Saturday Step X Step - Faux Embossed Metal

Marjie Kemper here, happy to be hosting this week's Step X Step.  This technique comes straight from Tim Holtz's book, The Compendium of Curiosities Vol 2.  If you don't have that book, you really do need it... I promise.  It has tons of great tips and techniques, and I refer to it often.

I used the Faux Embossed Metal technique on this project, which is the November page for my 2012 Kathryn Wheel calendar:

I intended to use this technique just for the accent piece that shows the month, but it is quite bold and didn't look good against any of my attempts. So I decided to do the entire page with this technique.

I started by cutting a piece of black card stock from the Sizzix Ornamental die, then embossed it with the Collage Texture Fade. I used a shim when cutting, like I demonstrated on this project last month.

I love the rich texture the Texture Fade provides:

I pulled some of my favorite Perfect Pearls Mists and spritzed liberally before heat setting them:

The shine is really rich in person.  I cut two pieces of black card stock in half lengthwise and used the same technique on them with the Retro Circles Texture Fade (you must move the folder once and emboss it a second time to accommodate the length of the length of the paper).

 I attached all the cardstock to the calendar page with Tim's Tiny Attacher, and added some grunge letters painted with Ranger's Silver paint dabber.

I needed something to pop that accent piece off the page. I cut the Harlequin border out of a rich silvery paper and then traced around my Ornamental die to mat it on more of the same.   Cut out my tickets with the Sizzix ticket strip die and stamped Tim's blank 'admit one' image on top.

There you have it.  Remember our new challenge started on Wednesday.  We hope you'll join in!

                             

Ranger Perfect Pearls Mists - Pewter	Ranger Perfect Pearls Mists - Blue Patina	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Harlequin Border Die	Sizzix Alterations Decorative Strip Tim Holtz Ticket Die	Sizzix Alternations Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Ornamental Die
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Odds & Ends	Tim Holtz Sizzix Texture Fades - Rays and Retro Circles Set	Tim Holtz Sizzix Texture Fades - Collage & Notebook Set	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber - Pitch Black
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Attacher	Tim Holtz Idea-ology Tiny Attacher Refills