UTEE frame over at It's A Creative World

Just a quick post with a sneak of my new UTEE frame that I did for my post over at It's A Creative World today.  They are really easy to make, though you have to avoid the slightly burnt UTEE fingers by being patient and letting things cool :D.

Cabachon Style UTEE Roses

We popped to the shops yesturday and had promised the kids that if they were good they could get something from the poundshop:).  I came across these silicon chocolate moulds - I have been looking for some molds for UTEE and in the pack I got 2 roses, a scalloped heart,square,diamond, 2 circles and star.  So I dug the roses out this afternoon and had some clear UTEE in my pot to play with already, I added a couple of drops of the orange dye and then mixed it in (that is the right hand rose) and for the second added some of the magenta dye.  I was really pleased with the way they turned out and how easy they were to make.  

UTEE Frame



This is my first attempt at a UTEE frame, thanks to the advice from my friends on Ukscrappers I managed to get tips on how to do this and a link to the Stampman blog.  I painted my frame 1st in purple and blue acrylic paint, then covered it in one of my wet ink pads and started adding clear UTEE - which was very dappled at 1st but as you build up the layers it gets smoother...I then did patches of different colours all over the frame, and heated up some more silver,purple and blue UTEE in my melt pot.  I had a go at pouring this out and stamping into it, and whilst it was still warm (though be very careful I have singed fingers) I was able to cut out and break off the bits of the stamps I wanted and then melted that and the remanents of UTEE into my frame.  I then covered some MS monarch butterflies in UTEE and some flowers in that spare UTEE, melted and stuck them on.  I tried adding some small beedz into the UTEE too....I added a little glitter and some perfect pearls which is the shimmer you can see in the stamped images.  Time flew whilst I was doing this and my kids want to have a go at it too :) I still need to learn lots about UTEE and melt pot but had a lot of fun making this!