A Spring Ornament

 Happy Wednesday everyone! leslierahye  sharing a fabulous Spring ornament. This project features the new pearl gel enamels along with some great Piccolos including the Chocolate Bunnies, the Tiny Flourishes and the Daisies.  I hope you enjoy!

Globecraft & Piccolo Products used

3D Enamel Gel DAFFODIL PEARL*
3D Enamel Gel ROSE PEARL*
3D Enamel Gel LEAFY GREEN
3D Enamel Gel BURNT UMBER

Enamel Powder AGED PINK*
Enamel Powder VICTORIAN BRONZE

Daisy Floral Accents & Frame A129
Tiny Flourishes Accents 1/2" A138
Chocolate Bunnies A146
DIY Landscape Ornament ORDIYL1

Glastique GLOSS Finishing Glaze 2 oz.

Enamel Powder Adhesive Fluid

Border Die BUNNY & CHICK B171

*=new release item

I adhered the chipboard pieces to book paper with Glastique I coated the Bunny with Burnt Umber Gel Enamel. once the frame was dry, I trimmed it out, sanded the edges and then brushed on a thin layer of the Burnt Umber Gel Enamel to tint the frame brown. 

The color on the flowers was added with a brush to get all the details of the dainty daisies.

Edges of the frames and the center frame for the ornament were heat embossed with Victorian Bronze.

Punches were diecut from the Bunnies and Chicks Cheery Lynn Border. I used book paper covered with heat set Aged Pink Enamel. They were added to the globe ornament for "confetti". The Bunny and daisies were added to the globe and the whole thing was glued shut with Beacon 3-in-1 to hold it tight. A pink hemp string was added to the ornament for a hanger.

I hope you enjoyed my project! Thank you for stopping by today!

Elegant B&W card and Globecraft & Piccolo's New Spring Release!

I hope you have been looking at the Globecraft & Piccolo Blog this week, you have GOT to see all the goodies my Teamies came up with to celebrate the New Spring Release! 

I love black & white, I think it is so elegant – and to continue with the elegant theme, I made this “Thinking of You” card using one of the NEW Flourish sets.  Honestly, I had another project planned, but life got in the way, so I am sharing this lovely card.

Here is the finished card

The card was simple as I had all the ingredients here.  It’s larger than most cards I make measuring 6” x 6”, but I wanted to give a proper showcase to the embellishments and the lovely textured paper I used.

This is all you need to make this card:

• NEW A157 Vintage Corner Flourishes 
• Micro White Embossing Enamel
• Enamel & Embossing Powder Adhesive Fluid
• 6” x 6” black white base
• 5 ¼” x 5 ¼” embossed black cardstock (I used paper from Francis Meyer, but you could just as easily make your own)
• Sentiment (I used an old SU! set called “All Year Cheer”)
• Black Cardstock
• Pop Dots 
• Cream & Black Strip (I got mine from GCD Studios Paper Pad “Paris Nights”)
• White Cardstock for your Sentiment
• Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black

First, emboss your Flourishes with the Micro White Powder.  I embossed the flourishes about 6 times, coating it with more Embossing Fluid & Micro White Embossing Enamel each time to get the coverage I wanted but since the powder is micro fine I hardly used any of it at all.  Set these aside.  Stamp your sentiment on the white card and trim to a rectangle, then trim a piece of black cardstock to mount it on, making sure you leave enough room

to place your flourishes.  I fooled around with the placement of the flourishes quite a bit before I was happy and I even trimmed the square down further once I had attached the flourishes on (which was pretty gutsy, if I had made a mistake I would have to think of another project!).  

The beautiful embossed black cardstock

 Then I cut the 5 ¼” square out of the embossed cardstock, adhered that to the base, put the cream and black strip on, then pop dotted the final square that has the flourishes and sentiment on it to give it that much more texture (even though you can't really tell by the photos).

That’s it!  I love the look of the embossed flourishes with the embossed cardstock.  I hope you like it! Blessing to you & yours, Christi

Denim Blues -----

It's new release week. And my-oh-my are the new items wonderful. Teresa here today with some great earrings that are just prefect to dress up my daily blue jean and t-shirt wardrobe. 

Lets get started.

From Globecraft and Piccolo you will need:
- Vintage Corner Flourish Piccolo Set A157
- Glasstique Gloss Finishing Glaze
- Embossing Adhesive
- Deep Blue Sky Embossing Powder - this is a fine detail powder that can easily be used for stamped images.
- French Loop Earrings 

You will also need
- assorted beads for the charm in the center
- jump rings
- 2 short pieces of fine silver chain
- assorted jewelry assembly tools
- heatgun


Now then let's get started.

