Thank You Dad

Good morning, Steph here.

There is something about a handmade gift bag and tag that lets an individual know you truly do care about them.  I know that Father's Day has just passed, but that won't stop me from using this gift bag for another occasion.  There is always a birthday!
After decorating the gift bag with assorted papers, I felt a special tag was needed, so I pulled out my Piccolo Card decor and seperated these awesome Gears.  How manly are they!

I ran the tag through my Cuttlebug with a Sizzix Embossing Folder - embossing just the top half.   I then added Adhesive around the edges of the tag and added Vintage Silver. which gave the tag a great metallic effect.  I added Vintage Silver and Mermaid Tears to the Gears which I then added to the tag.  Some Twine, wrapped around the center of the tag, finished it off nicely.

The sentiment was stamped with Clearsnap's Watermark Twinkle on some white cardstock.  Mermaid Tears was added on top and heat set - perfect!   I love that I can use these powders on sentiments.

Thanks for stopping by today.

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My Dear Mother Vintage Frame

Daniela here with a beautiful Globeframe!  This is one of the most fun projects to put together!  With the Globecraft Memories Bubble Frames, you can create a beautiful keepsake for yourself or any loved one.  This one is definitely for me.  I have great pictures of my mother growing up and love to make vintage inspired pieces to show them off.  The GlobeCraft Memories Frame does just that!  With their enamel embossing powders you can achieve the vintage look so easily! 


 




Because the frame has a few layers you can achieve a beautiful 3 dimensional feel.  You can see from this picture that I used different papers and to make each layer stand out. I used the Gold Enamel Powder on one of the frame pieces as well.
















The GlobeCraft Memories Enamel Embossing Powders are FANTASTIC!  They work beautifully and have such dimension and are so easy to use!  I used the Mermaid Tears Powder on this chipboard butterfly and I love how it turned out!

I hope you have enjoyed this project!  I loved making it!  With the variety of different frames, powders and Piccolo embellishments GlobeCraft Memories has designed, you can create beautiful keepsakes for yourself or someone you love!


Daniela 


Products Used:

• Grand Oval Globeframe
• Glastique
• Embossing Powder Adhesive 
• Piccolo Enamel Powder in Mermaid Tears
• Almanac Collection by Prima Marketing Inc.
• Flowers by Prima Marketing, Inc.
• Chipboard Butterfly by Maya Road

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Challenge #71 Patriotic or Summer

With the 4th of July approaching, this week's challenge theme is

Patriotic or Summer

Remember to use a SweetStamps image on your creation to get an extra chance at winning $20 of rubber stamps from SweetStamps. Rules are listed in the sidebar and instructions can be found at the bottom of this post.


Check out these creations from our sweet & talented design team this week:

Bonnie Brown

Calypso Bastian

Dawn Bennett

Dawn Lotharius

Jacki Randolph

Jacqueline Hill

Jenn Cochran

Joni Mastronardi

Kendra Sand

Linda Jover

Shelly Schmidt

Tamara Morton

Sandy Fredrick

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WIN FREE STAMPS! 

Join our weekly challenge

You can use any stamp on your challenge entry, but if you use a SweetStamps image, you will get two entries into the giveaway! To enter the challenge, please add the URL to your actual blog post or online gallery to the InLinkz at the end of this post. Please do not link to your main blog; we want to be able to find your post to leave you comments. Also, please link back to our blog.

Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, use a SweetStamps image to get an extra entry in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including ours).  You must link back to us in your blog post.

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Next week we start a month of Christmas challenge themes - to help celebrate our Christmas in July Sale - with our first being Resist.

Happy Stamping! Hope your day is super sweet!

:) stacey

Micro Beads or Sugar Beads Winner

Using Random.org, a winner from last week's challenge was chosen.

And the winner is....#5

 Congratulations

S`andra Gagnier VanWoerden

Please contact me for your winning prize of a $20 shopping spree for rubber stamps at SweetStamps.com.

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge, we hope you had fun and will join us again — we have a new challenge every Tuesday!

