UTEE Keyrings

Continuing on with my play day last Sunday later in the afternoon I got my melt pot out to make these key rings. Even though I put them on white paper, you still couldn't see them properly.

Luckily the sun was out, so I went outside and placed them all over the bush at the end of the garden, and the sun glistened through some of them.

And from a different angle.

Christmas Baubles

Alison made THIS fab card and then sent it to me for Xmas along with some wooden snowflakes so I could have a go myself. So I didn't hold back, I totally stole her idea and got straight onto playing. 

Instead of using friendly plastic, I used coloured utee. I was going for a red, but when it had melted I realised it was actually orange, but not to worry!!  I painted the wooden snowflakes silver and added gold glitter and micro beads into the utee.

Don't you just love how it oozes thought those holes!!

Thanks Alison, not only for the idea, but for the snowflakes too.

I'm also entering my cards into the Arty Inklings crimble challenge.

Stampotiques challenge this week is Christmas cards in November.

Utee Embellishments

I've been playing with clear Utee, printed images, cookie cutters and to dye for ink and made these embellishments.  The green heart isn't as dark as it looks as it's transparent when held up to the light as I used the to dye for ink.

Close up of the middle of the butterfly.

Close up of the faces encased in the Utee.

Bezels with Utee

I was watching some Utee uploads on YouTube and came across this one by the lovely Carol Fox. Using lots of different metal embellishments in the bezel I covered them in melted Utee and then used the heat tool to get rid of the air bubbles. I like this one as the spinner still spins.

For this one I cut out a piece of coloured text paper and added a silver coloured charm. I pushed the charm into the melted Utee.

I added gold coloured mini dragonfly beads and sequins to this very small bezel and filled with Utee.

This is a 1" Ranger memory frame and therefore doesn't have a back.  I placed a charm and 3 beads inside and filled with Utee.  As you can see, it's pretty transparent.

And this is it on my craft surface, as you can see, the Utee looks more yellow.

And this one is exactly the same except I used a single butterfly charm. But I need to go back and reheat this as you can see the top right corner has a bubble in it.

And again on the craft surface.

And here are all 5 together. Sorry for the glare but I used my new daylight lamp as it was nearly dark by the time I was finished.

Stamping in Utee

Over at the PanPastelUk site this week they are challenging us to make our own embellishments.  I found this Utube video on Utee and mica powders.  As she used one of my favourite stamps I decided to use it too.  For the background I spritzed a dark blue piece of card with biscotti perfect pearls mist and outlined both pieces in white fire liquid leaf.

Close up of the stamped Utee using blue shades of perfect pearls. The image was re-stamped onto the black card using gold galaxy brilliance ink.

Then I decided to try a green one been as I had leftover Utee.  For the background I used mint perfect pearls mist on black card.

And again, a close up of the stamped Utee with the green perfect pearl powders.

Beeswax Atc's

For Frances birthday project over on the PA blog she's been playing with beeswax, her new design PA mini stamps and PA postcards!!! All is revealed here!!

I decided to use the new style postcards, so just left the background plain as I figured there'd be too much going on if I added any more colours!!  As I didn't have the brand new stamps either, I used a couple from the Urban Snapshot range, arched apertures #2.  

Bees Wax Canvas

I've been joining in with a few streams lately and yesterday Jamie finished a fabulous 12 x 12 canvas and Dar was playing with bees wax, so I decided to combine the two.  I have to say that they are all a great inspiration and all the ladies are very talented.  Mine is only a small canvas 6 x 8, but I got to use my new paints and some more of my new TH stamps.  They are not new out new, but new to me.

Postcard Canvas

Carrying on the clay theme, I made a postcard, but I decided to mount it onto a deep 4 x 6 canvas.  I've entered a postcard swap on one of the yahoo groups I belong to, I'm just waiting to hear if this will be acceptable or not, due to the depth.  Unfortunately the colours on the photo haven't come out as it looks IRL.  They are much brighter and you can see the stamping.

This is a snippet of one of the side pieces.  I painted it with various shades of blues and purples.  I outlined the edges of the canvas with black paint to frame it.




******Edited***** The sun is shining this morning so I've been able to capture the colours better.

More Clay Pieces

As my clay atc's were so successful, I decided to make some 4 x 4's and added the clay pieces as the focal point.  I created the backgrounds in exactly the same way as the others.  Top left is mounted on a piece of mica.  Top right is a mould whereas the other three pieces have been stamped into, so it's raised.  On the bottom two I've added wire mesh, wire and gems.

*****Edited***** The sun is shining this morning so I've been able to get a better photo to show the real colours.

Acetate Hangers

These have all been created using the spray ink and paint backgrounds that I'd previously made.  The acetate images have been painted with Silkies. The letters are die cut in black card from the red tag sale set by cuttlebug.

This hanger is done in the same way as above apart from the letters, instead I added a clay piece which I'd already prepared.  The main image is from PBS.

The Silkies have worked really well on this image, they are so bright and vibrant.



Tags of different shapes

This weeks Lotstodo Challenge is to make a tag using a different shape to 'the norm', so I've used a nesties shape and embossed it with the circles impressabilities plate. I chalked over it all and swiped the raised parts with faded jeans distress ink. Stamped the image onto a piece of light blue card, rounded the corners and added the words faded dreams using the Dymo labeller, punched a hole and added a piece of ribbon

This is a piece of white clay which I stamped into and baked in the melt pot. I then painted it, used my crop-o-dile to put a hole in it and added ribbon