I took two of the Flourish Piccolos and decided quickly that I did not want those extensions on them. These are laser cut from book board and are easily trimmed with scissors.  The top flourish has the extended parts and the bottom one has been trimmed.

After trimming the Flourishes, I embossed both sides of each with the Deep Blue Sky Powder. (every time I try a new powder it becomes my favorite)

I put three layers of powder on these.  The process of embossing takes just minutes,  so layering is easy to accomplish.

Just look at those gorgeous blue tones.

To strengthen and gloss up the finish, I cover the shapes with gloss Glastique Glaze. For the fine detail on these, I squeezed a bit of the Glastique onto a tiny paint brush and simply brushed it on.

Then I patiently waited for it to dry.

I gathered up my other bits while those were drying. You see two different charms there. I had a difficult time deciding which to use.

Just look at that blue.

After the shapes were dry, I added the chains to the tops of the curls with jump rings.

Added the charms (I finally decided the blue grey and silver looked best) and hooked through the earring loops.

Ready to wear.

The book board is light weight so these are VERY comfortable to wear. They can easily be customized for your wardrobe. Just pick your favorite color of the embossing powders.

There are some wonderful items in the NEW RELEASE section of the web site.

Have a beautiful day.

NEW RELEASE | A Lucky Pendant!

  
 Happy Wednesday everyone! leslierahye here to share with you some of the FABULOUS new release Piccolos!!! I am so excited about my project today!! 

 I began by embossing St Patty's Day Accents by applying Enamel Powder Adhesive and dusting with Mossy Glen and Shamrock Dreams Emboss Enamel. The lighter color is the Shamrock Dreams color. Emboss the Vintage Corner Flourish with Victorian Bronze. The rectangle bezel is embossed with Aged White. I added multiple layers and laid 3size 8 beads into the melted enamel. Once cooled, I applied more enamel adhesive and Aged White powder to coat the beads. While the enamel is still hot, I sprinkled Victorian Bronze over the beads to repeat the color in the pendant.

Piccolos were adhered to the Bezel with Glastique and the edge of the Bezel was colored with an alcohol marker. Next I used Enamel Powder Adhesive to add Aged White powder to two metal washers. I heat set the washers and added more powder to build up a "donut" shape. Remember heated metal is H O T! be sure it is cooled completely before touching. The donuts were also edged in green alcohol ink. Burlap string was colored with the same alcohol ink to coordinate it to the pendant. The washers were tied on and a mini shamrock was adhered to the dangling washers with Glastique.

I used a piece of leather for the necklace, threading it through the eye of the bezel and the Victorian Corner Flourish 

Globecraft & Piccolo Products used

Enamel Powder AGED WHITE*
Enamel Powder MOSSY GLEN
Enamel Powder SHAMROCK DREAMS
Enamel Powder VICTORIAN BRONZE
Enamel Powder Adhesive Fluid
St. Patty's Day Accents A149*
Vintage Corner Flourishes A157*
Rectangle Bezels (pack of 4) B111
Glastique GLOSS Finishing Glaze 2 oz.

*=new release item

I hope you enjoyed my project! Thank you for stopping by today!

Peekin'

Want a peek at something brand new???!!!

Pat Secrist, owner of Globecraft Memories, created this jewelry assortment a few days ago.  The jewelry features our Piccolo Enamel Powder, our "coming soon" Piccolo Enamel GELS, and of course, our favorite product: Glastique!

We're so excited to share with you in the coming weeks so stay tuned! Follow us on Facebook and twitter for updates as well.

Thank You Michigan!!!

We're back from the Michigan International Women's Show --we had an amazing time!! Thank you to everyone who came by the booth and met with Pat and the Globecraft Memories tea. We really enjoyed sharing our Piccolo Card Decor, Enamel Powders, and new products with you this weekend!! Here are some snapshots from the booth:

 

Thank you again and see you soon!

A Sneak Peek at Piccolo Charms!!

Crystal Copperstone and Susan Helder visited us last week at the factory and

played around with some of our not-yet-released Piccolo Charms and our new

Piccolo Powders.  Fun was had by all!

Crystal will be with us at our booth at the Michigan International Woman's Expo in Novi Michigan May 3rd - 6th along with our brand new Piccolo Charms

(a few of which you can see in the pictures). Stop on by booth 111/113 and say hello!!

A Peek at New Product Being Released at the Michigan Women's Expo

Candy Spiegel and Linda Neff came to the factory today to play around with some of our soon-to-be released Piccolos and made some gorgeous cards for the Woman's Expo in Detroit this  weekend.  

All the Piccolos are coated with our Enamel Powders of course. :)  Enjoy this little peek behind the scenes:

Stop by and see us in booths 111 and 113!! We'll be here from May 3-6, 2012.