Make Art} Classic Story Teller Rectangle Globeframe

Good morning everyone, Stacy here with you today to share a fun little project that I created with the Classic Story Tellers Grand Rectangle Globeframe.  If you have not tried these products all I can say is that it is a MUST!!!  You will simply fall in love with what you can create.

Ok so first gather all your supplies.  Paper, Glastique, Piccolo enamel powder adhesive, and of course the enamel powders ( I used Temple Stone)!

I wanted to stamp the perfect saying so that I could display this in my creative studio.  The saying is "When the heart & hands all work together...it is then that you can make art".  So I cut a piece of pattern paper so the size of one of the pieces of the frame.  By doing this I knew that my saying would be centered.

So I stamped the sentiment then sprinkled alot of enamel powder (Temple Stone) over it, of course shaking off the excess and placing that back into the container.

Now this step is simple, just heat set the enamel powder.

I covered the base of the frame with the Piccolo enamel powder adhesive and sprinkled Temple Stone enamel powder all over it and heat set this as well.

This is what it looked like when I was done.

So now for the smaller pieces of the frame that go around the globe.  I wanted to simply adhere paper to these.  So I cut paper to the size of the pieces, placed the paper on them, then filed around them them until they were smooth.

Now you simply put it all together using the Glastique and then embellish.  Here is my final project.

You can also try this out or any of the fabulous products here at GlobeCraft Memories...and here is a discount code for you that the wonderful owners of GlobeCraft Memories have given you to use! 

 

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GlobeCraft Memories Supplies:

~Classic Story Teller Grand Rectangle Globeframe

~Piccolo enamel powder adhesive

~Glastique

 

Non GlobeCraft Memories Supplies:

~Carta Bella paper

~Prima embellishments

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today, hope you have a fabulous day!

Stacy

 

 

Preserving Her Memory

Good morning, Steph here with a memory globe I created featuring an awesome photo of my Grandmother and Great Grandmother circa 1940.  It has always been with my Mother and then came to me when she recently passed.  I know I had to do something fabulous with this photo.  Globecraft Memories to the rescue!

I used adhesive on all layers and added assorted Powders - Enchanted Aubergine, Victorian Bronze, Mermaid Tears, and Brown Stone on the Globecraft Memories Bubble Frame pieces.  The little bits of white showing are from the Brown Stone Powder.  If you saw this in person, you'd see that it actually looks like bits of real stone.   Once I had all the layers done, I adhered them together.

I'll let you in on a secret - I placed the globe on wrong and didn't notice it till I was done.  The globe should have gone under the various layers, but instead I placed it on top - oops!!!  Since it was already complete, I couldn't pull it apart, so I added the globe and debated what I could do.  I decided to add some rhinestones around the globe hoping they would cover my little "mistake".

I put glue around the Globecraft Memories Bubble then placed the rhinestones. To be sure they'd stay permanently in place, I added some Glastique on top of the rhinestones.   It worked beautifully and I love how this Globecraft Memoreis Bubble Frame turned out.

So, next you you do something a little "off", think outside the box - you may be truly surprised at what you can accomplish!!

Supplies:

Little Fancy Rectangle Globe

Glastique Finishing Glaze

Powders - Brown Stone, Mermaid Tears, Enchanted Aubergine, Victorian Bronze

Embossing Powder Adhesive

Card Decor Love

Hi everyone!  Ryann here with a cute, fun and simple greeting card using one of the Piccolo Card Decor sets and lots of bright enamel powders!  With just a few simple ingredients found at Globecraft Memories, you can turn your greeting cards from good to GREAT!!

