Copper Valentine
So, my wife and I exchange hand-made valentines as our tradition. For the past three years, she’s given me a mosaic piece that are all tied together through an encrypted message that I have yet to figure out. It’s like “Happy V-day…dummy!” :) Anyway, because she’s making the final of these connected valentine mosaics, and mosaics are big projects, she’s way behind. So we haven’t done our exchange yet. So I’m still fiddling away at elements of my gift to her. Today, I made a copper valentine. It’s about three inches across. I cut it out of thin copper sheet with tin snips, rubbed a texture into it using a form below and a sharpened dowel above, rubbed ink in, dried it, and then adhered UTEE (plastic granules) with Versamark ink pad to the raised bits of the texture and melted the UTEE with my heat gun. Once that was done, I rubbed bright-pink colored mica dust into the raised plastic design. The idea was that it would fall to the low areas, but it did the opposite and stuck to the plastic parts. Then I remelted it to set the color/texture combination. Oh, and I punched holes for later application before I started coloring. I was rushed, but I quite like it.
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