A Small Gift of Gratitude

Hello, Charlotte here with you today to share a quick and easy gift of gratitude for a special friend using Piccolo Card Decor and More Chipboard Charms and Piccolo Enamel Powder. 

G&P Products

• Piccolo Embossing Powder Adhesive
• Piccol0 Bright Blue Sky Enamel Powder
• Piccolo Gilded Rose Metallic Enamel Powder
• Piccolo Card Decor and More Birds, Butterflies and Flourishes
• Piccolo Card Decor and More #10 set

Other Products

• La Blanche Stamp
• ColorBox Graphics 45 Decades Bon Voyage Blue Stamp
• Lindy Starburst Spray Tibetan Poppy Teal
• Top Boss Watermark Embossing Ink
• Recollections Paper Blooms
• PaperStudios Card Stock

Directions

• Apply a coat of the Piccolo Embossing Powder Adhesive to the front of the Card Decor and More frame. Immediately after applying the adhesive, sprinkle Piccolo Bright Blue Sky Enamel Powder over the entire surface of the chipboard. If you are using a tidy tray, gently tap the corner of the charm on the tray to remove all the excess embossing powder. A folded piece of paper works just a well.

• Cut a piece of coordinating card stock to the size of the frame. Stamp a background design with a stamp on the piece of cut paper. Now, adhere the stamped background to the the back of the frame. Distress the edges of the frame with dark blue ink distressing ink.

• Gently remove the Piccolo #10 Card Decor and More Flourishes using tweezers, needle or toothpick.  After you have removed two small and one large flourish, coat each flourish using Gilded Rose Metallic Powder. Tap off excess metallic powder use tweezers to keep the pieces in place and melt the powder with a heat gun.   Repeat this process on all three Flourish Chipboard pieces. When all pieces have completely cooled, glue the flourishes to chipboard frame. 

• Adhere paper blooms to the front of the frame.

• Add adhesive words to the front of the design. 

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Entreaty Passage Box

Even as a child, I was a collector.  For years, I have held onto items like rocks, feathers, old keys, anything that holds a strong memory or reminds me of a personal goal. I was not sure what to do with all of the sentimental items that I have held onto for years.            

I decided to make a box which would hold all of those memories and goal requests. The project began with photo box book I found at a local craft store on cleareance.  Today, I am sharing how this box came together using Piccolo Enamel embossing Powders.

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GlobeCraft Memories Products

Piccolo Brownstone Enamel Powder

Piccolo Fine Black Enamel Powder

Piccolo Victorian Brass Metallic Powder

Glastique

Piccolo Enamle Adhesive

Piccolo Heart Charm-Card Decor and More

Other Products

Live Inspired Stamp-Close to My Heart

Top Boss Watermark Embossing Ink Stamp

Inkadinkado Feather Stamp

Prima Black Coal Ink Stamp

Prima Rusty Bucket Ink Stamp

ColorBox Molding Mat-Gameboard

Prima Paper Stack

Here is the video to share how I created this box.

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Don't Blink

Don't Blink..... because time passes by so quickly.  I  wish I could press the rewind button so I could travel back in time to watch the lives of my ancestors.  This month, I created an easy project that rekindles the past and let's us treasure the days gone by with a mini hanger photo display.

Hi, Charlotte here sharing a wooden mini hanger that I turned into a vintage photo display using Piccolo Mixed Media and Metallic Colors Powder.

Supplies

GlobeCraftMemories Products

Piccolo Brownstone Mixed Media Embossing Powder

Piccolo Victorian Bronze Metallic Embossing Powder

Piccolo Embossing Powder Adhesive

Other Products

Stampabilities Antique Key Stamp

ColorBox Leather Mix'd Media Inx

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Salvage Stickers Crowded Attic

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Advantus Cropper Hopper Philosophy Tags

Mod Podge

Blue Moon Butterfly Charm

7-Gypies Clips

ColorBox Wicked Black Archival Dye Ink Pad

Prima Avon Rose Collection Paper Flowers

Recollection Paper Flowers

Directions

• Find a a mini wooden hanger.  A mini hanger can be purchased at a craft store.
• Apply a coat of the Piccolo Embossing Powder Adhesive to the front and back of the hanger.
• Immediately after applying the adhesive, sprinkle Piccolo Brownstone Mixed Media Embossing Powder over the entire surface of the hanger. If you are using a tidy tray, gently tap the corner of the box on the tray to remove all the excess embossing powder. A folded piece of paper works just a well. 

