with a new post because I am doing something slightly different now and getting cleaner etches…
Hi Everyone! I have been off experimenting with lots of stuff- resin, molds, metal, etching etc. I showed some friends some of my experiments and they asked for some tips on how I did Salt Water etching on copper. There are loads of full tutorials on this subject with all the gory details on why…
Last week I showed you how I make faux rust, but this week I am using real rust to make some cool embossed paper. The secret? Old, decrepit, rusted ceiling tiles. The paper came out so cool! If you liked this paper, you might need to start haunting your favorite antique stores 🙂 . Here’s…
I am all over the place lately with work, and play, so this post is going to be all over the place as well 🙂 . I have posted a couple of previous articles on embossing metal here and here. I was going to continue in that vein for the next several posts however, next…
I decided to use my own embossing plate (more on how I do that in a future video!) to make an embossed metal card for Valentine’s day. Here is the video… and here is how it turned out! I hope you have a Happy Valentine’s Day!