Gilding Flakes-Tips and tricks

Mega flakes are beautiful quality gilding flake. Use with FlitterGlu to stamp and gild . Manufactured in a traditional way this kind of flake is a time old process where no dyes are used. All the flakes are made by hand.The effects from these Mega Flakes is truly amazing. 

The term gilding covers a number of decorative techniques for applying fine gold leaf or powder to solid surfaces such as wood, stone, or metal to give a thin coating of gold or any other metal.

Gilding Flakes  can  add a touch of luxury to your creations ... and its super duper easy to do it.The flakescome in many colours and mixes to achieve any kind of look from Gold to Copper ... and everything in between.

And there tons of different ways to use them. today we will be looking at only the basics of gilding.

Packaging & storage

The gilding flakes come in small tightly compressed featherlight plastic containers and there doesn't seem to be much in there ... until you open the lid and see the goodness.

Its suggested that we must keep a larger container ready to empty the flakes into,  because its very difficult to get them back into the small container.

Things you will essentially need

• Gilding flakes of your choice
• scrubber -use this to burnish the flakes into the adhesive you're using and remove the fines (excess flakes). 
• Glitter glue/doube sided tape/spray adhesive/sticky embossing powder/sticky sheet
• soft brush
• Foam piece  to apply the glue . 

 Some important tips:

•  The flakes are very light and static do not work near a window and also keep your Fan and AC off. 
•  If the flakes are left at room temperature they will swell to give you much more that you had. 
• Do not cough ,sneeze or sigh when working with the flakes ....or u will land up with flakes flying everywhere;)
• When you will apply the glue on the stamps wash them immediately as you don't want to spoil the costly stamps.
• Place you project on a  scratch paper, to catch the fines and this makes it easy to funnel the flakes back to the jar
• Pour a lot of  flakes over the sticky surface tap them with your fingertips ,make sure there is no stickiness left. Be generous to use the flakes 

Swatches of Gilding flakes

When we buy the flakes they they come in many different colour mixtures and they all add that little touch of oomph and luxury to any card/project  that we make.

The swatches for the ones i have are :

How to use  the  Gilding Flakes

I wanna share some of the methods and surfaces these flakes works perfectly. i also wanna warn you that id u don't like getting messy this is not what you should try. ....it is indeed a messy product and even if u try keeping it in a box u will still find it all over your workspace and clothes. i love getting  messy and i totally love the gilding flakes:)

There are a lot of different ways and surfaces to use them and today will try some.

• Paper

For this card i used Royal peacock to gild the butterfly and the sentiment. 

This card took me less tan 10 mins and its a very quick and beautiful way to create gorgeous cards with these flakes.

• Canvas
• Wood
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  Glass
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 Enjoy and happy crafting! 

hugs
arjita

No line watercolouring -daffodils

Hi guys ,

I am excited to share this easy and beautiful card I made using the DAFFODIL stamp set by Jane's doodle.

The stamp is a beautiful collection of three flowers and some amazing sentiments. 

I wanted to do some no line watercolouring using distress inks and lots of water. 

I stamped the images with DI squeezed lemonade and created a cluster on the right hand side of a Fabriano 210gsm watercolour paper. I used the lightest yellow so that I can hide these lines with my other bright DI colours.

For colouring the flowers and leaves I used some more distress inks and got this pretty card.

I have a video tutorial and u can watch me doing all the steps. Here is the link.

Lots of love

Arjita 

Feather card - with inka golds

Hi friends,

I felt ecstatic after recieving so many beautiful comments and messages on my last post and video in which I featured the viva decor Inka golds. The last experience with the product was amazing so I decided to use it one more time and try few more tips n tricks.

I personally love creating cards because they are quick and give me 100% happiness but I want to mention all the steps can be very easily used to create layouts,tags and altered art.

 So let's begin today's project and the things u will need are :

Inka gold -gold

Inka gold - lava red

Inka gold - apricot

Distress ink -cracked pistachio 

Sizzix feathers die

Mini ink blending tool

Tonic trimmer

Craft mat

ATG (glue)

Tombow glue

Vellum

Versa mark

Super fine detailed white EP

Pearls /sequence 

So guys !!grab all the supplies and let's start it together :)

Step1: die cut and emboss the feather from a white card stock and add gold on the tips fading downwards .

Step 2:die cut the arrows and paint them with red ,gold and apricot inka golds

Step 3: ink the card panel with cracked pistachio by using the mini foam blending tool. Apply two coats to get a more solid and even coverage .

😊TIP: always use the craft mat when you work with paints and inks. It is heat proof stain poof and super easy to clean.

Step 4: cut the coloured panel into four stripes of different thicknesses. Now start adding little strokes of gold using a small piece of foam. This will give it a beautiful golden distressed look.

Step 5: i embossed a sentiment on some vellum card stock using super fine white embossing powder. 

😊TIP:It is always a good idea to use a powder tool to remove any static /oil/ or debris which might attract the EP. This makes the EP stuck only to the versa mark:)

Finally we all all set to assemble the card together.try different arrangements and then stick them the way you liked the most. I added few flat back pearls and gold seqence to jaa up the project.

Here is the video link which shows you each and every step to make this beautiful card. 

http://youtu.be/tabZggqClQc

I hope u liked my post for today.

Feel blessed when I read all the amazing comments you guys leave for me. 

Stay happy...