• Using a heat gun, hold the heat gun approximately six inches from the hanger sweeping backward and forward until the embossing powder starts melting. Do not over heat the image with the heat gun, because the embossing powder will burn. 
• As soon as the embossed powder is cool, randomly apply the Piccolo Adhesive on the hanger.  Sprinkle the hanger with Piccolo Victorian Bronze Metallic Powder and heat emboss the powder.
• Make paper cutout images to place on the surface of the hanger.  For this project, I used torn pages from a vintage book, vintage stickers and vintage paper images.

• Apply a small amount of glue or decoupage medium, such as Mod Podge, to the area of the prepared surface where you want to place the images.  Smooth out the glue with a small paintbrush.  Apply a small amount of the same glue to the back of the image, and smooth with a small paintbrush.  Place the cutout image on top of the freshly glued area.  Smooth out bubbles and wrinkles on the image using your thumb, being careful not to rip the image.  Apply the rest of the cutout images in the same manner.  The cutouts can be overlapped to suit your taste.  Apply three or four coats of decoupage medium to the finished surface after it has completely dried.  Allow the surface to dry between coats.  Apply a final coat of acrylic sealant after the glue has completely dried.

• Ink the edges of the hangers with dye ink.  Inking the edges of the hanger will give the hanger a vintage look. 

• Screw in three eyelet screws under the base edge of the hanger.
• Stamp vintage images directly on the hanger's surface using black dye ink.
• Using thin wire, thread several coordinating glass bead through the wire. Wrap the wire around the hanger.

• Wrap the curved hook of the hanger with coordinating ribbon.  Adhere the two ends of the ribbon with a dab of glue.

• Embellish the surface of the hanger with stamps, an assortment of paper flowers, metal tags, mini glass bottles and charms.
• Mat a three 3x5" photos on coordinating double sided paper.

• Hang a metal clip through each of the eyelet screws and clip one photo to each clip.

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Finished Result

By Charlotte Jenkins, AKA Suepup

http://suepup.blogspot.com/

Piccolo Card Decor by Charlotte Jenkins

Designer Charlotte Jenkins recently created some Moroccan inspired projects using our Piccolo Car DecorSets and our Enamel Powders:

These cards features our NEW Piccolo Card Decor Set #9:

Charlotte created all 4 projects using elements from this one Card Decor Set:

Designer's Note: "I love the enamel powders.  I love the texture of the enamel powder. After the powder is heated the finish takes pigment ink and dye ink beautifully. I love the Flash Heating ability".

No matter the theme or color scheme, Piccolo Card Decor can be customized with our enamel powders or your choice of paints, embossing powder, ink, spray ink, and more!

Hammered Metal Without the Weight

For those of you who love mixed media, our Piccolo Card Decor sets provide a wonderful mini "canvas" to create on.  Designer Charlotte Jenkins created a 4 project set featuring elements from our Piccolo Card Decor Set #4:

 This set along with the entire Piccolo Card Decor series is available for pre-order on our website now. Place a pre-order for our Enamel Powders or the Card Décor and receive free shipping on your order of $19 or more when you use the discount code FREESHIP during checkout. Expires March 31 (within the US only).

 The larger Card Decor elements look like hammered metal when coated with our mixed media enamel powders, giving them a unique, textural, grungy finish like on the cards above that Charlotte created.

Supplies:

• Piccolo Card Decor Set #4 by Globecraft Memories
• Enamel Powders by Globecraft Memories

The possibilities are endless!! Don't forget to place your pre-order by March 31, 2012 to take advantage of our free shipping code.