It looks like you can so do much with them but as eveeyone and you said, they are messy. There were a few small patchy areas, but I was so happy with my initial stamped impression, I used it as, is since I was planning to cover that area up anyway. The design team have some great cards to inspire you, and there are some videos explaining the techniques on the blog site, so I hope you can play along. How To Make A Christmas Card Using Gilding Flakes. Pairing up the same Cuddles and Hugs Stamp with Plaid Background, another Concord & 9th stamp. The only difference is that it creates a sticky surface for the gilding flakes to stick to. First, I stamped the plaid (using Distress Ink in SpunSugar) onto a piece of Bristol Smooth that I’d cut down to 4” x 5.25”. I love that I can work with a product that has a beautiful shine but won’t scare off a man! Product List 149698 $0.00 148362 $42.25 100730 $9.75 146983 […] I have been a bit too heavy handed with mine. I didn't realize you had used gilding flakes till I popped in to see how you made this fabulous tag. There are a few ways to apply these, double sided tape, tacky when dry gel medium or embossing powder or flake glue, which is tacky when dry. Add a little shine to your cards, scrapbook pages, tags, journals and more. Your card is really beautiful and quite dramatic. Graphic and shimmery, Cathy ... the shiny sentiment is fabulous with the stylish panel! So, I got resourceful and used a ruler and a gold pen to create the gold lines. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. to cut the hugs out, creating a see-through panel. Option: you can use the Whizzy Erazer 4008463 to easily remove excess gilding flakes from around the outer edges of your image. Once again, I used the Distress Sprayer to distress the image. This is where I didn’t do a very good job of getting the stray/excess Stamp N Bond powder off of my card before I added the foil. Here in this weeks video we've decided to show you how to make a Christmas card using gilding flakes - this is a great crafty option for making beautiful Christmas cards to send this year. Hugs, Anita :). Nice prompt service! My order has arrived and I just want to thank you for your brilliant packaging. You picked the perfect stencil, Cathy! I let the water set for a bit longer this time (about 8-10 seconds) and blotted up the droplets with a paper towel. Super simple – and honestly I think it was just as quick and easy to do since I used my craft mat to line up my ruler. You sound as though you've had great fun with the gilding flakes, Elizabeth. With a Wonky Die (but you can use any die – or just use your trimmer!) Use the wedge to ink the edges of your card with brown ink. The hearts were a bit of a last minute add, and I know I said a manly-man card, but these hearts aren’t too bad, are they? For my second card, I decided to go in the complete opposite direction colour-wise. Jul 8, 2014 - Sue Wilson shows you how to use Gilding Flakes with your stamps. Learn more about gilding flakes and the techniques to use them. 10% from all orders this month donated to charity. Glitter or gilding application Stamp an image with Versamark ink, sprinkle with heat and stick powder, heat just till it melts, then sprinkle your glitter on top. When using with the glue you apply the glue to your project and wait for the glue to dry. On a piece of Neenah Cardstock, I used Ranger Mini Ink Blenders with Distress Oxide Inks to blend Worn Lipstick with a bit of Candied Apple around the outside. Whew… You made it! This card is simply stunning Loll, I absolutely love how you used the gilding flakes with your stamp. Then, I used my favorite Micro Tip Scissors to cut around the graphic, leaving a small border around the edge. You can still get this beautiful embossing folder FREE with a qualifying order until March 31st. The texture is super cool and my husband was really impressed! Thanks for joining us at Addicted to CAS and apologies for the late comment.sue n. Gorgeous stenciling, Cathy with your Gilded Flakes. Be sure to put you stencil straight into a tray of water afterwards so the glue doesn't dry on it! Leave your heat gun on. Thanks for a great challenge! I hope you're not getting sick of my gilding flake cards. Love this design with the shiny hello! I used this really cool medium called Stamp N Bond. How To Make A Christmas Card Using Gilding Flakes. I work with a piece of parchment paper underneath me to try to contain some of the mess it