And enjoy the rains !

Love

Arjita 

Inka Gold -tips and tricks

Hi friends,

I want to share a great news with all of u and it was only possible because of the appreciation I got from each one of u.

I feel happy to inform you that I have started my own YouTube channel Arjita Sepaha Singh. I have also uploaded couple of videos. I thank Crafters’ corner to instill confidence in me that I am now able to show my creative side to the world. I want to tell that Crafters’ Corner is my integral part and I am proud to be its design team member. I hope u will leave some love and blessings there also.

So coming back to today's post , i got these in my DT kit for june and I used few of the products today.

I decided to use only one inka gold in silver and work it with different techniques. I have uploaded a video which explains each and step in details.

I have made a card and a gift tag with the patterns I created . Check out the photos   To understand them better.

Here is the video link 

I hope u enjoyed the post. I will be talking about lots of other ways to use these amazing inka gold colours in future .

Take care 

Love 

Arjita 

Basics of Stamping

Hi friends,

I always wanted to make few posts dedicated to beginners who are just starting their journey in world of crafting and stamping .

It feels great to reach this level of crafting  and now I can attempt to share what I have learnt till now . There are new products and new techniques coming up everyday and all of us should be aware & always ready to learn more and more.

I was introduced to stamps by a friend and I cud hardly understand how to go about it. Today collecting stamps and experimenting with them is my biggest passion. 

I am glad to present few videos to you all where I talk about the basics of stamps.

I hope that this will be useful for you.

Feel free to contact me in case of any queries.

Hugs 

Arjita 

Disclaimer : This post is my version and information about the topic. There might be other categories of stamps in the market.

Altenew Persian Motifs

Hi friends,

I fell in love with the Altenew stamps at first sight😍. The stamps are so different and versatile . We can achieve various looks and styles with just one stamp. For today's post I have picked one of the most popular stamp sets called the "Persian motifs" and it's coordinating die set . Having the die set makes cutting the shapes hassle free but I must mention that the images can be easily fussy cut too.

The techniques are very popular and are created by few of my favorite card makers. I have attempted to take inspiration for them and here is my version ...
I have created mini video tutorials for each of the techniques I have used , I have also uploaded them on the crafterscornerscreen youtube channel . 

Hope u like the post for today and give these cool techniques a try. 

This is the Persian motifs stamp set and the coordinating die 

Card #1  White on Kraft 

I stamped and Heat embossed the flowers and leaves at the top left corner of the Kraft card stock. I used the super fine detail white embossing power to emboss my images and sentiment.

Coloured the flowers and leaves by using water soluble pencil colours and few distress makers.

Close up

List of supplies Card #1

Altenew stamp-Persian motifs 

Altenew die- Persian motifs

Versa mark watermark ink

White super fine embossing powder

Heat it tool

Pencil colours 

Abandoned coral marker

Peeled paint marker 

Water brush 

Card #2 Alcohol markers

I created a background paper by randomly stamping the flowers on a light brown paper. Stamped the two flowers with memento tuxedo ink which is used when we wish to use copic markers .

I used two shades of green copics and stampin' blendability to colour all the images .

I then used the die set to cut the images and sticked them over a tag with some foam tape.

Close up 

List of supplies Card #2

Altenew stamp-Persian motifs 

Altenew die- Persian motifs

Memento tuxedo black

Stampin up blendibility 

Stampin up tag punch

Stampin up ink pad

Copic markers 

Foam tape 

Card #3 Water colouring

This is the most exotic of the cards and I love love love water colouring specially the no line look. All u need  to do is stamp the images with a light archival ink and then put in all your efforts to achieve the best watercolour results. I used the new distress ink mermaid lagoon and black soot to make this gorgeous card.

Close up 

List of supplies Card #2

Altenew stamp-Persian motifs 

Wink of Stella 

Penny black die -hello

Distress ink-mermaid lagoon

Distress ink-peacock feathers

Distress ink-black soot

Achival ink-coffee

Water brush 

Card #4 Delicate Vellum

I wanted a bright background for these delicate vellum flowers to pop. I sprayed few colours on a water coloured paper and blended it with water. Once the background was dry I flicked few water droplets to get the bleached/ bokeh effect. Then I sticked the flowers with some ranger Matt medium. Embossed a sentiment and the card was ready.

Close up

List of supplies Card #4

Altenew stamp-Persian motifs 

Altenew die- Persian motifs

White super fine embossing powder
Versamark watermark stamp pad

Vellum 

Heat it tool

Ranger multi Matt medium

Distress sprays 

Card# 5 Gold glass painting

For the final card I embossed the flowers in vellum with gold embossing powder and coloured with the same shades of alcohol markers from the reverse side of the stamped image. This gives the card a glass painted look and it's so gorgeous in reality. I also die cut the word "hello" and embossed it with the same gold powder.

That's it for today !!

List of supplies Card #5

Altenew stamp-Persian motifs 

Stampin' blendability 

Gold embossing powder

Powder tool 

Heat it tool

Penny black die -hello 

Ranger multi Matt medium

Looking forward for ur comments and suggestions.

Take care 

Love

Arjita 

Coral vintage layout

Hi friends ,

I made a scrapbook layout for a friend and she loved it...I will be sharing few pictures of the layout which has a vintage feminine touch because of the pearls and butterflies.

Hope u like it ..

C ya soon

Hugs

Arjita