Art Glitter and Canvas

Today I want to share with you a fun project that I made for a friend of mine. 

I started with a white 8"x10" canvas that I got at a local craft store. I wanted to make a fun inspirational sign, so I looked for a simple, but fun, quote. Once I decided on the quote, I cut out the lettering on my Cricut Expression 2 using vinyl. I took the background of the vinyl letting and placed it on the canvas. Be sure to place this exactly where you want it. Once it is on, be sure to press firmly and make sure all of the edges are on well. This will determine if any paint will seek through the edges. The better sealed the more crisp the letters will look. 

Using Designer Dries Clear adhesive, I filled in the letters that I wanted glittered. I then poured on #601 Royal Rose Vintage Glass Glitter. 

After it dried, I painted the remaining letters with green acrylic paint. Once everything thing was dry, then I peeled back the vinyl to reveal what the sign.

Below is a close up of the glittered letters.

 You could make this sign with practically any saying, and any size! Make it your own, and use colors your love! I just recommend that there is glitter on it! I hope you enjoyed my project today, be sure to stop by my blog, http://oneheartscrapper.blogspot.com for more glitter fun!

Glittered Cupcake Halloween Rosette

We're quickly getting closer to my favorite time of year... Fall! And Halloween is especially my favorite! Is it wrong to start decorating now?
I took this blank rosette: And with some paint and glitter, I turned it into this: After it sat out for a few weeks... the silver in the antique silver glitter tarnished a bit, which is awesome, and now it looks like this: I love how the silver glitter has *real* silver in it and tarnishes... giving it a wonderful effect! To create this piece, I first sketched out my cupcake using a white chalk pencil. I LOVE using chalk pencils because if you don't like your first sketch, just rub it away with a damp clean cloth! I then painted on the bottom of the cupcake in brown acrylic paint. The top of the cupcake was created using glue and glitter. I then outlined the circle and tails of the rosette with glue and added the vintage glass silver glitter and added the same vintage silver glitter to the inside of the ruffles. Here is the glitter I used:

• #611 Antique Silver Vintage Fine Glass Glitter (My absolute favorite!)
• #79 Ultrafine Opaque Glitter - Black
• #56 Ultrafine Opaque Glitter - Pumpkin Orange
• And I used Designer Dries Clear adhesive, too!

Happy almost-Fall! :)

"Bling Sun" Fabric Art by Emily M. Miller

Fabric, Bling from Want 2 Scrap and Art Glitter…WAY too much fun!

Play Things
Art Glitter Ultrafine Opaque: #27 Navy
Art Glitter Ultrafine Pearlescent: #183 Blue Angel, #175 Retro Red, #174 Pink Cadillac, #179 Tang, #178 Duck Tail #186 Purple Polka Dot, #193 Martha’s Yard
Art Glitter Ultrafine Transparent: #93 Lemone’, #86 Angel Dust
Art Glitter Designer Dries Clear Adhesive (DDC) with Metal Tip attached
Art Glitter Sticky Tape
Art Glitter Sticky Sticks
Want 2 Scrap Bling: Swirls Finesse-LeCreme Pearls, Baby Bling Rhinestones-Brown
Laurel Burch Celestial Fabric and coordinating background fabric
Fabric scissors
E6000
Matte Board
Sharpie
Ribbon
Spray Adhesive
Walnut Ink Spray
Memories Mist: Iced Coffee
Maya Road: Bronze Thick Photo Edges

Choose your fabric selections and decide how large you want your piece to be. Then cut your matte board and fabric accordingly. Spray one side of the matte board with a spray adhesive and glue background fabric down with an inch of fabric overlapping matte board, flip over. As you can see I’ve started by gluing opposite sides down with DDC adhesive.

Glue other two sides down. At an angle, cut overlapping fabric corners off as shown.
Spray glue onto backside of focal fabric and center it onto your background. You’ll notice in the next shot that my edges are not perfect, but that’s okay, I’ll fix that later.

Start with your larger bling from Want 2 Scrap. These swirls finesse from Want 2 Scrap were absolutely PERFECT with my Laurel Burch fabric. And they are so easy to use. Just lay the transparent sheet of bling on top of your project to see where you want the bling to go, cut it to size, peal and place down!

I wanted to add some smaller bling that comes in individual pieces (baby bling!). To avoid going crazy I employed a sticky stick to do my detail work. Just push the end onto gem and slide off.

Push lightly in place and use a pin tip or fingernail to release gem. So much easier than going crazy trying to use your fingers! I have many other things that make me crazy so it’s nice to lesson that load.

Now I’m going to fix my edges. Unroll a stretch of Sticky Tape over your fabric edge and place sticky side down paying attention to getting your line straight. Sometimes my tape overlaps the fabric, and in a few spots there is a gap, that I will fix too!

Lay tape on opposite sides; remove red protective covering and lay tape down on other two sides. Then trim the ends to make nice perfect corners. Remove protective cover. Now you can begin to glitter! Spoon navy glitter over open tape and rub glitter into tape with finger. Tap off excess and do all sides.

Now to fix those gaps, just add a line of glue and cover with same glitter color. If you are not great at making a straight line…like all of us, dashes are a lot easier. Cover with glitter then go back and connect your dashes with more glue and glitter.

This is my Mess O Glitter! I use basket coffee filters to catch my glitter. And you see my selection of glitter is mostly Pearlescent, it works PERFECTLY with this fabric. As a matter of fact it works great with all of Laurel Burch’s bright patterns. A must have!

I glued and glittered in dot patterns that resemble the fabric and bling. I also made dots on the yellow background fabric. Fun, easy, beautiful.

You may be wondering why I'm using Designer Dries Clear and NOT Fabric Dries Clear. Easy, because if you aren't going to wash it, you don't need to use our Fabric glue.

I made another matte board slightly larger (black velvet) and ran a sharpie marker along the edges. Of course I slipped a few times and left marks on the white back side. So I sprayed it with walnut ink and a reddish spray ink. I’m quite pleased, it almost looks like wood!

Before gluing back matte board to front with E6000 I laid a ribbon loop in between. Let dry overnight weighted down. ONE LAST THING…matte boards are notorious for their corners getting banged up. Hammer down some metal corners and you’re done!

I hope you’ve enjoyed this fabric bling journey. I took tons of photos and could have made a slide show! I know, I’m a bit excessive sometimes, I can’t help it. Who knows, I may make that slide show some day. Check out my blog for more Art Glitter art and then some: blogbyemm.com

An Apple A Day

Well, I hope you Labor Day was fantastic.  Today is the first day of school here in Michigan, so I decided to celebrate with an easy, elegant, glittering apple. 
Here are the simple instructions:
MATERIALS:
One Plastic Apple
Spray Adhesive
Assorted Gemstones.  I used a cluster that I bought at Michael's and a few additional red ones
Art Institute Designer Dries Clear Glue
Ultrafine Metal Tip for Glue
Art Glitter Microfine 516 Gold Tone
Art Glitter Microfine 508 Silver Moon
Art Glitter Ultrafine Opaque 62 Copper Canyon
Art Glitter Ultrafine Opaque 155 Red Velvet

DIRECTIONS:
1)  Spray apple with adhesive
2)  Cover with Gold Tone glitter

3)  Adhere gems around the apple.  Try for a pattern, but be aware that this will NOT be perfect, as the apple is not completely symmetrical.  Any gems that do not adhere can be attached with Designer Dries Clear.

 

4) Using Designer Dries Clear with the fine tip, surround your gems with Copper Canyon. 

5) Use the fine tip and more Copper Canyon, create a pattern by attaching the sections in the same manner (your choice), all the way around the apple. Let dry.

6)  Surround the Copper Canyon sections with Silver Moon.  Let dry.

