Chameleon Collaboration

Chameleon™ Art Products is a company determined to change the way you think about marker pens. They pride themselves on having developed real innovation that enhances your ability to maximize your creativity. Their markers bring color control and simplicity to your art, and you can create stunning 3D effects, smooth transitions, highlights, and shading gradations all with one pen.

Did we say prizes????     

Stampendous will offer three prize packages to winners in the US, UK or Canada.  Be sure to tell us where you live when commenting.

US or UK winners will receive a Cling Create Christmas Stamp Set and Perfectly Clear™Stamp Handle from us or our UK distributor, Woodware Craft Collection.

Winners from Canada will receive a $20 USD Rewards Card to spend on our website.

Deadline to comment is Sunday, July 19th, 11:59 pm PDT.  Chameleon will be offering a fantastic prize as well, so be sure to visit their blog for more details.

There is more! Our Australian Distributor, The Stencil Specialists, are sponsoring a prize for one friend “down under” to win a Stampendous Stamp, a Dreamweaver Stencil and a surprise goodie from their terrific stock of Stampendous merchandise!  Tell us where you live when you comment to be in the drawing!

Today, I am participating in the Chameleon Hop, the Stampendous Christmas in July Theme AND Dreamweaver Thursday:

Although tomorrow, I promise much more coloring with these fantastic markers, I just wanted to point out one thing:  Chameleon Pens COLOR ON EMBOSSING PASTE (and when they color on metallic paste, they make a beautiful, shiny effect).

Materials:

R103 Music Score
FREG024 Aged Gold Embossing Powder
FRM04 Tea Stained Mica
MG011 Red Micro Glitter
MEM01 Memento™ Tuxedo Black Ink by Tsukineko®
VP001 Versamarker™ Watermark Pen by Tsukineko®
MPW811 Mixed Media Paper
FX71 Sticky Panels

DWLG676 French Horn Stencil
DWDGP Gold Embossing Paste
DWDEPT Translucent Paste
DWDPK Palette Knife
DWLM2010 Paste Spreader
Gold Handled Stencil Brush

Plus:Cardstock by Bazzill Basics Paper®
Scotch® Removable Tape by 3M®
Scotch® 1/2" Adhesive Tape by 3M®
"X" Adhesive by Xyron®
Chameleon™ Markers (Grass Green)
Time Holtz® Tea Dye Distress Ink by Ranger®
Distress Inking Tool
Foam Tape
Craft Knife

Instructions:

1. Cut the card stock to 9 1/2" by 6"and create a fold on the top.
2. Cut green card stock to 4 3/4" by 6" and adhere to the front of the card.
3. Use removable tape to adhere the French Horn Stencil face up on top of a piece of multi media paper.  Make sure to put the initial strip of tape all the way across the top of the stencil, creating a hinge.
4. Use the palette knife to place a strip of Gold Embossing Paste across the bottom edge of the paste spreader.  Make sure you have a long enough strip of paste to cover the entirety of the image from side to side.
5. Place the bottom edge of the paste spreader directly on the top edge of the stencil with the paste facing you.
6. Pull the paste spreader towards you across the stencil.  (Think of a squeegee).  The embossing paste should completely fill all the wells in the stencil.
7. Carefully remove the tape from the sides and bottom of the stencil, leaving the hinge on top.
8. Lift the stencil from a bottom corner, like a door and then remove it entirely from the area.
9. Clean and thoroughly dry the stencil.
10. Repeat steps 3-9, but use the Translucent Embossing Paste.  Focus only on the ribbon in the image, so you can cut the paper smaller, use less paste, and start the "pull" just above the bow.
11. While the Translucent Paste is still wet, generously cover with Red Micro Glitter and let the glitter stay in place.
12. When the Translucent Paste is completely dry, brush off the excess glitter with a stencil brush and cut around the ribbon and bow with a craft knife.
13. Use the Chameleon Pen in Grass Green to color the holly leaves directly on the dry gold paste.
14. Stamp the music image on ivory card stock and rip in half.
15. Distress the edge of the music sheets with the Distress Blender and Ink.
16. Run Sticky Panels around the edges of a rectangle about 1/4" inside the green card stock.
17. Place music sheets on the Sticky Panels, adhering the inside of the sheets with another adhesive.
18. Fill in the additional Sticky Panel edges with Mica Fragments.
19. Use the Versa Marker to cover any additional areas that you would like gilded.
20. Cover the Sticky Panel and Versa Marker areas with Aged Gold Embossing Powder and shake off the excess.
21. Heat with the Embossing Tool to melt the powder.
22. Trim closely to the French Horn image and distress with Distress Tool and Ink.
23. Cut red card stock about 1/2" larger than the horn image on both sides.
24. Mount the French Horn to the red card stock.
25. Run the cut out ribbon image through the Xyron "X" machine and adhere directly to the corresponding places on the French Horn image.
26. Use the foam tape to adhere the horn image onto the background.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I hope to see you tomorrow for more Stampendous and Chameleon Fun!

So, here are all the participants in the Chameleon Hop today:

Stampendous Blog

Lea Kimmel

Lyn Bernatovich

Kristine Reynolds

Tenia Nelson

Pam Hornschu

Alison Heikkila

Louise Healy

Laura Drahozal

Chameleon Pens Blog

Dreamweaver Stencil (only) posts:

Jamie Martin