Spellbinders Explore Beyond: Sneak Peek & Giveaway Day 6

Spellbinders Explore Beyond: Sneak Peek and Giveaway Day 6!

 

As a member of the blog team for Spellbinders, my birthday seems to come at least several times a year. At least that is what it felt like a few months back when I received a package in the mail, filled with the new product releases from Spellbinders. What artist wouldn’t want their biggest problem to be the decision of which of these amazing supplies and tools to chose to explore first? Needles to say, I have been a very happy camper.

As I looked through all these new dies, texture plates, and other tempting products, one particular item had my name written all over it – the new die template Cogs. Oh yeah. I knew these would be the ones I would use first. But wait. What is this?!?! Spellbinders is launching a new line of mixed media products called Media Mixáge! I’d been given the new Grate Works Three texture plate! And what?? Sheets of aluminum metal?!?! It just kept getting better and better.

Having chosen my main components I took a deep breath and entered mixed media heaven. When I finally came up for air, as if by magic, this appeared:

I had so much fun making this piece and want you to join me in exploring beyond. If you are a mixed media artist, this project will be great for you to see how you can integrate dies and embossing in your work. And if you are a card maker or scrapbooker, you will learn how to use found objects and hardware in your projects.

Supply List

Spellbinders Paper Art Supplies:

GC-001 Spellbinders Grand Caibur® Machine

S4-386 Cogs Spellbinders Nestabilities

MT1-005 Spellbinders Media Mixage Texture Plates Grate Works Three

MM1-004 Spellbinders Aluminum Metal

S4-116 Standard Circles Small Spellbinders Nestabilities ®

S4-302 Crown Circles Spellbinders Nestabilities ®

F-013 Spellbinders Premium Craft Foils

Preferred Promotional Partners: Imagine Crafts/Tsukineko StazOn Solvent Ink Pad, Tsukineko Versamark Stamp Pad, Imagine Crafts Inkblushers sponge

Other: 8”x10” Cradled Wood Panel, black gesso, clear stamp, acrylic block, embossing powder, scissors, heat gun, PVA adhesive glue, cardstock, brads, assorted hardware, found objects.

Start by covering the front surface and sides of the wood panel with black gesso.

Chose a clear stamp with an abstract/splatter design and place on an acrylic block.  Press into a watermark, embossing stamp pad and randomly stamp the design over the front of the panel. Pour the embossing powder over the panel until it covers entire surface. Tap off extra embossing powder. Heat surface until embossing powder melts.

Gather small, flat metal found objects, brads, and additional supplies sourced from the hardware store and from your own collection of found objects: assorted sizes of rubber, plastic, and metal washers (cup, fender, flat, serrated, star lock, etc). Chose the objects based on size and color. For the purposes of this project, hardware was limited to shades of silver, black and gray.

Gather materials to cut and/or emboss in the Grand Caibur® Machine. Use the Texture Plates Grate Works Three and emboss sheets of both the black cardstock and the silver Craft Foil. Using the scissors, trim the excess around the embossed sheets. Using the craft sponges, rub the surface of some of the embossed foil sheets to dull some of the shine and add a distressed finished.

Using an assortment of plain or embossed cardstock and Craft Foil and sheets of Aluminum Metal, cut out assorted shapes in all sizes using the Cogs, Standard Circles, and Crown Circles dies.

Create “gear sandwiches” by stacking the die cuts, flat found objects, and hardware. Insert brads into the spaces of the uppermost part of the sandwich. Once designed, glue the stacks together.

Lay out the sheets of embossed cardstock and Craft Foils, the “gear sandwiches”, and the assorted found objects on the wood panel. Be sure to stack the “sandwiches” for added dimension and let the embossed sheets overhang the edges. Attach with adhesive once the design has been selected.

After using the Texture Plates Grate Works Three as a small part of this project, I realized that there are so many more ways to incorporate this product into my mixed media art. For starters, I decided to make a set of mixed media frames...

 This frame holds an original collage...

and this frame highlights an original photo from my trip to Italy.

I am also excited to use the circles that I cut out to create the frames in a future project. 

Supply List

Spellbinders Paper Art Supplies:

GC-001 Spellbinders Grand Caibur® Machine

MT1-005 Spellbinders Media Mixage Texture Plates Grate Works Three

S4-384 Exquisite Spellbinders Nestabilities ®

S4-116 Standard Circles Small Spellbinders Nestabilities ®

S5-048 Sprightly Sprockets Spellbinders Shapeabilities ®

Preferred Promotional Partners:

Other: cardstock, book board, copper sheeting, patina solution, black gesso, acrylic paint, decorative paper, original photograph, dry transfer, PVA adhesive glue, scissors.

GIVEAWAY

You are of course more than welcome to leave a comment to this post but in order to be eligible for the giveaway from my blog, you must click the link below and follow the directions there before January 9, 3am EST...

For Giveaway Entry, click HERE.

For official giveaway rules, click HERE.

I am just one of many artists participating in this sneak peek. To see more amazing creations and for another chance to win, make sure to check out the work of Susan Lenart Kazmer who is also posting her sneak peek today.

Questions? ContestQuestions@Spellbinders.us  No entries will be accepted at this email address.