I am having more fun than you're allowed, I'm sure !
That etching process is so fantastic that I'm starting to smell like chemicals, solvent ink pads and Sharpie markers and I dont even care !!
I decided to stamp using Rangers Black Adirondack Pigment Ink and heat set it. Works just fine. I also used a Sharpie to make lines. This was a test because this piece of metal was not flat to begin with.
floated it in the etching solution for 20 minutes because it was a thick piece of metal.
then... neutralized it with Baking Soda
washed it in the sink and got this....WOW
sharpie (results a little further down)
then I tested some other Ranger products on some of my pieces...a little paint, Perfect Pearl Mists and the new Distress Stains
I am overjoyed !!
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have also been busy on ETSY.
When the last one, (similar to this one), was grabbed up within minutes of posting I figured I'd better get busy again.
I keep everything extremely affordable...so..take a look.
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and now I must share this...you gotta love this lawyer !!
Rebuilding New Orleans caused residents often to be challenged with the task of tracing home titles back potentially hundreds of years. With a community rich with history stretching back over two centuries, houses have been passed along through generations of family, sometimes making it quite difficult to establish ownership. Here's a great letter an attorney wrote to the FHA on behalf of a client:
A New Orleans lawyer sought an Federal Housing Authority (FHA) loan for a client. He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral. The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track down. After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply.
(Actual reply from FHA):
"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803.
Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its
origin."
Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows:
(Actual response):
"Your letter regarding title in Case No.189156 has been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 206 years covered by the present application. I was unaware that any educated person in this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know that Louisiana was purchased by the United States from France, in 1803 the year of origin identified in our application. For the
edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France, which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain. The land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the
privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Queen Isabella.
The good Queen Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful about titles as the FHA, took tthe precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus's expedition...Now the Pope, as I'm sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created this world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called Louisiana. God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it, and the FHA. I hope you find God's original claim to be satisfactory. Now, may we have our loan?"
The loan was immediately approved.
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