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

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
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. Don’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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Friendly Plastic Pendant tutorial by di-did-it!

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
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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Why Not? use Friendly Plastic for card making? by Dee Paramour

Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Why not use Friendly Plastic on your next hand made card?  Dee Paramour  is a freelance designer, illustrator and faux effects artist. Papercrafter, scrapbooker and just plain allsorts crafter. Contributing designer for Making Cards, and British papercraft company. Slightly cracked, but happy.



She says "Got out my friendly plastic and cookie cutters out for this card. The colours have gone a little odd, but it does I'm glad to say look better in real life, honest."



Well Dee...I think it looks beautiful!  Can't wait for you to share more of your work.

If you would like to see more of Dee's designs, visit her website at http://fauxpainter-anartistsramblings.blogspot.com/



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