GIVEAWAY OPPORTUNITY AND DREAMWEAVER TUTORIALS THURSDAY: Going “Heavy” Metal!

Welcome  back to the Dreamweaver Stencils Tutorial Thursday! Last week Susanna demonstrated how to emboss and paper-piece with stencils. I’m Pam Hornschu, and this week I’m going to show how to emboss metal with stencil designs. This is a technique that can be as simple or as involved as you’d like to go.

Supplies:

Dreamweaver Stencils’ Electric Guitar, Happy Birthday, Silver Embossing Paste, palette knife

Mercart Metal colored aluminum (red), paper stump, Teflon tool, ball and cup tool, scratch tool, suede pad

Bazzill cardstock, Wassau crinkle paper, patterned paper, sanding block, Stone Gray StazOn ink

Step 1: Following tutorial for paste-embossing, paste the birthday stencil and set aside to dry.

Step 2: Brush gray ink over crinkled paper panel and adhere to card. Distress edge of patterned paper panel and adhere to card. Ink around edges.

Step 3: Using small pieces of tape to hold in place, layer the colored aluminum to the stencil (be sure to have the item info face away from metal).

Step  4: Place face down on base plate of embossing machine. Add embossing mat and two clear platens to protect the stencil. Run through machine to emboss.

Step 5: Place stencil back over embossed metal and sand color off  of exposed surface. For a more rough look, stop here and complete your card, or…

Step 6: Using rubbing (isopropyl) alcohol and a cotton swab, remove color from embossed areas. This will clean more thoroughly. (If sensitive, use this in a well-ventilated room.) Once again, you could stop here and complete your card, or you can go the next step…

Step 7: Place embossed piece face down on suede pad. Use paper stump and Teflon tools to manipulate the metal for a more defined image. Still not ready to stop?

Step 8: Using scratch tool, trace random swirls over the front of metal panel.

Step 9: Using ball and cup tool (Phillips head), press ball end in from back, and impress cup end over front side. To emphasize, use rubbing alcohol and swab to remove color.

Step 10: Trim edges of panel and distress with ink if desired. Assemble card.

Now you can see what I mean about going as simple or as elaborate as you want to go. Dreamweaver Stencils‘ carries a huge variety of stencils and Mercart Metals in yummy colors and the basic metals (including a gorgeous pewter) to create some fabulously simple metalwork that is sure to WOW.

Be sure to head over to the Stencil with Style site to choose the stencil that YOU would like to win, and mention it in your comment below. You have two weeks to comment for an opportunity to win. We will select ONE winner each week that we do these tutorials. Curious as to who the winner is from Lyn Bernatovich’s gorgeous butterfly post two weeks ago? Congrats to PAM (great name by the way!) who commented that she would like to win LJ916…the very beautiful butterfly that Lyn had used! PAM, be sure to email lynell@dreamweaverstencils. com with your snail mail addy!

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