That's How Thursday!

HaPpY HiP HoP!!!

It's Eva here today and as promised I am sharing a tutorial with you on how I created my card from Monday's H{ippity} Hop!  Are you ready for this "Monsterous" Tutorial???  ROFL...You'll see in a minute what I mean.  But first, in case you didn't see the card I am talking about, here it is.

So, let's get started!!!  And first I have to say thanks to Michael for being so nice and giving me his can of Monster drink after finishing it, as without that, I would have no card to share with you today..hehehe.  I guess I could have bought a sheet of metal, but why do that, when I had a perfectly fine metal can at home.  

 So, here are the items you need for the metal embossing and don't be afraid to try this at home...hehehe.....it's really easy.  Get your soda can and an embossing folder.  For my card I used a Tim Holtz folder that I have been wanting and just received and LOVE!

Next you need to carefully cut apart your soda can so it is semi flat.  At first it will be very insisting to curl up, but once you put it through your embossing machine I promise the embossed part will stay flat and this is what it will look like.

For the next step you will need to cut out the embossed metal image and get a bottle of acrylic paint out, for me, I used an ivory color, but it will be fun to experiment with different colors in the future, so try whatever color you have!

Ok, so promise not to laugh????  My project was so low budget, I didn't even have a foam brush at hand...and I was not about to go to the store for a foam brush, so guess what I used???  I just used a paper towel to smear the paint on my metal.  Just make sure you get sort of an even cover in the image everywhere, or at least most of the places.  Here is what it will look like.

And as the final step I just use an old nail file that I saved up for this kind of purpose to file off the paint from the protruding parts and this is how the final metal piece will look like.  

Well, that is it...how FUN is this????  Will you try your hand at it???  Sure hope so.  Make sure you share your metal projects at our current Ippity challenge thread on Splitcoaststampers.

Hope you enjoyed this little tutorial and if you haven't started the hop at the Unity blog, I promise you don't want to miss out on the eye candy, so please hop back to the Unity Blog!