Meet the Modern Gilding Powders!

I'm so excited to share this brand new product with you!  We now have bright beautiful detail embossing powders that can take on the look of hammered metal or brightly burnished precious metals. They are so much fun to play with!  You can't imagine how many times I've said "Oh, Wow!" when I've used them.  These powders are co-branded with Emerald Creek Craft Supplies.

There is nothing that equals traditional gilding, but we don't all have the time or inclination to spend the time learning it.  That's where these come in!  They're fast and beautiful!

We have six gorgeous colours and there is so much you can do with them! I've named them with a nod to calligraphic tradition:

*Did you know this was the name of one of the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Now are you wondering how Dragon Berry fits into calligraphic tradition?  Rumour has it there was dragon blood in ancient inks..... okay.  I thought that was a bit harsh sounding and the colour is more berry coloured (it's gorgeous!) so it became Dragon Berry!

Let me show you a few things that you can do with these Gilding Powders.
Use them with rubber stamps.

Gilded with Kells Gold with May Peace be Your Gift

Always Believe with Dragon Berry

Use them on diecuts.

Moments diecut with Kells Gold

Here is an example of raised gilding - Modern Gilding Style!  Beautifully smooth raised gilding.  Sure beats stirring slaked plaster for a week, huffing and puffing and painstaking burnishing!  (Although I have had great joy doing all that.)

Faith diecut with Burnished Silver

Use the Modern Gilding Powders to make backgrounds.
You can have the hammered metal look or smooth surfaced.  You can spread multiple powders to created a variegated surface as I did by using Kells Gold and Burnished Silver.

Copper Scroll hammered metal background (Flourished Star is here!)

Burnished Silver smooth background (Cherish is here!)

Kells Gold and Burnished Silver mixed background (Shine is here!)

Use them with your hand lettering - and again you can get  the smooth or hammered look!

Kells Gold and hand lettering

Burnished Silver and hand lettering with the hammered metal look

Gothic Black with hand lettering - glossy black black BLACK!

Join us here on Quietfire Creations to learn more great ways to use the Modern Gilding Powders.  Also visit us on Facebook where we are live most Thursday afternoons with all sorts of projects!  Watch for hand lettering and gilding videos, too.
Enjoy the Modern Gilding Powders!

This month's challenge over at Elizabeth Craft Designs was a background challenge.

So this was fun!  All you have to do is die cut your words from a removable mask, lay them on your paper, sponge colour over them, spritz with water and repeat!  The variety is endless!  My theme is winter, but I could easily stamp Merry Christmas on the inside and voila!  a Christmas card!  Or what about a birthday card, or anniversary.... or .... or.....or...!

For today's challenge, Elizabeth Craft Designs will be giving away Gift Card to use on their website to 3 lucky winners.  To enter, simply leave a comment on the Elizabeth Craft Designs Challenge Blog Post!  Good luck!

Here is how to make this card.  It's such a fun technique!

Supplies:



 

Instructions:

1. Form a 7 x 5" tent-fold card base from blue (Nassau) cardstock. Cut a piece of Specialty Stamping Paper about 7 x 5".  You will trim this later to fit the card front.
   
   
2. Die cut Brrrrrr and some snowflakes from masking paper (see supply list).  Designer Tip: I used both the Avery and Inkadinkado products. The Avery was more sticky, but both did the job well!  Remove the release paper from the back of the words and place them on your Specialty Stamping Paper.  Sponge Salty Ocean Distress Oxide ink over the whole surface including the masked words.  Spritz the surface with water and allow to dry.  You will see the small "snowflake" speckles appear in the inked surface. Larger drops will give bigger "snowflakes". (This almost looks like a crackle!  It appears crackled from multiple layers of spritzing.)
   
   
3. Remove the masked images and move them to a new place on the paper. Yes, they'll still be sticky enough to work!  Now sponge Broken China over and around parts of the masked words.  Spritz again and allow to dry.  Repeat with Faded Jeans Distress Oxide Ink. Remove the masking words.  Trim to 6.5 x 4.5".  Cut a mat from white cardstock approximately 1/8" and adhere together.  Mount this panel on the card base with foam adhesive.
   
   
4. Die cut Let it Snow twice, once from white cardstock and once from dark blue (Royal). Die cut one snowflake from white. Layer them with the dark words slightly offset to create a slight dropshadow effect.  Adhere the words and snowflake to the paper as shown.

Have fun with this technique. The effect can be very subtle or very stark. Try them both.  Mix up your Distress Ink colours. And there are lots of words you can use as a background!!
Thanks for visiting.  Now head over the the Elizabeth Craft Designs blog to enter to win! 
Good luck, Suzanne