I saw a Facebook Live with the CEO of Stampin’ Up!, Sara Douglass, a few days ago and she was doing an emboss resist card using the Brushstrokes stamp set. Since I seem to be addicted to that technique at the moment, how could I not have a go?
I took a piece of Inside The Lines DSP, which was a paper from Sale-a-bration, and used the versamark and the Brushstrokes stamp before sprinkling the clear embossing powder and heating. I then used the cucumber crush dauber to add some colour to the paper. It really wakes up the paper. Fun. I then added a cucumber crush sentiment from Bunch of Blossoms which I cut out using the Stitched Shapes framelits dies. A little baker’s twine bow in cucumber crush finished the card which was added to a cucumber crush card base.
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After the fun with the heat embossing and watercoloring over the past couple of days, I decided to do a set in a different color way. So I took a complete page of watercolor paper and my Balloon Adventures stamp set and stamped in versamark sprinkling on clear embossing powder as I went so that it was easier to see where I’d been.
It takes longer to emboss on watercolor paper but it warps less than regular card stock. One it was cool though, I refilled my aquapainter and starting spreading water over the paper along with daffodil delight, melon mambo and pumpkin pie. I added more water, blended, added more colour until I was happy. Then I left it to dry before wiping over the whole page with a damp paper towel to remove any ink sitting on top of the embossing.
I divided up my piece of watercolor paper and although I originally planned to use various card bases, once I’d decided to add a strip of ribbon, that meant all melon mambo since I don’t have ribbon in the other two colors. So I added a piece of the 1/8 inch stitched ribbon and then a little circle with a sentiment from Bunch of Blossoms. I really like the small sentiment so that the background can shine – I adore how the colours have blended to create so many different shades and tones on the four cards.
I definitely need to try this again with more masculine colours, but I’ll give you a few days off from emboss resist and will share something different tomorrow!
I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get a selection of ribbon and sequins (6 yards in all) when your order is $30 or more; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 34ANVEHC (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, clickhere.
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See you tomorrow,
Just 6 days to go in Sale-a-bration! I’m working on my “final” order again – are you too?
A couple of days ago I was playing with the Avant Garden set when I decided to use the emboss resist technique with it.
I used a piece of watercolor paper for the top layer and, after using the embossing buddy, stamped the flower image from Avant Garden in versamark. It was hard to see where I’d stamped but if I held the paper at the right angle, I could just see where the versamark was so as to avoid stamping again in the same place. I sprinkled on the clear embossing powder and heated. I actually did two pieces at the same time figuring that it was likely that one would be the test piece but although they are different, they both came out well.
I took the first piece since it had had time to cool down and added a lot of water with my aquapainter. Then I used dapper denim and bermuda bay to add colour. I went back a few times, adding more of one colour or the other and blending in places. Whilst that was drying, I did my second piece, which I’ll share tomorrow.
The watercolor paper had bowed a little after the embossing and all the water, so the bermuda bay mat helped to straighten it, as well as give a good border. This then went onto a dapper denim card base. To finish off the card, I cut out the thanks using the Hello You framelits dies in dapper denim. I dabbed glue onto it using a sponge dauber and the silicone craft mat – this way, as I’ve mentioned before, you get enough glue onto the back without glue spooling around the cut out.
I was really pleased with how this technique worked and love the dapper denim and bermuda bay together. I’m going to try a few more colour combinations as well.
Just 8 days to go in Sale-a-bration! I just put in another order, stocking up on basics and getting extra rewards at the same time. It means that I have plenty of envelopes and glue and card bases to keep me going for a long time now! Why not do it when you get extras, right?!
I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get a selection of ribbon and sequins (6 yards in all) when your order is $30 or more; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 34ANVEHC (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, clickhere.
And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue.
Today I want to share with you a video that I watched recently and as soon as I can find some shaving foam, I’ll be playing with this too. It creates an amazing background piece, but of course you could die cut it or punch it into any number of shapes to create original looks.
I had intended on making a card to show with this video but this week didn’t go quite as I planned. One of my team members, Madhu, has been in the ICU since Wednesday and passed away on Friday. It’s been hard to think straight and definitely hard to create. I’m hoping that after the services today, I’ll be able to find some solace in the simple act of putting ink to paper. I hope that you get to do the same.
I hope you enjoyed the marbling technique video. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get a selection of ribbon and sequins (6 yards in all) when your order is $30 or more; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 34ANVEHC (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, clickhere.
And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue.
I was thinking about doing a little organizing since I don’t use my coloured embossing powders that often; these days I tend to use versamark on the stamp, then a colour and use clear embossing powder. In a very obvious attempt to craft rather than organise (!), I decided that it would be fun to use the Reverse Words stamp set again but have it multi coloured.
I did this by stamping the image onto the versamark ink pad and then used sponge daubers to add pool party, pear pizzazz and then sweet sugarplum. I stamped it onto a piece of whisper white and then covered it with clear embossing powder. After heating, I got this lovely glossy multicoloured background for my reverse words image. I added a few sweet sugarplum dots, a sweet sugarplum mat and put this all onto a thick whisper white card base. A similar effect could be created using baby wipes and re-inkers – I may give that a go soon.
I hope you enjoyed today’s project. Please use the Stampin’ Rewards code to get a selection of ribbon and sequins (6 yards in all) when your order is $30 or more; the current Stampin’ Rewards code is 34ANVEHC (if your order is over $150, don’t use the code, you get the rewards, but you still get the free gift). Click here to go to my online shop or here to join my team. To sign up for Paper Pumpkin, click here. For more details on my Customer Loyalty Programme, clickhere.
And don’t forget that during Sale-a-bration, for every $50 you spend (before taxes and shipping) you get to select a FREE product from the Sale-a-bration catalogue. Don’t have paper copies of the catalogs? Drop me an email and I’ll put one in the mail.
