Word Plaques and Door Hangers

These are so popular right now and in my massive sorting session I came across a load of these wood blanks to make them.

I am having issues with the "Safmat" I used to print the wording on, when I embossed over the top to give them a nice textured  glossy finish the tape reacted with the heat, so not so good. The  pink one I used with glossy accents which was a  little better.

The flash from the camera makes them look worse :-( in natural light they are not so bad.  I think I will try some with a lighter pastel colour background as that might help too.

Used:

• Wood blanks (Ebay)
• Ranger Paint Daubers by Tim Holtz
• Glossy Accents
• Ultra thick embossing powder 
• white embossing powder & Brilliance white pad (pink plaque)
• Safmat
• Glue Pad
• Stazon inks 
• Artemio Stamp Flourish
• Sandpaper

Method:

1. Sand the shapes to remove any rough edges
2. paint with the daubers and allow to dry
3. In a toning colour stamp the flourish design
4. Add the self adhesive cut out lettering
5. Dab all over with a glue pad and coat in UTEE and melt with a heatgun - or cover with Glossy Accents and allow to dry
6. Add a metal picture hanger to the back (plaques)

TFL

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