7)  Go around the outside edges of the Silver Moon with Red Velvet.  Also, add any additional "gems" needed with drops of glue covered in Red Velvet.  Let dry.



8) Brush off any excess glitter.  You are done!

Of course, the idea is to bring an apple for the teacher, but I am thinking that this one might be too pretty to part with.  (Of course, I AM the teacher!)

Thanks for checking out my post today.  If you want to see what I did with the OTHER apple (shown in red on the picture above), stop by my blog at www.rememberinglifesmoments.blogspot.com. I will give you a hint, I started with the same thing, used different glitter, and have something really spooky to show for it!  Hope to see you there!

Blog Candy and Challenge

The contest was to find the number of changes and leave a comment.   Well, we did not have as many comments as I would have liked but I am so glad some played.  For those that did play, I counted EVERY change made and there are 13!  Sarah was the only one that got the number of changes correct.  I did count each one as a change, not by square.  The glitter under the jars and under the candy corn were counted as one each!   I am going to do the random.org NOW.. and the number is 8!
If you are the 8th person to leave a comment I will be contacting you!  Thanks for playing and Happy September! 

Fashion Forward with KC

Back to school means shopping for school clothes.  And with a growing 8 year old, it also means pitching most of last year's jeans that are all to short.  I had wanted to work on some up cycled projects, and the denim I was about to throw out seemed like the perfect material for a fun glittering fiber project.

For this project I used:
Materials:  Denim from old pair of kids jeans, a cardboard core from a roll of packing tape, Blue acrylic paint, Acrylic sealer (brush on type), Acrylic sealer (Spray on type)  Art Glitter Fabric Dries Clear Adhesive (FDCA), Art Glitter Ultrafine glitter:  #117 Goldilocks, #65 Old Gold, #48 Emerald, #249 Woodberry, Embossing powder, Art Glitter Fantasy Fiber - English Ivy.

Tools and supplies:  Iron, Teflon sheet or parchment paper, Sizzix Big Shot, Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers Die, assorted bottle lids and caps, paint brushes

Cut a section about 1" - 1 1/2" out of the tape core and gently bend it into the size and shape needed to get on and off your wrist and wear comfortably.    

Paint the inside and edges of the core with blue acrylic paint and seal by brushing a layer or two of acrylic sealer.

Used Sizzix and Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers Die to cut flowers from excess denim.

Paint a little Art Glitter Fabric Dries Clear Adhesive on the tips of the flower petals.

Sprinkle a mix of Art Glitter Ultrafine glitters on the adhesive, one color at a time.  

Repeat this on each of the flowers.

Spray the front of the flowers with clear acrylic sealer and gently press the flowers into various caps to give them a little shape, and set them aside to let them dry.

Cut a piece of denim that is long enough to go around the outside of the core + 1/2" and about 1/2" wider than the core.  You want to cut with the grain of the fabric (not on the bias), so this piece was cut by cutting straight across the back of one leg.

Run it through the washer and dryer with a load of clothes to fray the edges

Sprinkle the fabric with embossing powder.  Any embossing powder should work, but will show through the fibers slightly, so you'll want to pick a complimentary color.  This one has gold sparkles that show through for a little extra sparkle.

Position clumps of Art Glitter Fantasy Fiber over the fabric.

Cover with a Teflon sheet or parchment paper and iron according to directions.  I actually held the iron too long in one spot and got a little more copper color there - see the iron imprint to the left?  Since I liked the variation of color I wasn't too worried about that.  But note that if your colors are changing to a lot of copper tones, you are probably holding the iron on too long, or have it too hot.

Trim off the extra fibers that are extending past the edge of the denim.

Use FDCA to glue the layers of the flower together and glue the flower to the bracelet piece.  I decided not to use the daisy shaped piece in my flower, so I'll save that for another project.  Glue a button or other bling in the center of the flower.

Use FDCA to adhere the denim bracelet to the tape core

Thanks for visiting!  Please visit my blog for more glittering fun!