FAF April Techniques

The FAF group had decided the technique for April was to do stuff with metals, foils, and fabric. With April almost over, I still haven’t done anything new with this.

So instead, I will show a few things I have done in the past.

First up is a piece of colored metal shim that I embossed using a copyright free image. I didn’t have a particular project in mind when I did this, but I realize now that I probably should have left a little more metal around the design in order to incorporate it into a future piece.

After I did this I realized that I embossed the design from the wrong side, as I liked the design better from the back.

This one is a piece of copper metal shim embossed with a design from the Stef Francis kit “Indian Sunflower” which I purchased a few years ago, started on and then set it aside. I do intend to finish this piece someday.

The copper is painted over with two different colors of glass paint. Actually looking at it again, I wish I had used several colors instead of just the two.

The next two pieces have appeared on here before. This first one is a piece I did last October using small pieces of the colored metal.

I texturized the metal and I cut back the shine by painting over it.

This last piece is one of the pieces I did for my Mixed Media Sampler Wall hanging.

Sorry for the poor picture. This piece really looks so much better in real. This is a piece of copper shim that I embossed, heated with an igniter and then painted with the glass paint. I then stitched it to the background.

I remembered I had these beads also.

I cut strips and ran them through a paper crimper and then rolled them up.