Dice Dice Baby!!!

Hello and Happy New Year everyone!!! I wish all of you peace, love, good health, prosperity, and much craftiness in 2014!!!
The wonderful and talented Eileen Hull, has designed new Cube Dies for Sizzix. These dies have become all the rage, and now her and Amy Bowerman have started a new movement in the crafting world, called Artist Trading Blocks or ATB's using these dies, and their new site The Artists on the Block is the talk of internet town. I was fortunate enough to be given the die cuts to make my own ATB's, and since I did Eileen's Baby 'Punk' Booties in Industrial style, I decided to do the blocks the same way...Industrial Dice! Eileen will be showing these at CHA...at least I hope so.

I mounted foil sheets on manila and cut them to size, 3 inch by 3 inch, and made 12 of them. I used Gold Metallic Mixative from Ranger to color some of the Silver Foil Sheet.

I used six different Tim Holtz Texture Fades from Sizzix to dry emboss each square.

I used Alcohol Ink and Paint Dabber to add some shadowing and definition to the backgrounds, along with a little sanding.

I mounted each square on Eileen's Cube Die pieces.

Then came lots and lots of metal tidbits.

I coated each side with Glue N Seal to protect and really seal everything up. I added Foil Tape to all the edges, and attached a chain to connect the dice.

 

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I hope your hands get creatively dirty soon!