Crafting with Metal – October Club Demonstration

One of my good friends and a member of my stamping club called me one day and asked if I had ever used metal when crafting.  Well….yes….some….but……not really!  She found some great crafting metal online and wanted to share what she made. 

Here are the projects Carol made – and you will be STUNNED!

Carol used some copper metal and a non Stampin'' Up embossing folder, but I just had to share these because they are SO beautiful

Here's another one

and this one could be used as an embellishment or a beautiful decoration

Aren't they fabulous?  Carol found what is called crafting aluminum metal online. 

I went to my closet and sure enough I had some too – in a multitude of colors, so we designed this card and Carol shared this technique at our club meeting! 

The star is using the "Tempting Turquoise" metal (matches perfectly) and can be used on the card front and then removed to decorate a package or as an ornament!

Here's a little tutorial so YOU can try this – so many possibilities!!

  To make the "metal" a little more sturdy (it's paper thin), you will need to glue two pieces together.  We used our Tombow Multipurpose Liquid Glue – and the flat end  to get a good covering

Place the two together and then use a rolling pin to flatten them

  

The next step was to cut out the two stars with the Star Framelits

We then ran these through the Big Shot using the Northern Flurries Embossing Folder

Simple and easy, but VERY effective

We ran the Whisper White card stock through the Northern Flurries Embossing Folder also and then sponged a little Tempting Turquoise ink over it!

Besides the metal, here are the products we used for this project