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Great Ball of Glitter & More*
from
the online class on Quietfire
Creations Forum, Thursday October 21, 2010
©2010 Yogi Grunwald
*links
go to www.quietfiredesign.ca
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you are finished looking at the new page, just close it and
you will return here!
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Instructions
Yogi
purchased clear Xmas Ornaments from a major crafting store, then went
to town with the glitter.
There
are 4 ornaments and each ornament references the individual glitter
colors used.
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Glitter Ball #1:
Bronze,
Dark Gold, Orange, Regal Red, Chartreuse, Warm Highlights, Rose,
White.
Spray the inside
of the ornament with the Easy Tac, keeping the nozzle right
at the opening, turning and spraying again until the inside
has a nice coating. Note: you don't want a puddle of spray,
but just a nice misting.
Drizzle one of
the glitter colors inside (not too much), and shake to coat
the sides, continue putting more glitter inside and shaking
until you have a nice coating. I used Chartreuse, Rose, Warm
Highlights.
If you are using
the wide tape rather than a sheet, you'll need to put a piece
of release paper on the other side of the tape (you know those
release papers you stash away for just such an occasion).
Die cut the Sookwang
Tape 5" wide or sheet using a couple of the large very
curly shapes and a couple from the one that looks like a small
curved staff. Apply them to the glass ornament only removing
a small piece of release paper at a time, pressing it onto the
ornament and then removing the rest of the release paper as
you apply it to the glass. Note: if you take the release paper
off all at one time, you'll probably end up with a holy mess.
Remove the top
release paper and sprinkle with Bronze glitter.
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Ink up your Cherish
stamp with the Essential Glue pad (re-ink the pad so it's nice
and juicy), press down on the ornament and then lift.
Note: do not put
stamp on acrylic block it will be too difficult to follow the
contour of your ornament. Sprinkle with the Bronze.
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On a separate piece
of glitter tape (tape onto which you have already applied glitter
to), sprinkle with white, burnish well and clean off any excess
glitter using a damp soft cloth. Ink up your heart stamp with
red stamp pad ink and stamp onto glitter. Clear emboss. Cut
around heart leaving a nice white border. Carefully remove the
release paper from the tip of the heart and start applying to
ornament, then continue removing release paper and pressing
down.
Use the Glue pen
to squeeze generous round dots along the flourish lines, then
sprinkle with glitter. One was done with red, one with orange.
A bunch of small dots on the bottom of the ornament were sprinkled
with gold.
Add a pink toned
red, & clear floral rhinestone.
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Glitter Ball #2:
Warm
Highlights, Dark Gold, White
Cut pieces of Sookwang
tape in triangular and odd straight edged shapes and apply them
to the ornament, removing release paper after each is applied
and overlapping tape to create a patchwork effect. Leave some
open spaces too. Do only one side at a time. Sprinkle with Warm
Highlights, burnish well and wipe off excess. Repeat on the
other side in same manner.
Use the 2 medium
sized dies (from the Spellbinders Snowflake set) to die cut
shapes from the snowflake set using the tape sheet or
tape with release paper on both sides. Apply to ornament, leaving
the top release paper on.
Apply Ecoline inks
to the outside of the ball, using the pipettes randomly, misting
with a bit of water, dabbing with a paper towel to remove any
drips. You'll see the inks run and merge and follow crease lines
and open spaces. Dry thoroughly. You can speed the drying with
a hair dryer.
Remove release
paper from snowflakes and sprinkle with gold. Burnish well.
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Stamp the word
Snow on a piece of tape sprinkled with White, using a purple
stamp pad and clear emboss. Cut it out with the oval shape from
the Fancy Tags die set.
Apply to ornament
and add some red Glitter dots. Add glitter dots to star points
and various rhinestones.
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Glitter Ball #3:
Cool
Highlights, Stardust
Dispense the alcohol
inks straight from the bottle to the outside of the ornament
- a very little at a time and rotated the ornament to move it
where you want it.
Die cut some snowflake
shapes using the 2 medium sized dies from the tape sheet or
tape with release paper on both sides. Apply to ornament, Remove
top release paper and sprinkle some with Cool Highlights &
others with Stardust. Note: one is more transparent than the
other.
