Card tutorials, craft tips, and Stampin' Up products
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Card tutorials, craft tips, and Stampin' Up products
Card tutorials, craft tips, and Stampin' Up products
Card tutorials, craft tips, and Stampin' Up products
Today I have a simple embossing technique you'll love for easy cards. Grab an ink, paper, your favorite embossing folder, a greeting, and let's make a card!
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As you all may know, there are two main kinds of embossing that we do. One is "dry embossing", where you emboss the paper with either a stencil or embossing folder, using a die cut machine or an embossing stylus. The other is heat embossing, where you apply powder to ink on your paper and heat it until it melts. For this technique, we are doing both kinds! RUBBER MAT Before I get into the technique, I want to talk about rubber mats. To emboss a stencil or die using your die cut machine (Big Shot or Cuttlebug) you need a rubber mat. In this technique I used a regular rubber mat (Spellbinders tan mat) and had to shim with 5 pieces of cardstock to get it to make an adequate impression. Lynell Harlow, who pioneered this technique, developed a thicker mat to use, that works much better. Art 'n Soul is going to try to obtain some of these mats from Stampendous. Lynell has said that Stampendous has some in stock, but it's uncertain whether they will continue to carry it. We plan to try to get them in before Lynell's classes in August (which you should not miss; please scroll down for details) Please order one of these mats from Art 'n Soul if you want one, because they may not be available indefinitely. Now for this technique: I should say that I learned this from Lynell Harlow, and it's not only beautiful, but it's fun to do. My way is slightly different from Lynell's, but both work. I chose the Magenta Triangles stencil (TM-221) for this technique. I cut a panel of 80# Neenah Solar White cardstock to 3.75" x 5", using the Lawn Fawn LF-768 Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables die. I taped the panel to the back of the stencil and embossed it in my Big Shot machine. Every machine is different, and you may have to figure out the appropriate sandwich for your machine. For mine, I opened Tab 1 (you should set up your machine the way you would to emboss with an embossing folder) and I put down a metal shim, my rubber mat, 5 pieces of shim cardstock, my stencil with the panel taped to it, and both cutting plates. Once my panel was dry embossed, I added color using a mini blender and Distress Oxide inks in Wilted Violet, Broken China, and Cracked Pistachio. (The panel was still taped to the stencil at this point). If you move quickly with this process, you can remove the stencil and add your embossing powder to your panel, since Oxide inks are a fusion of dye and pigment inks and can be heat embossed. Unfortunately, since I did not move quickly enough, the bottom of my panel had dried. I replaced the stencil and added Versamark ink with a mini blending tool and added clear embossing powder over the panel. Once the panel was heat set, I decided to add another coat of clear embossing, so I placed the stencil again and added more Versamark ink, then more clear embossing powder. Placing the stencil is very easy at this point, because the triangles and squares have become raised up by the double embossing. Once I had the second layer of embossing done, I absolutely loved the look of the shiny and bright triangles and squares! I cut a strip of the panel, matted it in So Silk Glamour Green cardstock, and adhered it to my base card of Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock. I then die cut "Thank You" out of glossy black cardstock, using the Hero Arts Fancy Thank You die DI080. I sprinkled a few sequins at the end, and I still have half a panel to make another card. I hope you try this beautiful technique! Come in and see the card at the shop, it is so cool in real life. If this technique appeals to you, please check out Lynell Harlow's 4 new incredible stencil classes. Magenta Products Used: (If you are local, please look for products at Art 'n Soul. If you are not local and wish to find Magenta products, you can click on the link in the stamp or product name below each image, or you can visit the Magenta online store here). TM221 Triangles Other Products Used: Distress Oxide inks: Wilted Violet, Broken China, Cracked Pistachio Versamark ink JudiKins clear detail embossing powder Lawn Fawn LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables Hero Arts DI080 Fancy Thank You Glossy black cardstock So Silk Glamour Green cardstock Neenah Solar White 80# & 110# cardstock
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Hi everyone. I'm currently at a craft retreat with five wonderful stamping friends. We are having a week together getting inky and having lots of laughs. :) Today's card is just one of the many techniques we are playing with this week. This technique that has been around for a long time, but believe this is the first time for me to give it a try. Several years ago I bought this flower embossing folder from Stampin' Up! and honestly didn't use it very much. It has sat waiting for me and when I was researching embossing folder techniques (which is one of the set of techniques I am leading at the craft retreat), I found this idea and decided to play a bit. I'm happy with the results and am now looking a my embossing folders in a new way, and wanting to buy more. :) First, I embossed a piece of watercolour paper with my flower folder. Then using a brayer (or you could use a flat sponge, but it is a little more difficult), inked up the brayer with versamark and lightly ran it over the embossed image, catching the high spots of the design. Sprinkled clear embossing powder and heat set. This ensures I have a crisp outline of my image. I then watercoloured with distress inks. This time I only used Abandoned Coral, adding two layers of ink to create shaded areas. Stamped the sentiment several times with the same colour ink to get a good impression. Here's a close-up ... I hope you'll give this technique a try. Stamps: Many Everyday Messages (Hero Arts) Paper: Watercolour Paper (Arches 140 lb. Hot Press) Ink: Versamark; Distress Ink: Abandoned Coral Accessories & Tools: Manhattan Flower embossing folder? (SU!), clear embossing powder, heat tool, waterbrush
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Jennifer McGuire recently shared a technique using 3D embossing folders and a sanding block that she called Embossing Folder Pop. Taking away color with the sanding block lets the embossed images pop and appear to have highlights. I remembered that I had some Stampin' Up sanding blocks so I inked a panel and ran it through Altenew's Beautiful Bergenia embossing folder. Then I started lightly sanding the raised areas on the panel. Either my sanding block is too old, or my hand is too heavy because too much color was taken away. I ended up swiping the surface with a white pigment ink pad and I liked the results much better. A gold diecut "hello" finished off the card. I'm determined to try this again, with my order of Altenew's newest 3D embossing folders on its way and a lighter hand at sanding. Thanks so much for stopping by!
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Card tutorials, craft tips, and Stampin' Up products
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The Altenew Beautiful Bergenia 3D embossing folder with white pigment ink, 2 ways. The one on the left is purple cardstock embossed in my Big Shot, then I took a white pigment ink pad and rubbed it over the raised areas. Here is an example of how I do this, sorry it’s not the same embossed piece, but you get the idea. For the card on the right, I used a brayer and rolled the white pigment ink onto the embossing folder. I rolls vertically, horizontally and diagonally just to get ink all over the raised areas on the folder. (Again, not the folder I used for this card but an example.) if you apply ink to the raised areas, after you put it through the Big Shot, it’ll push the ink into the recessed areas of the card. Here I used the same color cardstock, a purple. After embossing I took a dark purple ink cube and ran it over the cardstock, the ink will hit the raised areas. I hope this explains how I get all this texture and color on the cardstock. Click on the photo below to go to the Altenew Store: Beautiful Bergenia 3D embossing folder
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