Stampbord Tile

Yee haa! Did it at last! Only had the Stampbord kit for half a year, sat looking at it and through the wee small hours, decided to have a go. This is the result:

Ingredients:

1 inch square Stampbord
Colorbox Petalpoint Pigment pads: Canary, Orange, Scarlet
Versamark
Clear UTEE
Moonglow Pigment Powder: Jade Pearl
Stazon: Jet Black
Graphicus ( http://www.graphicus.co.uk/ ) ‘WIGL’ Stamp on EZ-mount

Method: Daubed the Canary yellow over most of the Stampord from the centre outwards, smudged the edges with Orange then edged with Scarlet. Waited a couple of minutes for it to dry, then applied one coat of Versamark and dipped the square into tub of clear UTEE. Heated until melted, then lobbed it into the UTEE tub again, reheated and repeated once more. Before the final heating, prepared stamp with Stazon, leaving the inkpad resting on the stamp while using a cocktail stick to gently sprinkle a tiny amount of the pigment powder onto the granules of UTEE. Then did the final heating until it looked like glass, stamped image steadily into the molten UTEE and left it there for about 30 seconds before removing the stamp ... and voila! Am quite chuffed with my first attempt at using Stampbord – inspired by Glenda at Graphicus. Now, what else can I try – perhaps a bigger bit and just inks and scrape bits away with the special tools. Methinks there’s no stopping me now .

Happy Crafting :)