Supplies Used:

• Enamel Powder Adhesive (Globecraft Memories)
• Glastique Finishing Glaze (Globecraft Memories)
• Piccolo Card Decor Set #8 (Globecraft Memories)
• Pink Elephant Enamel Powder - coming soon! (Globecraft Memories)
• Bright Blue Sky Enamel Powder - coming soon! (Globecraft Memories)
• Fine White Enamel Powder - coming soon! (Globecraft Memories)
• patterned paper
• cardstock
• scallop border punch
• black ink
• stamps
• ribbon

1.  Apply the Enamel Powder Adhesive to the Piccolo Card Decor pieces and cover with Enamel Powders.

2.  Using your heat gun, emboss the Piccolo chipboard pieces.  Set aside to until cool to touch.

3. Apply Glastique Finishing Glaze to the tops of each Piccolo chipboard piece.  Allow to dry completely.

4.  Decorate card with Piccolo Card Decor pieces and give to a loved one! 


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Thanks for stopping by!  

Siam, Thank you ma'am!

Hello, Allie here back with more Globecraft magic! At first glance, you might think these keys and butterflies are metal. Not so! With a little bit of magic using Piccolo Enamel Powder in Siam Silver, these beauties are turned into metallic looking art. I was first intimidated by these powders. I quickly learned they are very easy to use.

To start this project, I removed the keys using tweezers.  



Next, I dabbed the keys and butterflies with enamel powder adhesive.  I then sprinkled Siam Silver enamel powder on the pieces. I shook off the excess powder and embossed using my heat tool. Another option is to bake at 350-400 degrees for 60-70 seconds.  You can tell when the whole piece is coated by the color change. I repeated this process twice for both sides of each piece.



After embossing, I coat side one with Glasstique. Once that side dries, I coat the other side.
While waiting for these pieces to dry, I cut my chain, chose my findings, and placed my beads on the bracelet.


Once everything is dry, it’s time to add the jump rings and attach to the bracelet. The final fun step – wear the bracelet!!

Supplies used:

• Glasstique
• Enamel Powder adhesive
• Piccolo Card Décor & More Vintage Locks & Keys U003
• Butterflies
• Piccolo Enamel Powder Siam Silver
• Jump rings, lobster chain, 2 pairs of pliers, tweezers
• Beads and Baubles - Idealology (Designed by Tim Holtz for Advantus) 

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Now get out there, fire up your heat gun and create a little magic! Remember, these powders are easy to use.

Thank you for stopping by and sharing more magic with me.

Until next time, this is Allie, from Well Trained Paper. See you again soon!

Welcome Home Piccolo Style

Welcome to the Globecraft Memories blog,

Pinky here with a Welcome Home handmade card that has an 

extra special touch from Globecraft Memories. 

I thought I would share with you how I heat set the beautiful and

intricate Piccolo Heart Charm pieces. 

 Step 1. Coat each charm with Piccolo Enamel Powder Adhesive.

Base-BrownStone, Heart-Vintage Gold, Love- Mardi Gras

 Step 2. Carefully hold each piece with tweezers (silicone tipped tweezers shown here).

Step 3. Turn heat gun on away from chipboard let heat up for 5 seconds.

Step 4. Apply heat using heat gun for 3-10 seconds depending on desired effect. 

Step 5. For base re-apply Enamel Powder Adhesive and Brownstone Enamel 

Powder for more dimensional look. 

Step 6. Layer using strong chipboard adhesive. 

• Products used in today's post:
• Globecraft Memories Embossing Powder Adesive
• Globecraft Memories Piccolo Brownstone Enamel Powder
• Globecraft Memories Piccolo Mardi Gras Enamel Powder
• Globecraft Memories Piccolo Vintage Gold Enamel Powder
• Globecraft Memories Piccolo Heart Charms H001
• Bo Bunny Welcome Home Paper

Here is a photo after they have all been heat set. 

 You can see the different colors of Enamel Powder really make a difference

when you layer the pieces into one. I added gemstones to the top and bottom

as well for an added shine. 

 When your card is complete it is ready to give with a smile. 

A sweet handmade gesture anyone is sure to enjoy. 

I hope you found some inspiration to create today.

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Also, we decided it was high time to have a little giveaway!! We're giving away a Card Decor Set #8 and one of our Little Story Tellers Fancy Rectangle Globeframes:

To enter, just use the easy entry box below! You can enter once a day until the end of the contest so keep coming back!

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Until next time-

Pinky: Globecraft Memories Design Team