Paris Memories UTEE frame By Linda Strawn

1. Melt 1/2 cup of clear UTEE in a melting pot to this mixture add 1/2 scoop of FLEX and stir very slowly with a wooden dowel. If you stir too vigorously you will induce air bubbles. Set aside. All products are available from Suze Weinberg Studios.

2. Review direction for faux Dichroic glass (click here for link.)

3. On a Teflon heat resistant mat from Ranger , cut a piece of rainbow heat foil to cover a large sq slide frame, frames are available from Hot of the Press and are part of their card maker series. Lay the foil rainbow or colored side down.

4. When UTEE is completely melted and a light amber color grasp slide frame with a tweezers and place in the melting pot to lightly coat slide frame with UTEE. Grasp with a tweezers and remove, letting most of the excess drip off. Lay the slide frame onto the foil, and push down hard to make good contact.

5. Let this dry till cool to touch and remove the foil, you will see that the rainbow side has adhered to the frame. Using an Exacto knife, remove excess UTEE from the center and edges of slide frame.

6. You must do this step quickly, grasp slide frame with tweezers and quickly dip foiled UTEE into hot UTEE, remove it quickly and lay it onto the mat to dry. Remove excess again. NOTE: do not let it sit in the hot UTEE or the foil will melt off. This will add a nice coat to seal in the foil.

7. Laying the foil side up use your heat gun to melt slightly and smooth the frame, you will note that the foil starts to crack and craze giving it a look of diocloric glass. Don’t let the heat sit long in one place or you will melt your foil off.

8. Clean off excess one last time from the inside and outside edges and then use your heat gun very quickly to smooth our cuts. Set frame aside to dry.

9. Cut a piece of white glossy cardstock 4 x 4, using a stipple brush stipple on butterscotch, terracotta, and ginger, and a touch of red pepper and lettuce. Let dry. Inks are Adirondack from Ranger

10. When dry using espresso ink stamp your choice of images, I used small mountain, bare branch, and cattails from Stampscapes, at the right corner I used 1771 think background script from stamp in the hand. At the top I stamped Memories from PSX in rust.

11. Cut a daisy prints paper #24 available from All My Memories into 8-1/2 x 11 and cut this in half and fold into a card. This paper is double sided so save a scrap to use at the top. Mount the stamped square onto card.

12. Cut the photo of the woman in a hat available from Stamp Oasis the size of slide frame. Check to see where photo frame will lay on the bottom left side of card and mark, glue photo onto the mark. Using double sided tape glue frame over photo. See finished picture.

13. On ecru cardstock stamp Eiffel tower using ginger ink and cut out, glue this to the right side of card. See picture for placement.

14. On a scrap of paper left over from card, use the green side and stamp with espresso ink Paris, both stamps are from Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers. Trim image and mount at the top center of card.

15. Embellish with a charm of France and a saying along picture frame top. See picture for placement.
 

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