Gilding Flakes with Group of Seven Cardmakers

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This month the Group of Seven Cardmakers are focusing on gilding flakes on acetate.

Gilding flakes are not my favorite.  But this time I got better results than I usually do.  I think

it may be because I used my fingers to rub off the excess flakes instead of the scrubby thing.

It does have a nice shine to it.

I inked the stamp with some Flitter Glue and stamped it on a piece of acetate.

It's important to wash the glue off immediately.  I hope I got it all off.  I used a

toothbrush to get into the crannies.

The glue stays tacky so there isn't a big rush to get the gilding flakes on it.

My pot has some quite large flakes in it so I was able to cover the glue quickly.

When it was covered with flakes, I used my fingers to rub off the excess and a 

Swifter to get the excess off the acetate.

Both sides look nice and in the video, it shows putting it over an aperture.

Instead I framed it and used foam tape to elevate it over a background piece

from my stash that was a Brusho mop up.  I should have done the aperture 

because the foam tape has made it too thick to mail.

A word of warning when using gilding flakes.  Don't have a fan going in the room!

And have a vacuum handy!  Oh, and Brenda says not to cough.  I imagine sneezing

could cause all kinds of flakey fall out too.

There's a video on the Group of Seven post and my teamies have some 

much better examples to inspire you.  There's a linky there too, if you want

to try gilding flakes on acetate and show us what you do.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Soft Wings (PB)

Ink:   

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Acetate, Mixed Media

Other:  FlitterGlu (IndigoBlu), Gold Gilding Flakes ($ store), Stitched Rectangle & A2 Thin Frames dies (SSS), Burlap EF (HB)

Enjoy!

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Alcohol Ink with Gilding Flakes for GO7

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This month the Group of Seven Cardmakers had a messy play with alcohol inks and

Gilding Flakes.

I did four cards from two pieces of gilded alcohol ink.

First up....

For the blue piece, I used lots of alcohol with the ink on Yupo paper and my 

Tim Holtz Ink Blower to move the colors in fun patterns. I let it dry completely and

tried to add gilding flakes to the sticky areas.  

I couldn't get it to stick, so I used the skinny tip

of my Bearly Arts glue and added thin beads of glue to some areas then covered the glue with the

gilding flakes and let it sit for a while before rubbing the excess flakes off. 

I die cut some 

feathers from it.  You can't see it in the photo, but there are dry embossed 

feathers in the background.

 With the rest of the piece, I CASEd myself...  

I hadn't used this fun die in a long time and it works so well with

alcohol inked backgrounds.

Then I did a piece of green and made two more cards.

My first Christmas card of the New Year...

Again I used lots of alcohol with the ink on Yupo paper and my Tim Holtz Ink Blower to move

the color around.  Before the piece was completely dry, I covered it with gilding flakes

and pressed into the ink.  I left it to dry a bit then I used a scrubby to rub off the excess.

There was still some sticky places after it dried and I couldn't get the flakes to stick

so I sprinkled baby powder over the top and rubbed off with a dry baby wipe.

This worked great to get the sticky off.

For my final card, I used the rest of the green piece...

and added an Irish Blessing and hot foiled butterfly to it.

The butterfly was hot foiled on acetate and put on top of a die cut

of plain white.  The antenna is from gold cardstock.

Do go over to the Group of Seven website and check out the instructive videos and 

the beautiful examples the rest of the GO7 gals have done.  They have good tips and tricks

for this technique on their blogs.  If you try it yourself, you can link up your results

over there too.  The biggest tip I have is to wait until AFTER you do this to vacuum!

Challenges:

Group of Seven Cardmakers - Alcohol Ink with Gilding Flakes

Double D Challenge - Sparkle and/or Shine

Try it on Tuesday - Add Some Text

   

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Encouraging Words (Stampendous)

Ink:   VersaMark, Aqua, Monsoon AI (Ranger)

Paper:   Yupo, Black, Gold Foil

Other:  Feathers on the Side EF (Darice), Feather Dies (?), Gold Gilding Flakes ($ Tree), Gold EP, Circle Punches (1/8" & 1/4")

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Sentiment Strips (Alt)

Ink:  Midnight Muse, Aqua, Monsoon AI (Ranger)

Paper:   Yupo, Neenah Solar White

Other:   Floral Stem Collage (PS), Gold Gilding Flakes ($ Tree)

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  Holiday Sayings (Inky Antice)

Ink:   Gumball Green, Citrus, Limeade, Botanical AI (Ranger)

Paper:   Yupo, Neenah Solar White, Gold Foil

Other: Gold Gilding Flakes ($ Tree), Pretty Pines Thinlits (ret SU), Quickie Glue Pen, Glitter,

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Irish Blessing (Verses)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Yupo, Neenah Solar White, Acetate

Other: Gold Gilding Flakes ($ Tree), Mini Slimline Double Stitch Die (KS), Small Butterflies Hot Foil Plate & Die, (PFS), Gold Foil

Enjoy!

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More Dry Embossed Gilding

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I have some more gilding and embossing from our 

Group of Seven Cardmakers last technique.

During our Zoom session, Julia pointed out that her pieces felt sticky.

Mine did too. So I had the brilliant idea to put embossing powder over it and heat

emboss.  It got rid of the sticky, but also covered up a lot of the variegation in the

gilding flakes.  It was usable though and made a lovely Christmas card.

Here's a sample of what the piece looked like before gold embossing powder.

This time I used clear embossing powder.  It left the variegation in color and got rid

of the stickiness.

Have you tried this technique yet?

Directions and link up at

Group Of Seven Cardmakers

Challenges:

ABC Christmas - E for elves, F for food, or G for gold

Rudolph Days - ATG Christmas

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Holiday Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Encore Gold, Jet Black Stazon (for technique)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Printed Vellum (ret SU), Gold Foil

Other:  Gilding Flakes (Eton Mess, Chariot of Fire/Indigo Blu), Dazzling Star Die (Gemini), Greetings Die (PB), Gold EP

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Easy Expressions Original (Ton)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black, Jet Black Stazon (for technique)

Paper:   Neenah Natural, Naturals Ivory (ret SU)

Other:  Elodee Bird Background Die (MB), Stitched Rectangle Die (SSS), Tall Pines 3D EF (SSS)

Enjoy!

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Dry Embossed Gilding Flakes for Group of Seven Cardmakers

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This month's Zoom with the Group of Seven Cardmakers was messy but

gave fabulous results.

There are instructions and a video link at the GOSC site along with some of the

cards the group has done using this technique.

The first step is to add some sticky sheet to a piece of cardstock and press

gilding flakes into all the sticky and burnish it.  I used a scrubby pad that came with

the Indigo Blu gilding set I bought several  years ago.

After dry embossing it, we swiped with black permanent ink.

The other gals got much better results with the ink.  I'm thinking my inkpads

may need some refreshing.

I cut my piece to get two cards. Here is the second...

You can put two gilded pieces in the embossing folder back to back so you

get an embossed and a debossed side.  I got a picture of both before I put them on cards.

This shows the debossed side better. 

Or is it the embossed side?

I hope you'll check out the website and the other Group of Seven Cardmakers cards.

It's always interesting to hear what tips and tricks the others have found

in the process of doing this technique.

If you try this technique we'd love for you to link it at the site so we will be sure to

see what you did and hear how it worked for you.

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Sentiment Strips (Alt)

Ink:   Black Stazon, Encore Gold

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Gold Foil, Black, Vellum

Other:  Indigo Blu Gilding Flakes (Chariot of Fire, Eton Mess), Sticky Sheet (Sizzix), Vintage Wallpaper EF (ret SU), Drifting Side Butterfly (MB), Wildflower Die (TH), Gold EP

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Gold Foil, Black, Vellum

Other:  Indigo Blu Gilding Flakes (Chariot of Fire, Eton Mess), Sticky Sheet (Sizzix), Vintage Wallpaper EF (ret SU), Palm Fancy Die (HA)

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Gilded Holly

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

How are you?  I hope you and yours are staying healthy and
not worrying too much.  I'm trying to focus on the uplifting stories
I see and hear and trying not to worry about the rest.

I've needed the fan on in the studio for most of the month, but had a day 

cool enough to turn it off and get out the Gilding Flakes.

If you've ever used them with a fan on, you know what I mean! ;-)

Cathy is asking for us to use gilding flakes at CAS Stencil.

I used a Tim Holtz holly stencil and a piece of cut-n-dry foam pad to spread

Flitter Glu through the stencil.  I removed the stencil and covered

the piece with these gold flakes pressing down with my fingers.

When it seemed the flakes were covering good, I used the scrubby thing

to brush off the excess.  The leaves still felt a little sticky so I took out

some little scraps of foil and used a bone folder to rub it over the stickiness.

It gave it a bit of a golden grunge look.

I love the way my friend Ros tucks a bit of same color die cuts

on her cards and I copied that idea with a pine branch.  A gold embossed

sentiment on a strip of vellum finishes it off.

.  This shows the shine, but the background is washed out.

Oh, well.  Hopefully you can get the idea.

It really looks much better IRL.

Challenges:

CAS Stencil: Gilding Flakes

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Think Big Christmas (PTI)

Ink:   WOW Emb. Pad

Paper:  Neenah Natural, Vellum, Gold Foil (SU) 

Other:  Holly Bough Stencil (TH), Flitter Flu, Chariot of Fire Mega Flakes (Indigo Blu), Gold EP, Holiday Greens Die (TH)