Mosaic Class October 27, 2003

Instruction/Sample Page

All Images from www.jhone.com

Supplies: Cardstock, doublestick sheet or Xyron, embossing powder

First, cut up scrap cardstock into small geometric shapes as shown above. Next take a sheet of cardstock cut into the eventual shape you want for your finished piece. Run it through the Xyron to make one side sticky or cut a piece of double stick (like redline) to fit, peel off one side and attach it to your cardstock. Now peel down to expose the adhesive and begin to place the geometric shapes onto the sticky part, leave room for the 'grout'.  It helps to not completely expose all of the adhesive, just peel down as you go.  Mix and match colors and textures as you desire, you can even stamp on the scrap cardstock before cutting into pieces for a more textured look.  When the sheet is covered cover with embossing powder of your choice, I then take the sheet I peeled off the adhesive and place back over the design, I press and rub to get the embossing powder in every crevice.  Now you need to brush off the excess EP thoroughly.  Heat to melt the EP. You may have excess corners hanging off - cut them off.  Now you can use this as a background, I tried stamping directly onto it but did not have great success, this may be due to different paper types used - textured and glossy both.  In my samples I stamped on vellum and embossed in a color that went well with or matched the EP I used on the mosaic. I attached the vellum piece with Xyron backing or tiny brads.  You could also cut the piece into smaller shapes and use as embellishments or make a frame in this fashion.