Arnold Grummer's Design Team Blog

Bring on the holidays, I'm ready, are you? I'm stepping outside my box today and made a gift tag out of Creative Paper Clay ! It was fun and easy to work with too. I was pleasently surprised at how well it accepted the ink too when I stamped my Susan K. Weckesser stamp, from the Garden What Not Collection . After that was done, all I need to add were some ribbons from The Ribbon Resource and a few little rhinestones. I made a very short video of the process for the Paper Clay creation of the tag, hope you enjoy it and try making one too.

I'm getting ready for Christmas gift and card giving. I always like to give a handmade card and gift tag. And what better example of handmade than using my own handmade papers and castings. I made the paper for this card and tag using these basic instructions . For the embellishments I used Arnold Grummer's paper casting molds and UTEE (ultra thick embossing enamel). The first mold I used was the Noel mold ; the other was the Snowflake mold . By the way, molds are on sale now— 15% off holiday molds !! The first step when using UTEE is to generously coat the mold with a release agent. I brushed on embossing ink. Mold coated with release agent For the Noel casting I also colored the clear UTEE with alcohol inks to get the beautiful green shading. The best way to color the UTTE is to add alcohol ink, drops at a time, to the dry UTEE. Next, I heated the colored UTEE in my melt pot. When the UTEE was melted, I added  Gold Mica D'Lights  for a hint of sparkle. I ...