Hi Everyone

Welcome to my Thursday Weekly post of Creativity!

This week I have been baking with Seth Apters /Emerald Creeks Baked Texture Embossing Powders to create a Grungy tag embellished with some of my own 'rusty' findings.

I have used 5 of the 7 2018 debut release of Baked Textures - Chunky Rust, Green Patina, Dirty Sand, Ancient Amber and Vintage Beeswax. That's Crafty! have them available to order along with this years release of Baked Textures, of which there are 12 new flavours. Be sure to check them out here and here.

My substrate is a #8 That's Crafty! Greyboard tag. I primed it with Gesso and then scraped texture paste roughly and randomly over the surface. Whilst the paste was still wet I began adding the Baked Texture EP's sprinkling them over the surface one by one until the tag was fully covered. I then applied heat using a heat gun and watched the BT's transform and the magic happen!
Once I had a carpet of melted colour and texture I continued to add sprinklings of the various flavours wherever I felt they were needed, heat setting as I sprinkled- no rules just following my creative muse until I was happy.

Here's a few close ups of the rich pools and sprinklings of melted colour

aswell as the fabulous grungy texture achieved by the texture paste/BT combination.

The Focal Feature

For the base layer I created a rusty panel using sand texture paste and DecoArt Media Fluids

and for the second layer I heat embossed a piece of old 'chocolate box' packaging with Patina Oxide and Chunky Rust.

A close up shows you more of those sprinklings

To embellish I dug out a few of my rusty metal findings that I discovered when out and about last year clocking up my 'steps' . I thought they would be well suited to my grungy baked tag. 

With the 'rust' already present I just simply caught the edges with metallic wax before adhering in place along with a couple of eyelets.

I adhered a big chat sticker to an off cut of greyboard, tinted it with Distress ink and heat embossed it with Vintage Beeswax.

To finish off I threaded some jute through the tag hole and bound it with some metal wire

I hope you have enjoyed your time here with me today and that maybe my 'Baking' has offered some creative inspiration.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by.

Hope you all have a great week and hope to see you again next week .... same time, same place

Take Care

Amanda

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Hi Everyone 

Welcome to my Thursday weekly post. 

This week I have been playing with paints again along with some texture paste, some 13Arts Magic Powder and some Baked Textures embossing powders to create a 'Grungy Mixed Media tag'.

The tag itself is a #8 That's Crafty! Greyboard/Whiteboard tag. I applied some torn pieces of collage paper and some background stamping before adding colour using PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints applied with a brayer. 

Next came the textured stenciling. For this I mixed up my own coloured texture paste - 13Arts Magic Powder + Midnight Fresco Finish acrylic paint+ a small amount of That's Crafty! Texture Paste. 

13Arts Magic Powder is a new product to me so I was keen to try it out. It is an organic ingredient that will turn any medium into a nice smooth texture paste. All you have to do is mix some into your medium of choice until there are no visible white particles (the more you add the thicker the consistency) and use as you choose, either directly onto your substrate or as I did through a stencil. 

Here's what my mix looked like when mixed.

Unfortunately I failed to capture a shot directly after application but I was impressed with the result. Its available from the shop and the price is unbelievably affordable!
I heat embossed the textured stenciling, gently caught the top with white gold metallic wax and  added a little more background stamping.

The heart is a That's Crafty! MDF heart #3 triple embossed (at least) with Seth Apter's Baked Textures embossing powder. I used Deep Sea which when melted creates a liquid looking blend of blues and greens with a glossy finish.

I stamped into the final embossed layer and highlighted the stamping with White Gold metallic wax. Not especially happy with the result I reheated the stamped embossing back to a smooth finish and in doing so the metallic wax created the specks of white gold you can see within the embossing.
The heart is embellished with some cogs and eyelets and sits on top of a Tim Holtz metal ruler.

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I finished the hole of the tag with an eyelet, threaded ribbon through and added a few word stickers.... Heart

& Soul

Heat Gun 
Ribbon