Birthday Wishes/Metal Flower

Good Sunday Morning to you all!

I was blog hopping the other day and came upon someone using metal to embellish a
bottle and they sold the metal as well, so I decided I would look to see how much the metal was and to my surprise it was cheap, but I realized I wanted it now....I am a bit impatient...and I thought I should try using a pop can.  I made my way to my husbands shop, only because I knew there was a ton of pop cans in there, ( just a trash can full).  I also new that I would find tin snips up there too.  I cut a can and took it back to my craftroom and first I colored it with Stazon ink, took the heat gun and dried it (I think that is necessary) and then cut the flowers out with the sizzix.  I embossed the flowers after cutting so there wasn't so much metal to emboss.  It worked and I was tickled.

The first picture is of the can after I cut it with tin snips.  It cuts really well with sharp scissors as well.  I did us scissors to trim it after I got the top and bottom cut off.  To put it in the sizzix machine I did take the metal and straigten it out, as you see here it does roll up.

This is the back side of the flower  I made.  Just to show you it really was the pop can.  It cuts very easy in the sizzix, but don't try your punches.  I did and locked them up, it wasn't easy to get them from being stuck.
The embossing is much better if you emboss after you cut the flower out.  I think it does better when you don't have a whole piece to emboss.




 This is the flower.  I used a antique brad from Stamp Up for the center.  Also the center piece from the Fun Flowers Die I did put in the center before the brad.

 This is the card I made using the flower for embellishment.    Outside

 This is the Inside of my card.

The Card Recipe Is:

Paper: White Base/Stampin Up

DSP: Stampin Up

Pearls: Stampin Up

Sentiment Stamp: Stampin UP

Punch for Sentiment: Stampin Up Scalloped Oval

Daisy Ribbon: Walmart

Brad: Antique/Stampin Up

Fern leaves: Punch Bunch

Scalloped Border and Corners: Martha Stewart Punch

Spellbinders: Labels 10 and Scalloped Ovals

Also for the flower: Tin pop can, tin snips, Stazon Ink, Embossing Folder, and a die for the flower, I used the Fun Flowers Die from Stampin Up

Thanks for stopping by

Have a Great Sunday!!

~Jodi~