Anything But Paper on the Emerald Creek Dares Blog

It's time for a new two week challenge on the Emerald Creek Dares Blog and it's all about "Anything But Paper".  This challenge was extremely hard for me, as many projects I thought of had at least one aspect of paper on them. Once I figured out some of the elements I wanted to use on this project, primarily brads and embossing powder, I was off to the races. For my project I created a fun flower wall decor piece perfect for any little girls room. Lets get started and I will share with you how you can create my piece at home.

To start, you'll need to have your favourite wood shape in front of you,  this will be used as your base. Once your background wood piece is in front of you, trace a flower with pencil into the middle of the wood piece. After the flower has been traced, cover around the traced flower with Spun Sugar Distress Paint. You will need to apply two layers. Set aside to dry.

After the paint around the flower has dried, using the Flower Collage stamp, apply Versamark to it and stamp onto the top left hand corner of your wood piece. Continue applying VersaMark and stamping on the wood piece and making sure to go around the traces flower until the wood piece is  completely covered. In some places the flower collage image will end up in the traced flower and that's ok. Once the entire wood background has been stamped, cover the entire surface with Ultra Puff White Embossing Powder. Tap off excess and emboss with a heat tool. After the it's been embossed, cover the entire embossed floral images with two layers of Spun Sugar Distress Paint. Make sure to go into the traced flower with the Spun Sugar Distress Paint. Set aside to dry.

You'll need a whole package of Antique Silver Metal Circle Dot Brads. Once you have the brads out of the packaging, dump a little bit of Pastel Yellow Embossing Powder onto a piece of paper towel. One by one, put the top of the brad in the VersaMark and then set into the pastel yellow embossing powder, once the brad is covered, tap off excess and set aside. Continue this step for all twelve. After all twelve have been covered in embossing powder, one by one, heat emboss with your heat tool. To keep your fingers from burning, make sure to hold them with tweezers. Once the brads have cooled, take a pair of wire cutters and cut off the back part of the brad. After the backs of the brads have been removed, set aside in a pile of the same colour. 

You'll need to count out thirty one Flower Daisy Dots Brads. Once you have the brads set aside, dump a little bit of Pastel Pink Embossing Powder onto a piece of paper towel. One by one, put the top of the brad in the VersaMark and then set into the pastel pink embossing powder, once the brad is covered, tap off excess and set aside. Continue this step for all thirty one. After all thirty one have been covered in embossing powder, one by one, heat emboss with your heat tool. To keep your fingers from burning, make sure to hold them with tweezers. Once the brads have cooled, take a pair of wire cutters and cut off the back part of the brad. After the backs of the brads have been removed, set aside in a pile of the same colour. 

You'll need to count out another thirty four Flower Daisy Dots Brads. Once you have the brads set aside, dump a little bit of Pastel Lilac Embossing Powder onto a piece of paper towel. One by one, put the top of the brad in the VersaMark and then set into the pastel lilac embossing powder, once the brad is covered, tap off excess and set aside. Continue this step for all thirty four. After all thirty four have been covered in embossing powder, one by one, heat emboss with your heat tool. To keep your fingers from burning, make sure to hold them with tweezers. Once the brads have cooled, take a pair of wire cutters and cut off the back part of the brad. After the backs of the brads have been removed, set aside in a pile of the same colour. 

For the last set of brads that need to be embossed, you'll need to count out seventeen Flower Daisy Dots Brads. Once you have the brads set aside, dump a little bit of Pastel Mint Embossing Powder onto a piece of paper towel. One by one, put the top of the brad in the VersaMark and then set into the pastel mint embossing powder, once the brad is covered, tap off excess and set aside. Continue this step for all seventeen. After all seventeen have been covered in embossing powder, one by one, heat emboss them with your heat tool. To keep your fingers from burning, make sure to hold them with tweezers. Once the brads have cooled, take a pair of wire cutters and cut off the back part of the brad. After the backs of the brads have been removed, set aside in a pile of the same colour. 

Once all of the brads have been covered with embossing powder and the backs have been cut off, it's time to place your brads onto the traced flower on the wood piece. The yellow circle brads are for the centre of the flower and the rest of the coloured brads I alternated for each flower petal. To adhere them to the wood background, I used Pop Up Relief Glue Dots as they are clear and easy to form behind the brad. 

Here is a close up of what the embossed background looks like on the finished piece.

Products used from Emerald Creek:

- Flower Collage stamp

- Antique Silver Metal Circle Dot Brads

- Flower Daisy Dots Brads

- Ultra Puff White Embossing Powder

- Pastel Yellow Embossing Powder 

- Pastel Pink Embossing Powder 

- Pastel Lilac Embossing Powder 

- Pastel Mint Embossing Powder 

Other Products Used:

- Ranger Ink/Tim Holtz: Distress Paint - Spun Sugar

- Tsukinko/Imagine Crafts: VersaMark

- Glue Dots: Pop Up Relief

- Misc: Bracket Wood Piece

Make sure that you go and check out the rest of the Emerald Creek Dares Design Team as they have all created fantastic pieces for this weeks challenge:

Shilpa

Claudia

Cassandra

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my flower wall hanging. Don't forget to enter your Anything but Paper project into our Emerald Creek Dares Challenge for your chance to win a $25.00 gift certificate for the Emerald Creek Store!

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn