Melt Art Mania!

 Hello friends!
Hope you are good!

Thank you so much for popping by today.....
I'm sooo excited to share my Melt Art Mania creation with you....
not only that...... I will also be sharing a tutorial on how you to can create your own Melt Art.....
and there's a really cool give away...... more on that later!

A few weeks ago was asked to participate in
 Rangers Melt Art Mania....I just couldn't wait to get started!
I wanted to use my Melt Art melting pot as it has
so many creative possibilities from Creating 3-D embellishments, jewellery, paper crafting in fact the list just goes on!

I wanted to create something that could have a duel purpose......
 maybe worn as an item of jewellery but could also be adapted to use as an embellishment for my art work
So for this project as well as using my Melt Art Pot,  Melt Art Texture treads I would also use one of my other favourite mediums....
Rangers Metal foil sheets.....are perfect for what I had in mind.....

These brooches are so cool and simple to make..

Here is a tutorial on how you can 

create your own Melt Art embellishments

Supplies:

Ranger Melt Art Melting pot/spatula
Ranger non-stick craft sheet
Ranger Melt Art Texture Treads
Ranger Melt Art Ultra thick embossing Enamel
Ranger metal foil sheets


Tim Holtz scissors
Ranger Vintaj Patinas
Memory frame
Memory Foil tape
Alcohol ink-pitch black
Blending tool/felt
Hot glue gun
embossing tool/paper stump
brooch pin
Cookie cutter
steel wool

Set your melt pot to the UTEE setting and add your UTEE

(I used clear and Pearl)

Choose your texture tread and carefully pour the UTEE over the top

next take a cookie cutter and carefully place into the UTEE and leave for a few minutes to set 

(use your spatula to test if the UTEE has set.......DO NOT use you fingers)

When the UTEE is cool, carefully peel the texture tread away and snap the heart out of the UTEE

(Place any left over UTEE back into your melt pot to re-use) 

Next take a sheet of Rangers  Metal foil sheet

cut a heart  out of the foil sheet slightly bigger than your UTEE heart 

Remove the backing of the foil sheet. 

Next place your UTEE heart  face-down onto the foil heart......so that the pattern is stuck to the foil 

carefully make some snips around the heart. 

Turn over the heart and using a paper stump or an embossing tool rub over and around the heart to expose the the pattern of the texture tread

Now take the snipped foil and stick down to the edges of the heart 

cut another heart in the foil and place onto the back of the heart 

this will hide the seams of the foil 

Using steel wool, gently rub over the whole pattern of the heart

Take a blending tool with felt and apply some pitch black alcohol ink 

Rub the blending tool all over the heart (front and back) 

Take a small piece of steel wool and gently rub over the areas you want to to expose

of the pattern 

I added a smaller heart to my brooch ( made in exactly the same way )

and stuck it to the heart using a hot glue gun 

To finish I added a pin to the reverse of my brooch

Your brooch is finished!

I really hope you enjoyed the tutorial 

Why not experiment and add some Idea-ology 

Try pouring the UTEE into a memory frame, when it has completely cooled add a square of metal foil sheet to the embossed UTEE frame and follow the steps as before.. 

You could also try adding colour to the metal, I used Rangers Vintaj Patinas 

apply the Patinas using your fingers over the raised areas, then gently rub with the steel wire for a more distressed look.

I love experimenting with the texture treads

they are so much fun to work with!

Now did I mention a Ranger give-away??

The lovely people at Ranger have given me a fabulous prize pack to give away

to one lucky reader!

2 texture treads,1 set of heat-it inks,8oz jar of clear UTEE and a melt Art Project craft sheet

 

How cool is that?!

All you need to do is to leave a comment on this blog post.....

A  lucky winner will be announced on June 3rd 2013

good luck!

Thanks so much for popping by The Little Shabby Shed

Have  fun creating with your Melt Art 

and be sure to pop by the Ranger Ink blog for lots of  fabulous Melt Art inspiration

cheerio for now

Kaz

x

journal pages

Hello friends

Hope you are all good

Hope you had a fabulous bank holiday....it was so good to see the sunshine!
Its been a very busy week....had a major spring clean of the shed.....
although I did  manage to squeeze in  yet another desk!!
(I  really do need to extend my little shed!)

It was art journalling class on Tuesday Evening

and I always look forward to getting inky

Here's some pages I did
(the stencil Ive used is a really cool Dina wakley stencil)

Here's some of my pages

this week we worked with magazine cuttings, old cardboard, stencils and washi tapes

Each month I try and set some homework for my ladies..........this month it was lyrics from a song

I chose "Its just a perfect day" by Lou Reed 

The lyrics are written around the silhouettes...

I've still got some more to add to these pages 

hope to get some inky time later!

If you have ever wanted to try Art journalling but don't know where to start or just want to learn more inky techniques then I will be running a day workshop on 

Sunday 23rd June at Crafty bunch Telford

(for details about classes click here)

10 til 3

£35

Using Dylusions and Ranger Products

(Just bring a journal, a packed lunch and an apron....moustaches are optional!)

Ooo  and before I go I  was so pleased to have a feature in this months craft stamper

here is a little peek

( for more info on craft stamper click here )

As always feel free to leave a comment great to know you popped by

Right I better get a wriggle on.....

got lots of to do jobs to get started and 

its a busy weekend ahead!

Have yourselves a fabulous weekend 

Kaz x

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