Asian Fan Memory Glass Wall Hanging by Susan Chong

Prepare a 2x2 inch piece of memory glass by washing and drying thoroughly.

Using Copper Memory Foil Tape, edge the glass. Fold corners down and carefully burnish tape to glass.

On the back of the piece, apply 2-3 drops of Red Pepper Alcohol Ink and 1-2 drops of Alcohol Ink Blending Solution (Ranger Ink) Using a piece of felt or a tissue, tap ink over the entire piece. Allow to dry.

On the back of the piece, pounce Gold Metallic Acrylic paint over the Alcohol Ink. Allow to dry.

Turning glass to form a diamond shape, stamp Asian Fan (Stampin Up) in Black StazOn Ink on the front of the glass. Allow to dry completely. (If you don't like the placement of your image, you may very carefully clean it off with rubbing alcohol, allow to dry, and try again!)

Cut 4 pieces of Gold, Red, Black, and Red/Gold Stripe Paper Cord (Yasutomo) approximately 18 inches long. Begin wrapping the cords around the memory glass beginning at the bottom corner and wrapping the ends under. Cross cord in the back the criss-cross both ends over and around the top corner. Cross the ends again in back and let the "tails" hang down under the bottom of the piece. Using a piece of strong tape, temporarily secure cords to the back of the piece. Using a good, strong white craft glue, secure cords to back of glass. Trim ends to length desired.

Taking another small length of the same paper cords, string an Asian Coin charm onto cords. Make a loop and using the "tape and glue" method, secure to the back of the glass so the loop coin creates a "hook" to hang the piece.

After the glue on the back of the piece has completely dried, you may cut a thick piece of black cardstock or black felt to cover the back of the piece. Glue in place with white craft glue.

Finally, glue gold dragonfly charm to the front of the glass, placing as desired.

Poppies Slide Mailer by Karen Bourke Cover your double slide mailer with gesso and let it dry thoroughly. Paint using Plaid Italian Sage acrylic paint. You will probably need two coats. When dry, edge sides of mailer with a Krylon Gold leafing pen. On the front cover use embossing ink to stamp Art Deco poppy image (unknown) and cover with clear embossing powder – heat to melt. Use epoxy letters to spell out the word “Poppies” underneath the stamped image. Inside take two acetate transparency images, put through a Xyron machine and place face up inside the slots in the mailer and place the glass slides over. When you are happy they are straight and in place put accent beads around the slides and using a clear gloss finish (Glossy Accents) cover both the slides and beads. Let it dry thoroughly. On the inside left cover cut a piece of coordinating coloured cardstock and glue down the outside edges to make a pocket. Place a tag inside the pocket to place your greeting. Place a piece of coordinating ribbon around the mailer and tie in a bow adding embellishments (in this case a dragonfly and butterfly). Use a small piece of ribbon to tie through the hole in your tag.

Paper Bead / Glass Slide Necklace by Becky Chabot 1. Cut strips of paper with one angled end, various widths (1/4-1/2").   Roll the paper into a bead around a thick needle. I used a paper-piercing tool (Making Memories).   Glue the ends of the paper down. 2. Coat the beads with Glossy Accents to seal and shine them. The best way I found to do this was to place the beads onto heavy beading wire and suspend them by attaching the wire to two cups and stretching taught. Use a sponge brush to apply 2-3 coats of Glossy Accents. Let dry completely 3. Apply 3 colors of alcohol inks (used Ranger Butterscotch, Denim, and Bottle) to a glass slide with a felt applicator by pouncing a couple times and turning the applicator for variation. Let dry, and then pounce a few more times. Continue until you have achieved the desired look or the glass is filled with spots of color. I saw this technique demonstrated by Tim Holtz at CKU (Masters Nashville 6/05) on a different material. 4. Stamp a fish or two (stamp credit: The Angel Company) over the colors with black StazOn; apply a small amount of Stickles for sparkle; then adhere a blank slide over the decorated slide with Glossy Accents. 5. Apply a thin line of Glossy Accents around the edges of the slides and place into microbeads, covering the edge completely. Repeat this process twice. Let dry completely in between. Glue a brass shell charm to the front of the glass. 6. Glue one paper bead to the top center of the slides with Glossy Accents. 7. Use a needle threader to pull ribbon through the center bead then add beads to each side evenly.   Tie the ends together or affix closure hardware.

Leather Cuff Bracelet by Mary Lind

Use a glue stick to adhere a cancelled international stamp to a 1.5" square of coordinating cardstock. Sandwich paper in between two 1.5" square pieces of Ranger Memory Glass.

Run copper tape around perimeter of glass sandwich, burnishing with fingernail to front and back glass squares. Brush plumber's flux on copper tape. Using a preheated soldering iron, smooth on lead-free solder on copper tape. (Copper tape and lead-free solder available at Hobby Lobby.) Allow to cool.

Cut a piece of scrap leather into a rectangle 1.5" wide by the length of your wrist in inches (8" shown). Round corners using sharp scissors. Stamp entire front surface of leather using Versafine ink in Vintage Sepia (Architecture stamps by Art by Moonlight).

Glue soldered glass square to center front of leather using E6000. Punch two center 1/16" holes in one end of bracelet using Japanese punch. Sew on vintage glass button using heavy upholstery weight thread. Punch one 1/8" center hole at the other end of bracelet. Taking a 5" piece of 1 mm thick leather cord, fold in half to make a loop and pull the loop through the 1/8" hole (back to front) and pull two ends of leather cord through loop. Holding two ends of leather cord together, tie an overhand knot using both strands while leaving an opening large enough for the button to slide through. Trim leather cord ends close to overhand knot.

Blues Brothers Note Book by Viki Banaszak

Stamp each of the Blues Brothers (source unknown) on glossy paper. Color the background using red, orange and yellow water based markers. Use a blending pen to spread the ink.

Place a 1-inch square piece of glass over each of the faces; mark the area with a pencil; and trim. Clean four 1-inch square pieces of glass to remove fingerprints and dust. Sandwich each of the stamped images between two pieces of glass and, using copper tape, wrap the edges of the glass.

Take a rollabind-style notebook from the dollar store and add yellow dry wall tape to the top and bottom. Cut a 4.5- by 1.5-inch piece of polished stone background card stock and adhere it to the cover of the notebook. Stamp the words "We're on a mission from God" (source unknown) in the center, then adhere the Blues Brothers glass pieces on the left and right of the text.

Cut seven pieces of 5.25-inch ribbon and attach through the holes in the rollabind style discs and on the top and bottom of the notebook. Add a faux dicro piece in the center of the polished stone card stock.

Trinket Box by Mary Lind

Wrap 1/4" copper file around perimeter of five pieces of 1.5" square Ranger Memory Glass. Use fingernail to burnish tape.

Spray a little glass cleaner on a paper towel and clean five glass pieces.

Stamp images on four of the five pieces of glass using StazOn. Stamp image shown by Vickie Enkoff ( www.vickieenkoff.com ).

Work on Teflon craft mat. Brush a little plumbers flux* on the copper tape of the unstamped glass. This piece becomes the bottom of your box. Completely cover copper tape with a thin layer of lead-free solder. Use locking tweezers ( http://www.monsterslayer.com/SolderTools/TW-SSX-WGR.jpg )** to hold one of the stamped pieces of glass perpendicular to one of the sides of the bottom glass. Spread a little flux on the copper tape of the glass side piece and solder to bottom. Add three remaining sides of glass to the box in the same manner. Solder side seams. Add more solder to cover any holes or uneven places. Allow to cool. Fill with glass beads.

*Use flux sparingly to avoid gettin