Hello, my dear crafty readers, my bees ! That ran to congratulate all of you a Happy New Year !!
Wish you good luck, joy, smiles around, of course, creative inspiration, and boundless energy to implement all our plans !!
My new project for Crafters corner - New Year`s decor. I made a small wire snowy tree with Dress my craft Frosted sugar powder and decorated it.
With lots of sugar :-)
This is a relatively easy project, especially for the people that they are into using wire for jewelry making. Personally, I have little experience on these things. I learned it from my school days.
For Completing this tree, its take 2 hr
Main technique is twisting the wires, twist the whole wire like this. And make branches and roots. Do not twist until the end. End portion add Frosted sugar powder with Gel medium ( Matte finish or Glossy finish )
here is the video tutorial
Here i made Winter theme. If you want a just tree with single stone for root part is a good choice. You can also put your tree in a bowl with smaller stones or inside a jar with lots of frosted sugar powder. You can even make a little garden or forest. By using different materials and colors, you can create more elegant, spooky, colorful or bonsai-like trees ( cover whole with tissue and modeling texture paste). The possibilities are endless.
I am Anita here and how are my dear crafter friends doing !!!! All geared up for New Year !!!! OMG!!!! It's almost here !!! Can you believe this !!! It seems yesterday that we just started the year on a new note and a new team and here we are standing to wave it goodbye.
How time flies !!!! I still remember my post first post with Crafters Corner blog almost two years back. I was fortunate enough to write the first blog post for Crafters Corner. And what a journey has been. The baby has grown from toddler to a well groomed lady and here she is on our first in house brand ----DRESS MY CRAFT.
Welcome all !!!!! as I present to you our first and most popular product the Floral Paper Collection - ORIENTAL AND EXOTICA--- Premium Cardstocks with world class quality and every crafters dream.
Both the powders are of extremely super quality and add extra beauty to the projects.
So in my post today, I will reveal all the secrets of these products and bring to your a deeper insight into the above.
Here is a comparative table about the two papers that will be clearly explain you the pros and cons of both papers.
PROPERTIES
EXOTICA
ORIENTAL
PAPER THICKNESS 285
GSM 285 GSM
TEXTURE SMOOTH SMOOTH
PAPER STRENGTH LESS STIFF MORE STIFF
WATER
ABSORBENT HIGH LOWER
STAMPING GOOD WITH ARCHIVAL SAME
HEAT
EMBOSSING GOOD GOOD
DISTRESSING GIVES A SMOOTH BLEND SAME
DIE
CUTTING GOOD GOOD
WATER
COLOURING GOOD GOOD
FLOWER
MAKING OPEN BLOOMS CLOSELY COMPACT BLOOMS
So that will give you clear comparison between both papers. But that is not all. I have visual pictures to show you about all the qualities of these papers.
You will need two huge cups of coffee or tea to sit back and relax because this is one heavy post loaded with pictures and of course a video ---because seeing is believing !!!!!
Heat embossing is good
Good resist embossing
good distressing paper
good for stamping especially if stamped with waterpproof like Archival Jet Black
water based inks tends to bleed a little
Awesome Die cutting
good for water colouring
gives nice clear embossing
So thats it !!!! I hope it is quite clear by now as to how wonderful these card stocks are. I would call them the ultimate card stock as these have multiple qualities.
Now on to the another product that is the talk of the crafting community because of its awesome quality.
Sparkling Dust and Frosted Sugar Powder
Sparkling dust is a fine shimmery powder, almost weightless nd gives a smooth glittery look to the surface where it is applied. It sticks well with most adhesives and is bright white in colour. However this powder DOES NOT HEAT EMBOSS. So avoid using it for the same.
Frosted Sugar Powder as the name suggests is like fine sugar but a little granular and has very little shimmer or sparkle. It has a translucent frosted look and can be used for mixed media, on flowers, etc. This too cannot be used for Heat Embossing.
Here are the two flowers that I made using the Exotica and Oriental paper. After reading my blog post till now, it will become very clear to you which flower is made from which paper. Can you guess ??
Let me tell you--the flower on the top is made from Exotica paper as it is more open while the flower at the bottom is from Oriental paper as the bloom is more closed and compact.
Here are the flowers with the new powders
Oriental Bloom with Sparkling Dust
Exotica bloom with Frosted Sugar Powder
Here is the video to show you in real way how wonderful these papers are.
So thats comes to an end to this super long post. But I hope I was able to clear all your doubts. If you still have any queries , do leave your comments.
Hope you had a good time with me!!!
