Last week while
Barb was visiting the 3FL+1 got together (which gave us 4FL vbg)....
Lucy and I had dabbled with etching before when we visited
Jen Crossley and armed with
Stephanie Lee's book Semi Precious Salvage we got together for a day of etching. I scored a large sheet of brass from work so we used that.. it was 1mm thick, fine for our purposes, but too thick to bend.
We stamped with stazon, immersed them in a bath of Ferric Chloride (and from the colour of my hands, they were immersed often too LOL). We left them a couple of hours while we moved onto other and had a lovely lunch with home made scones by Barb... then rinsed them off and dunked them in Liver of Sulpher...revolting smelling thing that just added more colour to my hands... I wish I had taken a pic of my hands.. they took a couple of days to return to 'normal' colour.. looked like I had jaundiced hands with black patina under the fingernails... I could have used them in my spooky book! LOL
As the L of S didnt turn the etching as dark as we wanted we then resorted to my black patina and all was good...we sanded them back with a bit of wet and dry sandpaper to bring the etching back up brighter, tried to re-sort who had what (note to self: next time mark the back of each piece so we know who did what!)
The pitched room one I plan to drill a hole in and make into a necklace... the larger rectanglar one will be the front cover of my spooky album...
We plan to have another go.. and work through Stepahnie's book cover to cover.. but thats after we finish our frame books we are working on....