creates. (Supplies listed below). The gilding flakes add so much texture and dimension. Hi everyone, thank you for stopping by. The Card Concept #146 {Winter Warmth}- There's Still Time. If I ever feel the need to sneeze, I step away from the gilding flakes. If you look closely, you can see there are teeny-tiny specs of gold foil around the hugs sentiment. Just love being able to get my Catherine Pooler Inks and has such a speedy delivery even to the Highlands of Scotland on my favourite online craft shops and a definite go to when I see something being released that I just have to have. Get tips and ideas for gilding flakes. Required fields are marked *, Hi Jeni, Thanks for your quick response and fantastic customer service, one of the best to be honest smile emoticon I will keep an eye on your site and the fuse ‘nibs’, I have just received my order and wanted to say a big thank you I love Catherine Pooler and you have the best selection of products I can find in the UK , The little paper tree has a great range of products. Aug 26, 2015 - Explore Kate Kirkwood's board "Gilding flakes cards" on Pinterest. Next, I ran my powder tool over the top third (or so) of the panel to remove oils from my paper, then used my stamping tool to stamp that bold ‘hugs’ in Versamark. © 2021 The Little Paper Tree | Website Design Ireland by Martec. I loaded up the back of that with 3M Foam Tape and adhered to my panel. Thanks so much for encouraging us to try this technique...I had fun! to cut the hugs out, creating a see-through panel. Messy to work with, but your resulting card is beautiful. I hope this inspires you to try this product out. Thank you Cathy for the fun and wonderful challenge this month. I think the idea is it helps it to stick to the stamp. Papercraft demonstration by Stephanie Weightman using gilding flakes from her new range for Hobbycraft. A tub of Judikins Sticky Stuff embossing powder, and some metal leaf. Price ex VAT: £3.80 200 ml. But I still felt like it needed something more, so I used an embossing pen to go around the edge of my banner and then foiled that also. I simply laid down Scor Tape in varying sizes where I wanted the stripes to go, put the desired colour foil down over it and burnished it into the sticky same as before. You can use it in the traditional way or use it with a layering technique with adhesives. Jun 2, 2017 - Two products I've had forever, and never actually tried out. Price ex VAT: £3.80 200 ml. Quick Tip: Sometimes Crystal Drops can dry a bit translucent. . Gilding Flakes can be used together with Creative Expressions Adhesive Sheets or Cosmic Shimmer Flake & Glitter glue to create metal effect backgrounds and highlights. If you can make a surface tacky then you can apply gilding flakes. Laura, here, on the blog today sharing two very different cards I made using the bold and beautiful Cuddles and Hugs Stamp by Concord & 9th, along with a few different techniques for working with the stunning Nuvo Gilding Flakes. Awesome card! That’s what I hate about glitter, how messy it is and you waste so much of it because of the mess. Every time I use Gilding Flakes I love the results and today I am totally excited about trying out more color combinations. Fabulous customer service. xo, Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Iced Spruce, Worn Lipstick, Candied Apple, Nuvo Gilding Flakes in Radiant Gold, Silver Bullion, and Sunkissed Copper, Nuvo Crystal Drops in Silver Lining and Gloss White, Little Things from Lucy’s Cards Twinkle Lights Sequins, Your email address will not be published. It is helpful to know that it also loses its stick quickly (regardless if its heated perfectly or not) so make sure you have all your foil out and ready to go. I will have to watch the video to see if I should get this and what to do about the mess. This is lovely Cathy! Happy crafting and see Y’all next time! I adore this stamp as it can be used in so many different colour and stripe combinations, it can work for almost any occasion! I added it on top of the hugs die cut using foam tape. Thanks Jeni all three parcels arrived. Thank you for the inspiration. I can see by the second photo the gilding flakes are really clear. This stuff gets really sticky, and it’s what allows the foil to stick to the stamped image. This medium is quite quick to get to temperature and can overheat quickly – which causes it to lose its stick and you may find you have to stamp the image a second time. Many of the suppliers