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Friendly Plastic Frame -Friendly Plastic Tutorial by Lucy Edmondson of True Colors

Linda Peterson Designs — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:10:00 +0000

Friendly Plastic Frame
by Lucy Edmondson
True Colors

This project is surprisingly easy. You will need Silver Friendly Plastic, strong double side tape such as Red Line, a suitable stamp (I have used one of my favourite Harlequin stamps from the Artistic Stamper, Glossy Accents, and Metallic Rub Ons, No 1. The image is from Crafty Individuals Flowers and Butterflies image book.

1. Take a 5 cm square piece of chipboard, mountboard, or strong card, and neatly edge it with narrow Red Line double sided tape (I have left the red backing on so it shows in the photo but remove this now).

2. Cut four narrow strips of silver Friendly Plastic to fit exactly onto the tape and adhere, so that the strips touch each other.

4. It should look like this now.

5. Holding your heat gun about 15 cms away, on the lower setting if you have one, heat the edges evenly until they soften slightly into each other and there is a crazed appearance evenly across the surface as shown. This will take about 30 seconds or more, depending on the heat of your heat gun. Donâ€™t over-melt and cause it to lose its shape.

6. Ink up the Harlequin Stamp with Versmark and stamp right across the whole frame, and leave to cool before removing.

7. Choose image and adhere to centre of frame.

8. Apply Green rub-on to the frame with your finger:-

9. Add a gem to the butterfly and apply Glossy Accents to centre of frame, to cover image. Leave overnight to dry and keep elbows away!

This is the final frame:-

This is a selection of art moulds made with Friendly Plastic, to whet your appetite for Part 2

More of Lucy's work can be seen on her blog so check it out: http://www.lucystruecolors.blogspot.com/
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A Series of Tutorials by Lucy Edmondson of True colors – Altered Friendly Plastic

Linda Peterson Designs — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:26:00 +0000

The next couple of days we will be featuring tutorials by altered artist Lucy Edmondson.

Lucy lives in North Hampshire,and is married to Colin, who is a landscape photographer, for 25 years. She's been rubber stamping for about 3 years or so, and has had her work published in UK magazines. She will teaching card making evening classes soon. Although she loves papercrafts, she also enjoys Mixed Media work and Altered Art because of challenge of working with different surfaces and experimenting with techniques. She is a member of 2 UK rubber stamping forums, and regularly has craft days with friends.

More of Lucy's work can be seen on her blog at: http://www.lucystruecolors.blogspot.com/

So now...enjoy Lucy's Tutorials:

When I was asked to suggest a tutorial for my term as DT Member for the Altered Element, I immediately thought of Friendly Plastic. This is a product I have used quite a bit over the last few years, and I knew Lynne was going to be stocking it, but I also knew some of my very experienced crafting friends had a bit of a fear of it â€“ even one friend who normally likes nothing better than a bit of smoking and burning! So I hope I can eradicate any fears â€“ you will not get a serious burn from Friendly Plastic. Many techniques do not require you to touch the Friendly Plastic with your fingers at all. If you are using art moulds, however, you might get a nasty Ouch! moment if you donâ€™t follow the simple rule of having a bowl of water beside you to dip your fingers in before you touch it, but otherwise you will be fine.

I had such a lot of material to cover that I am doing a two-parter, and I hope you will give it a go before I move onto jewellery in Part 2! When working with Friendly Plastic, you can either soften it to make an impression, or completely melt it for filling art moulds, etc. (I buy my Krafty Lady art moulds from the Stamp Bug and there is a huge choice). You can either use warm water at a constant 60 degrees C, using a thermometer, a griddle or oven, or a heat gun, but for the purposes of this tutorial I will be using a heat gun. When you buy your FP it will come in a strip, 17.5 cm x 3.5 cm, or in pellets, and there is a huge choice of colours and patterns, many of which are metallic, although some are primary colours:-

You are a little bit constrained by the size of the pieces at first, but once you get the hang of it you will be able to piece different colours together to create stunning effects, as with the beaded dragonfly art mould in Part 2. When you are choosing your colours of FP, you will notice that the name of the colour on the reverse of the tab has a secondary colour, and this is the colour of the back of your FP and it is often black, but can also be pink or blue, or a variety of colours. The reason I mention it is you can re-work all your little scraps of FP, but it will mean your secondary colour will be merged into your project, which can look very pretty, as with the touch of pink in the marbled heart. If you specifically want a project to just have the surface colour, just donâ€™t rework it and use your scraps for another time.The only other specific tool you will need for this first project, other than those you will already have in your stash, is a marbling comb, which looks like this:-

You can also buy friller tools and pokey tools but I won't be using them on this occasion.

