There are some ideas that, if I don’t master, they still continue to “worry” at me until I can’t bear it any longer and I have to have another bash at them and microscope slide decorations are one of those ideas I just can’t let go of, I still feel the need to master them, so my apologies if you see quite a few of them appearing over the coming weeks/months.
I got my Ranger Melting Pot out to try faux soldering again after watching a couple of demos on YouTube.
I decided, as this was just an experiment, to keep things basic. I took two scraps of a subtle snow print paper, putting them back to back between two microscope slides.
I then gently dragged each edge, one at a time in the melted embossing powder from the bottom of the pan towards the top. The results were encouraging.
I decorated both sides of the sealed microscope slide with textured, glittery, white snowflake stickers (from Lidl).
However, it’s always been the fixing for the hanging thread that I have had the main problem with, nothing I have tried up till now has looked aesthetically pleasing or been that durable, this time I tried 6mm ribbon clasps. Again, sadly I am not 100% with the results. The size 6mm is brilliant, but because they are primarily meant to be used on ribbon/leather etc. they have teeth, and I can see them, aghhh …… and on top of that they take a little effort to pinch them closed and that risks, after all that fiddle fart cracking the glass or the faux soldering, so yet again I need to think of something else that give me the “professional” look I am after.
Because the melted embossing powder sets almost as soon as it leaves the pan it is almost impossible to embed a fixing into it, which would seem to be the simplest idea. Gluing a fixing on top of the faux soldering is haphazard, looks messy and is not that secure.
Of course I could just go round the edges with narrow, self adhesive, aluminium tape but once again I have the problem of securing a fixing along the top because I like the back to look as neat as the front. I know this is just me being super fussy, but if you have any other ideas they would be very gratefully received as it’s driving me mad!
