Bling it On!

With Add A Little Dazzle and Stampendous, you can bling it on your favorite projects!

                       

The team over at Add a Little Dazzle has created a special featuring the metals from this blog hop for those of you who have already realized you're going to need these products. You can find it here - Add A Little Dazzle Stampendous Hop Special. Of course you might win some, too! We're giving away three prize packages this week for comments on the blogs. A nice package of Metal Sheets, Stamps and Cutting Dies!

 

I had a lot of fun with this blog collaboration!  It's always cool to have a new product to play with.  I love to create mixed media pieces and their metal sheets combined with Stampendous Stamps and Dies are perfect for just that.  Here's my project:

Here's a close-up of some of the snowflakes showing the details of heat embossing with some great embossing powders from Stampendous!

Here's what I used to create this canvas:

Stampendous® Snowflake Die Set

Stampendous® Cling Delicate Snow Set

Stampendous® Holiday Words Perfectly Clear™ Stamps

Stampendous® Boss Gloss™

Stampendous® Stardust Sparkly Embossing Powder

Stampendous® Blue Tinsel Sparkly Embossing Powder

Stampendous® Chunky White Deep Impressions Chunky Embossing Enamel

Add A Little Dazzle Metal Sheets - Wondrous White

Add A Little Dazzle Metal Sheets - Perfect Peacock

Add A Little Dazzle Metal Sheets - Ocean Blue

Faber-Castell® Gelatos® - Acqua Dolce, Snow Cone, Cotton Candy, Blueberry

StāzOn™Midi Ink Pads - Blue Hawaii, Midnight Blue

Beacon® Adhesives Zip Dry™

Misc. 8 x10" Stretched Canvas

Here's what I did to create this canvas:

Using all three dies, cut out several snowflakes in all three colors of metal listed, set three small snowflakes aside

With the matching stamps, ink stamps with Boss Gloss™ and add embossing powders, heat emboss

Hand cut a strip of white metal to use across bottom of canvas

Add Gelatos® to canvas with darkest colors along outer edges, lighter colors in the center and blend with water and brush

Adhere white metal piece to bottom of canvas

Using Boss Gloss™, add ink across edge of metal, add embossing enamel and heat

Use Boss Gloss™ to add ink around canvas, add Stardust embossing powder and heat

Stamp words onto the three snowflakes set aside earlier

Arrange and adhere snowflakes onto canvas

We love to hop and here are today’s featured blogs with Stampendous and Add A Little Dazzle:

Stampendous

Lea Kimmel (me!)

Add a Little Dazzle

Pam Hornschu

Cathy Parlitsis

Vicki Dutcher

Kate Capper

Amy Hurley-Purdie

I hope you like my canvas and have been inspired to try these fun metal sheets!  They're so easy to use!  Be sure to stop back by tomorrow for a little Wicked Wednesday fun!  Thanks for stopping by.  Have a blessed day!

Hugs,
Lea

PS. If you get to a blog and it says something like "that post isn't here", just click on the blog header or look for a link that says Home near the top. That will take you to the blog home, and the blog hop post should be somewhere near the top. Thanks for your patience!