"Working with Acetate"

You will need the following supplies: Close To My Heart Rubberstamps!! Tissue Paper Close To My Heart Re-Inkers Grape Sherbet and Clover Meadow Heat resistant Acetate (I use Office Depot Black and White Copier Transparencies) Future Floor Wax Prisma Glitter Embossing Pad ( you can substitute this by using permanent ink) Embossing Powder Regular Tape or Tape you use for cutting in when painting.

Stamp image on the acetate and pour embossing powder over it. shake off excess.  Take you heat tool and hold about 8 inches away continually going back and forth to heat the powder.  Be careful not to overheat as you will find the acetate will buckle if over heated

After embossing the image turn it over onto your scrap paper and tape around the acetate. Make sure this is taped all the way around so as not to let any of the Future leak to the front

Take some white tissue paper crumble up and then open up and smooth out.  Place a couple of good size puddles of Future Floor wax on top of the image.

Smooth the puddles of Future then sprinkle the prisma glitter on.

Place Tissue Paper on top of acetate and smooth (leave crinkles) poor more Future on top of Tissue Paper

Put a small drop of Grape Sherbet (or whatever you would like) re-inker.  Take finger and begin to move around gently.  If you have enough Future this will be easy to do.  Add another color (clover meadow for this card)  when you are pleased take your heat gone from at least 8 inches and dry using a back and forthe motion.  You could also leave this over night to dry.

When dry gently peel off your taped acetate and turn over.  Cut off excess and then mount on Cardstock.

All photos copyrighted by Chris Ramirez 2002

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