provide a specialist, slow-drying (very, very, very slow drying) glue to use with their gilding flakes such as the IndigoBlu FlitterGlu and the Cosmic Shimmer Flake and Glitter Glue. I glued the entire black panel to an A2 card base I made from Neenah Solar White. Below is a quick video. Simple as that! I used my gold flakes that had been neglected for several years! I like how it accentuated the rest of the sentiment. Quick tip: I find when using stamps that cover lots of surface area, it helps to use pigment inks. I made an A2 card base from Bristol Smooth and used my ink blender and Distress Sprayer to get a nice coverage of Iced Spruce around the edge of the card front. Heat it up with a gun until the glue melts, then pop on the foil while it’s still warm. :) Another reminder that there's only a few days left before the CAS Mix Up April Challenge - StencilingCAS Mix Up April Challenge - Stenciling It wouldn’t have even crossed my mind to use the black card – but let me tell you, I think it really gave it a masculine, almost regal look to the card. See more ideas about Cards, Cards handmade, Card making. Burnish with a bone folder and poof! Use the wedge to ink the edges of your card with brown ink. Foiled cards! Just to say Thank you for your prompt delivery of my order and for all the help you gave I hope to do business with you again. It looks so cas but stunning results Susan. Instructions: Card front: Place a blank card with the folds on your left. In that post, I briefly touched on a fun technique where you add the flakes after you've coloured an image. Since this was decidedly a feminine style, I added a few Twinkle Lights Sequins from Little Things by Lucy to finish off the design. Here in this weeks video we've decided to show you how to make a Christmas card using gilding flakes - this is a great crafty option for making beautiful Christmas cards to send this year. Using a stamping tool and stamped the Plaid Background stamp onto a piece of Neenah Solar White. See more ideas about flakes, card making techniques, stamping techniques. Use the die-cut card paper patterns to cut a front panel and step panels from black cardstock. A little while back I did a review on the Nuvo Gilding Flakes and showed how you can gild an image and then colour it afterwards with Copic markers. I also like to do this so I can play around with where I want to place my drops so I don’t have “droppers remorse”! Thank you for the inspiration. This looks fab ...... great stencil design and I love those gilding flakes.Thank you for another great challenge, I'd forgotten how much fun it was using gilding flakes xx. I used my gold flakes that had been neglected for several years! 30-ene-2020 - Explora el tablero "Gilding Flakes" de Nuria Pinos, que 179 personas siguen en Pinterest. Today I have that card for you. See more ideas about inspirational cards, cards handmade, gold leaf. For last week's product review, I discussed the Nuvo Gilding Flakes by Tonic Studios. Your crafty space is always so neat and tidy, I think I need you to come and organise me!! Video Tips & Techniques. Then you can use your craft knife to remove it and you can glue to your card as you would any other sequin or embellishment! Your email address will not be published. Complete your order by 2pm Thursday to be posted the following Friday. More fun with gilding flakes. The intended recipient is into bikes and things with engines, so a card covered in cute lovesick critters with a witty pun was going to cut it with this guy. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 . You’ll also want to refrain from sneezing, coughing or laughing. Now, for the bonus card! Your flakes are so pretty in their myriad of colors and your stencil creates a fun design - love the shiny black die cut Hello! Then I used the DIstress Spray Bottle to bring out that beautiful oxidation and blotted up the water after just a few seconds. Video below. Such a fun challenge. When the glue was tacky I placed on some of the Pentart metal flakes, these seemed like larger pieces than other flakes that I've used. Ecstasy Crafts carries 16 colours of Cosmic Shimmer gilding Flakes in 200 ml pots. Thanks for sharing your card with us at Addicted to CAS. I added the hearts to the card using Tombow and cut the black card down to be a banner to fit my heart. Dismiss, Background & Full Sized – Stand Alone Die, Slimline – Stand Alone & Coordinating Die. These can move with the slightest bit of air, so just