And a small cookie cutter such as a heart or flower. We will use this on the first item, which will be an embellishment for the box we are going to decorate:-

Marbled Heart Embellishment
by Lucy Edmonson of True Colors

1. Cut strips of Friendly Plastic in a variety of colours to co-ordinate with your project, cutting across the width of the strip, about half a centimetre wide. Stick a piece of double sided tape to a heat proof craft sheet and place the strips as shown, so that they are touching each other, and held in place by the tape. I used Pewter/Black, Copper/Pink, Jade, and Light Blue. (The tape is to prevent the heat gun blowing the pieces away, but if you have the hairdryer type with less blow, you may be able to manage without).

2. Holding your heat gun about 6 inches away, and on the lower heat setting if you have one, start to heat the FP. After about 30 seconds the edges will start to soften and the surface will become crazed. You donâ€™t want the FP to become completely molten for this technique so turn off your heat gun now.

3. Gently drag the marbling comb through the warm FP from the bottom of the strip to the top to give this marbled effect. You can easily pull any stray bits off the comb to clean it.

4. â€˜Ink upâ€™ your cookie cutter shape, which could be a small heart or flower or similar, with Versamark to act as a release agent, and press it firmly into the warm FP. Leave it for approximately one to two minutes until it is cool, then remove the cutter. If it doesnâ€™t quite come away completely you can simply pull it from the sticky tape and cut around the outline with a pair of scissors.

5. I quite like the waste piece:-

Here is the final heart:-

This will form our embellishment to cover the ends of the ribbon on the lid of our box.

STAY TUNED FOR THE REST OF LUCY'S TUTORIALS...TOMORROW!

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Fracture and Fusion demo on Cool2Craft with Linda Peterson

Linda Peterson Designs — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:54:00 +0000

Don't worry if you missed today's live episode......you can view the archived link at any time convenient to you.

To view the archived show - click here scroll down to "previous discussions" and click on April 5th.

ENJOY!!

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Friendly Plastic Pendant Video tutorial by Karine Collignon

Linda Peterson Designs — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:14:00 +0000

This is a great video tutorial shared by Friendly Plastic Artist Karine Collignon of France. Click here to view her tutorial on creating this beautiful pendant.

Check out more of Karine's work by visiting her website: www.bijouxartcreation.com or friend her on facebook!

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Friendly Plastic Pendant tutorial by di-did-it!

Linda Peterson Designs — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:30:00 +0000

Thank you Di for sharing your tutorial on making this pendant!
This is a great project to start with if you are new to Friendly Plastic. Simple yet elegant!

Di shares:

I'm trying something new today and posting a tutorial. I don't know that this is my forte, but I indicated in a November post I would share the process I used to make the purple Friendly Plastic pendant, and today's the day. Today we're making a blue FP pendant.

Start with a bargain piece of costume jewelry. I'm using a silver clip earring. Cut a piece of FP slightly bigger than the earring and choose a stamp (I'm using one from Fancy Pants). Unmounted stamps work best if your piece isn't totally flat. You can use a stamp that's smaller than your piece, but I'm not good at placing them in the center so I just use oversize stamps to eliminate that problem.

Lay the FP over the piece & melt it with a heat gun.

When it's nicely melted, prepare your stamp by pressing it into a watermark stamp pad (I use VersaMark) and then pressing it into the FP. Use your fingers to press everywhere to ensure full contact. Experiment with the pressure for different looks. Firm pressure will reveal the metal underneath, which may or may not be your intent. That's what I did for the purple piece, but for this blue piece I chose to use less pressure.

When you're confident the stamp isn't going to lift from the FP, place the piece in a cold water bath to solidify the FP.

After a few moments remove the piece and carefully lift the stamp from the FP. The edges might be a little jagged, as you can see here.

Place a nonstick craft sheet (I use Ranger's) on a griddle and heat the griddle to 275. Lightly touch/drag the edges to melt/smooth them. Once cool, add your preferred glaze/sealer (I like Triple Thick by DecoArt) and a bail. Thread on a cord or chain and you're set!

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New Friendly Plastic TV Video – Glisten and Shine

Linda Peterson Designs — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:28:00 +0000

This is a brand new technique that I've never shown except at the Starving Artist Retreat in Colorado. Just a word of caution, do not use regular oil paints as it produces quite a awful smell when placed on the griddle. Genesis Paints are available thru AMACO - just email your questions by clicking here and they will hook you up.

Be sure to check out my etsy site too for more Friendly Plastic one of a kind jewelry! Makes great gifts too!

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