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kerravonsenMore faux-embossed pendants today. And dirty fingers.
This time I was trying out this marbling technique, though again with variations.
The top one is the one I started yesterday, the bottom one is the last one I did today (put them in the same image because they were both blue-ish).
Various pendants; steel washers, embossing powder, archival ink
The top one was the ink marbling; the main difference from the tutorial was that I added clear embossing powder with each round, so I'd have a bit more, and so I'd know for sure when the embossing powder was melted (since cold melted embossing powder reflects the light like hot melted embossing powder). The first pass (which I did yesterday) was melting three layers of white embossing powder (one after the other) to get a nice thick coating.
This morning I added light green ink. Unfortunately, when I re-melted it, the green ink didn't move. I can't figure out why. Anyway, I swirled it with a toothpick instead. Then it was the dark green ink, and I didn't need a toothpick. Then the dark blue ink, and it was blowing very nicely. So I swirled it with my hot air from my heat gun, and I am pleased.
The bottom one was the fifth pendant of the day, so I had been doing a bunch of other stuff (see below) before I got to this one. I was playing around with permanent-ink pens with this one, but I stuffed it up (which is a pity, the pattern looked quite nice) so I covered the whole thing with metallic teal embossing powder, and then green, and then a dusting of white on one side, and then a dusting of blue on the other. And held the heat gun VERY close to try to marble it. It's tricky doing the marbling, because sometimes the colours don't move, and sometimes they move too much, and they often don't move where you expect. But I love the effect when it works.
Note that, apart from the white embossing powder, this one was done with a subset of my newly-acquired additional embossing powders (they arrived yesterday); metallic teal, green, and blue.
The following pendants were done in between the above ones.
Various pendants; steel washers, aluminium tags, embossing powder, archival ink
Yes, lots of brown.
The first one, I was trying some "Gelatos" ink, which was like oil pastels, but it didn't come up that well. So I thought I'd try to make a "Mars" planet, by putting my new "Cinnabar Red" embossing powder on, but that didn't look so great either. So, brown archival ink ("StazOn Spiced Chai") and that really looked nice. Just a bit of marbling with this one, a subtle effect. Doesn't really look like Mars, though.
I liked the look of the Spiced Chai over gold, so the next one I did deliberately: a layer of yellow embossing powder, a layer of gold tinsel embossing powder, then the Spiced Chai ink. Then I decided to try a stamp with embossing ink, and put copper embossing powder over that. Then I did a little touch-up with the brown ink, to make the stamp outline stand out a little better in spots where the background wasn't dark enough. Not very contrasty, but it still looks nice.
So, I was a bit puzzled about the "Cinnabar Red" embossing powder, why it didn't seem to be as red as I'd expected. So I tried it on its own on a steel washer, to see what it actually looked like. Oh dear. Not what I wanted at all. I had assumed when I bought it, that it was a darkish dullish red, but instead it was weird, a sort of mix of colours, dark red and gold and pink, and it made a kind of crackle effect. I think it was because it was part of the "Antiquities" range, but I hadn't realized that it was until I looked at the bottle, because the listing didn't mention that.
So I covered the washer with brown ink, then brown embossing powder, and I think that made it look much better.
Not sure what I'll do with the Cinnabar Red, since I really don't like it.
This time I was trying out this marbling technique, though again with variations.
The top one is the one I started yesterday, the bottom one is the last one I did today (put them in the same image because they were both blue-ish).
Various pendants; steel washers, embossing powder, archival ink
The top one was the ink marbling; the main difference from the tutorial was that I added clear embossing powder with each round, so I'd have a bit more, and so I'd know for sure when the embossing powder was melted (since cold melted embossing powder reflects the light like hot melted embossing powder). The first pass (which I did yesterday) was melting three layers of white embossing powder (one after the other) to get a nice thick coating.
This morning I added light green ink. Unfortunately, when I re-melted it, the green ink didn't move. I can't figure out why. Anyway, I swirled it with a toothpick instead. Then it was the dark green ink, and I didn't need a toothpick. Then the dark blue ink, and it was blowing very nicely. So I swirled it with my hot air from my heat gun, and I am pleased.
The bottom one was the fifth pendant of the day, so I had been doing a bunch of other stuff (see below) before I got to this one. I was playing around with permanent-ink pens with this one, but I stuffed it up (which is a pity, the pattern looked quite nice) so I covered the whole thing with metallic teal embossing powder, and then green, and then a dusting of white on one side, and then a dusting of blue on the other. And held the heat gun VERY close to try to marble it. It's tricky doing the marbling, because sometimes the colours don't move, and sometimes they move too much, and they often don't move where you expect. But I love the effect when it works.
Note that, apart from the white embossing powder, this one was done with a subset of my newly-acquired additional embossing powders (they arrived yesterday); metallic teal, green, and blue.
The following pendants were done in between the above ones.
Various pendants; steel washers, aluminium tags, embossing powder, archival ink
Yes, lots of brown.
The first one, I was trying some "Gelatos" ink, which was like oil pastels, but it didn't come up that well. So I thought I'd try to make a "Mars" planet, by putting my new "Cinnabar Red" embossing powder on, but that didn't look so great either. So, brown archival ink ("StazOn Spiced Chai") and that really looked nice. Just a bit of marbling with this one, a subtle effect. Doesn't really look like Mars, though.
I liked the look of the Spiced Chai over gold, so the next one I did deliberately: a layer of yellow embossing powder, a layer of gold tinsel embossing powder, then the Spiced Chai ink. Then I decided to try a stamp with embossing ink, and put copper embossing powder over that. Then I did a little touch-up with the brown ink, to make the stamp outline stand out a little better in spots where the background wasn't dark enough. Not very contrasty, but it still looks nice.
So, I was a bit puzzled about the "Cinnabar Red" embossing powder, why it didn't seem to be as red as I'd expected. So I tried it on its own on a steel washer, to see what it actually looked like. Oh dear. Not what I wanted at all. I had assumed when I bought it, that it was a darkish dullish red, but instead it was weird, a sort of mix of colours, dark red and gold and pink, and it made a kind of crackle effect. I think it was because it was part of the "Antiquities" range, but I hadn't realized that it was until I looked at the bottle, because the listing didn't mention that.
So I covered the washer with brown ink, then brown embossing powder, and I think that made it look much better.
Not sure what I'll do with the Cinnabar Red, since I really don't like it.
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Date: 2015-08-12 12:19 pm (UTC)I am very enamoured of the blue. The marbling effects on the top one are very pretty and the bottom one seems like a moonlit storm at sea to me.
Of course, I like the coppery designs on the middle brown one and I also like the dark border effect on the top one.
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Date: 2015-08-12 04:37 pm (UTC)...That sounds gorgeous, although I can see where it would be dismaying if you wanted just dark red.
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