Mask your Snowflake
word stamp, inking only the word Snowflake with the Glue pad,
press down on the ornament and then lift.
Note: Make sure
ink pad is juicy and do not put stamp on acrylic block it will
be too difficult to follow the contour of your ornament. Sprinkle
with the Stardust.
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Same view as image above but done on black background to see
better contrast of word and snowflake
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Glitter Ball #4: Black,
Warm Highlights, Dark Gold, Chartreuse
Dribble Jones Tones
Plexi glue in a random loop design. Sprinkled Black Glitter
all over, shake most of it off and allowed the glue to dry overnight,
then brushed the balance of glitter away. Repeated with other
side.
Now have fun using
all kinds of coloring agents to fill in the spaces. She explains:
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I
wanted something more opaque on top to hide the prongs
so I used Sakura Soufflé pens.
The purple on the upper left and marine blue on the right
are Bic Alcohol markers (I tried Copic markers and they
didn't work very well - no color). All those splotchy
sections are alcohol inks dribbled into each other. I
also painted some plain alcohol ink sections around the
bottom. Small loops have various colored glitter. I had
a couple spaces open and thought I'd try Lumieres. They
work, but need a couple coats to even out the streaks.
I used Sakura Glaze pens that worked really nice. The
Sakura Metallic pens did not work - they never dried,
so removed them.
When all done, the
glass was too transparent so I sprayed some glue to the
inside and sprinkled with Warm Highlights.
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To
see more details from this Glitter Ball on Yogi's site, click
here.
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And
More!
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The side folded
card was spliced at the fold with approximately a 1/4 overlap
to make a 5.5"w x 3.25"h card.
Cut a
- 3.5" square silver piece,
- a 3.2" square brown piece,
and a
- 5.25"w x 3"h silver
piece.
Die cut 3 white
circles 6th size up for card and 3 from the 3rd size up for
name plate. Dry emboss and using the die as a stencil sponge
Distress on both sides. Mimic the streaks of a sky. Mist with
water and dry with hair dryer.
Ink the large flourish
stamp with a juicy glue pad, and keeping the circle die in place,
stamp your design, remove die, sprinkle with glitter (orange
or copper), put excess glitter that falls off naturally into
container, press glitter on flourish down with the release paper,
dry with heat tool, when cool, lightly brush off any excess
glitter. Note the glitter is not scratch resistant so care must
be taken. It can be protected with a coat of Krylon Clear Finish.
Carefully score
the circle in half (you can jump over the flourished areas if
you want) and fold. Repeat on other 2 circles.
Sewing: Open one
circle flat and center on brown cardstock, then sew down the
middle starting at the colored area and ending at the colored
area. Pull front thread to back and tie knots, trim. Butt the
next circle to one side of the center circle and sew down center
fold line. Your lines should be almost touching each other on
the back, that's how close you want them to be. Pull thread
to back and tie. Repeat with last circle butting up to other
side of center circle. Adhere this element to the silver square.
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ornament detail
Cut the textured
word set apart and place desired words on acrylic block.
Dust silver cardstock
with anti static bag, ink stamps with pigment ink and stamp
as shown on card. Emboss with copper embossing powder.
Place copper Peel-off
Border lines pleasingly around the edge jumping over words if
necessary (I always have spaces for words to jump out, gives
a freer feeling). Adhere to front of card. Then adhere the square
piece as shown on card. Finally add ribbon and either make a
hanging line with a silver gel pen or a piece of silver thread.
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Name Plate size: 6"w x 4"h (top
fold)
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Cut and score brown
cardstock to make 5.5"w x 2.5"h top fold card. Cut
silver to 2.5" square & brown to 2.25" square,
and another silver piece to 4.75"w x 2.75"h, then
cut a piece of clear plastic the exact same size.
Cut slits in your
brown card at .7" and 4.7" from the left side and
the height of your silver/clear cardstock (2.75") and centered
vertically (.3" border on top and bottom).
Adhere copper
border on top and bottom approx .1" from edge and .4"
from right edge. Adhere clear plastic piece on either end with
a very thin piece of double sided tape. (it will be hidden under
slits of card). Push silver/clear piece through slits and adhere
to inside back of card.
Create and adhere
ornament piece same as card but using the small flourish.
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