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Originally Posted by smithr66I don't understand how sticky paper would work. If the whole thing is sticky, how do you get glitter to go just where you want it? And if you're glittering the whole page, why would you need a stencil? |
If you want the hole page to be glittered you don't need a stencil, but, if you want only parts of the page to be glittered then the stencil covers the places where you don't want glitter but want to put something else like embossing paste.
Here is the quick and dirty explanation of using embossing paste with a brass template and JAC paper. If you plan to do this you should go to dreamweaver.
You soap up your brass template with a vegtable oil soap so that the template won't stick permanently to the sticky JAC paper.
Lay the template on the JAC paper
Hold the template down with post-its (this keeps you from getting paste where you don't want it and when you lift up the template from the JAC paper)
spread the paste over the template - don't smoosh it to hard as you don't want the paste to go under the template
remove the post-its in reverse order of how you laid them down (remove last one first). before you remove the last (first post it you put down) post it, slide the template to about a 1/2 inch over the edge of your work table, hold the JAC paper down on the very edge and push the template down of the edge of the table towards your body - the template will start to pop up off the JAC paper. Carefully lift the template along with the last postit off the paste - you don't want to smear it because it's almost impossible to fix
Immediately clean your stencil with Simple Green or other similar cleaner. If you don't clean your stencil right away its really, really, yes really hard to get off of your stencil.
Let the embossing paste dry.
Sprinkle glitter over the JAC paper and tap off the glitter - the glitter will stick to the JAC paper and NOT the embossing powder. This is the reason to use the JAC paper.
I know this was long, but I hope it helps. It does take some practice to use embossing paste so you can get a smooth finish. I do recommend you read up on it at dreamweavers.