Materials:
- Plastic sandwich bag
- Cardstock cut to fit snugly inside the bag
- White glue
- Metallic embossing powder
- Heat tool
- Scissors
Place the cardstock inside the plastic bag.
Drizzle white glue randomly over the bag. Remember the thicker the glue, the longer it will take to dry.
Sprinkle embossing powder over the wet glue and shake off the excess. Allow the glue to dry. My sample took about 1 hour.
Using a heat tool in a well ventilated area, start to heat the embossed glue by moving the tool rapidly over the surface of the bag. The bag will begin to shrink and tear and the embossing powder will start to turn shiny. When all the embossed areas are shiny, stop heating.
Cut open one side of the bag and remove the cardstock (the cardstock helps keep the piece relatively square)
Now cut out the entire piece separating the embossed front from the back of the bag. The piece can now be cut up into smaller pieces and used as background or collage elements by attaching it to a card using glue dots or double sided tape.
Here's a card I made using the Deconstructed Metallic Webbing. I used my paper cutter to cut a large piece for the background and a small piece to frame the main image. I hope you give this a try. It’s fun!
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Michael Strong is a born doodler. He filled the margins of most of his school work with drawings of all description and usually caught the wrath of his teachers for not paying attention in class. A career in art was inevitable. Eventually, his hobby of rubber stamping turned into little rubber stamp company. Working from his home, Michael’s little company has grown and flourished. His work has been published in national magazines and he is the author of two craft books Don’t Throw That Away! and Paper Greenhouse. Michael was lucky enough to make many appearances on The Carol Duvall Show highlighting his love of turning ordinary household ephemera into works of art. He now appears on TV Weekly’s The Scrapbook Lounge, a web based venue for paper crafting and scrapbooking. Most of Michael’s time now is devoted to traveling around the country and on the high seas teaching rubber stamping to his beloved fellow stampers. His little doodles have become his passion which he happily shares with everyone. http://www.strongstamps.com.