keep that in mind and be aware! May 23, 2017 - Stenciling with Gilding Flakes, a post from the blog Stamping with Loll on Bloglovin’ I have a few tips and tricks that I like to use to keep control of the mess. Thanks to you I must try again. Gilding flakes add a lot of excitement to all your paper projects, They are easy to use and a very satisfying technique. First, you’ll need to stamp your image with a good embossing ink- Versamark is one of my favorites- and then sprinkle on the Heat And Stick Power on immediately. See more ideas about Flakes, Card making techniques, Card tutorials. I had promised a card using this technique but then I got sick and my daughter got sick and my other daughter got sick and frankly it was a whole sickly mess. Use with Cosmic Shimmer Flake & Glitter Glue or with the Be Creative double sided tape. Ver más ideas sobre making ideas, thing 1, tarjetas. To create the stripes, I used the easiest technique ever. I applied flitter glue with a piece of wet & dry sponge through my stencil. I used a nesting heart die to cut two sizes of hearts from a silver, slightly sparkly vellum and red cardstock. Glitter glue/doube sided tape/spray adhesive/sticky embossing powder/sticky sheet; soft brush; Foam piece to apply the glue . See more ideas about Inka gold, Viva decor, Card making techniques. Also, I want to thank you for playing along with us at Addicted to cas1, Beautiful stenciled panel with your gilding flakes, Cathy. I trimmed that down using my Tim Holtz Guillotine to 4” x 5.25”. I wanted to create another banner, so I blended my trusty ‘ol Oxides again and heat embossed the rest of the sentiment in black. I hope you found a bit of inspiration from my projects. The gilding flakes make an elegant card, Cathy. But because of this request, my end-product was nothing like I imagined it would be when I bought the gilding flakes and that amazing Concord & 9th Hugs and Cuddles Stamp from The Little Paper Tree. Gorgeous with the stencil design you've used Cathy! Join our VIP mailing list to receive the latest news, offers and updates from our team. It works similar to embossing powder in that it will stick to a wet, stamped surface – and that it will melt when you hit it with your heat tool, but there is a big difference. For those who are new to Gilding Flakes there is a new Starter Kit available so that you can try it out to see if you like it with out investing a lot of money. I used a bit of gold metallic watercolour paint and flicked a few splatters over the whole card after I applied the stripes. I glued all the areas that were covered by the white heat embossing and glued to my heart. Video below. Oct 6, 2015 - Explore Hunkydory Crafts's board "Gold Leaf and Gilding", followed by 6970 people on Pinterest. You use it just like any other embossing powder. Quick Tip: Another tip for stamping with large surface area stamps is to use Versamark on the stamp before you add the dye ink colour of your choice. I'll bet the card is super shimmery. Option: you can use the Whizzy Erazer 4008463 to easily remove excess gilding flakes from around the outer edges of your image. Your card looks fabulous and so unique x. Hugs..Nancy, Hi everyone, I'm the host for this months. I used Tombow to glue my plaid panel to the card base, then added a few Nuvo Crystal Drops to finish it off. You have created such a lovely effect with your gilding flakes, lovely colours and great contrast with the black shiny hello sentiment xx, This was a great challenge for us this month Cathy! I hope you're having a great day. Wow! There is a coordinating die for this set that will cut out the word for me, but since its vellum, I just did a quick fussy-cut around the outside of the letters. Jul 5, 2020 - Learn how to use gilding flakes. Must remember the shoe box - a really good idea to stop the darn flakes from getting everywhere! Instructions: Card front: Place a blank card with the folds on your left. xx, Your stencil works splendidly with the flitter glue and pretty flakes Cathy and the heat embossed sentiment in black really stands out. Such a fun challenge. I cut an A2 panel from Bazzill Black Cardstock. Aug 14, 2020 - Explore Luanna French's board "Gilding Flakes" on Pinterest. Dec 28, 2016 - Boutique de scrapbooking en ligne du Québec, Herazz offre du matériel de scrapbooking à bons prix, présente des idées et trucs pour projets scrapbooking Lovely result from the white enamel. 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