Incorporate metallic silver embossing in small amounts with heat embossing
Life Doesn't Have to be Perfect Card - Supplies Needed
The star of this card design is the fun arrow stamp which becomes an open canvas for a variety of techniques. In this step-by-step tutorial I will demonstrate how you can personalize the look of the card by changing the color palette and how to apply selective heat embossing using a VersaMarker pen.
Supplies Needed:
- A2 size card base or white cardstock to create your own
- cardstock in a coordinating color
- large arrow pattern stamp
- markers
- sentiment stamp
- die cut (optional)
- metallic silver embossing powder
- black pigment (fast drying, non-bleeding) ink pad such as Versafine
- foam adhesive
- approximately 6 inches of ribbon in a coordinating color
- Scotch tape
- Versamark ink pad
- VersaMarker pen
Create the Base, Stamp Arrows and Color In
Instructions:
1. If you are not using a pre-made A2 card base, cut one out of a sheet of 8.5" x 11" cardstock. For this particular card, I cut the paper in half at 5.5" with the paper trimmer. By making one cut in the paper you are actually creating two card bases.
2. Use a scoring board and bone folder to create a crease in the cardstock. Start by aligning the card base in a horizontal fashion across the board, then use the bone folder to make the line at the 4.25" mark.
3. Fold the paper in half and now you have a vertical card base. Repeat with the other half of the paper if you wish to make two cards at the same time.
4. Cut the coordinating cardstock (in this case the light green paper) into a 4" x 5.25" rectangle then adhere it to the card front.
5. Cut a piece of white cardstock into a 3-7/8" x 5-1/8" rectangle.
6. Stamp the arrow pattern onto the white cardstock so that the image is bottom aligned and centered between the left and right margins.
7. Color in different sections of the arrow pattern using markers (or colored pencils) leaving some blank and in a random pattern. I left some of them blank to heat emboss later and some to leave as just plain white.
8. Using the VersaMarker pen, fill in some of the blank arrow sections with the embossing ink. Sprinkle embossing powder on top and then shake off the excess.
You can choose to fill in the arrows and repeat step 8 until you have them all filled with embossing powder and then only have to heat set once. Or you can heat set them as you go. Either way works. (For photos of step 8 used in another example of this technique, click here.)
9. Heat set the embossing powder with a heat tool. The nice thing about using a VersaMarker pen is the ability to go back and touch up (or fill in) spots that may have been missed the first time. In this particular design I found using the brush end of the marker produced a smoother embossed finish and required less touching up afterward.
10. Place the ribbon above the stamped arrows and secure to the white cardstock with Scotch tape on the backside.
11. Stamp the sentiment on a scrap piece of white cardstock
12. Use a die cutting tool (such as the Sizzix Big Shot), a hand punch tool, or a paper trimmer to cut the sentiment out of the white cardstock. Adhere it to the card using foam adhesive.
13. Adhere the white cardstock to the card base to complete the card.
Supplies Used:
- "stampers select white" cardstock (Papertrey Ink)
- "spring moss" cardstock (Papertrey Ink)
- die cut from the "labels collection" set #125598 (Stampin' Up!)
- sentiment stamp from the "perfect pennants" set #133230 (Stampin' Up!)
- Copic markers in "teal blue" (BG18) and "agate" (B99)
- Prismacolor markers in "peach" (PM-170), "avocado" (PM-192), and "muted turquoise" (PM-198)
- "arrow pattern #1416k" stamp (Impress Cards and Crafts)
- "onyx black" Versafine ink pad (Tsukineko)
- metallic silver embossing powder (Whispers)
- Sycamore Street 1/4" ribbon in "tangerine tango" (Stampin' Up!
)
- Scotch tape
- Versamark ink pad (Tsukineko)
- VersaMarker pen (Tsukineko)
- Sizzix Big Shot die cutting tool #113439 (Stampin' Up!)
To view this and more card designs, visit the About.com Card Making Flickr Pool.
The star of this card design is the fun arrow stamp which becomes an open canvas for a variety of techniques. In this step-by-step tutorial I will demonstrate how you can personalize the look of the card by changing the color palette and how to apply selective heat embossing using a VersaMarker pen.
Supplies Needed:
- A2 size card base or white cardstock to create your own
- cardstock in a coordinating color
- large arrow pattern stamp
- markers
- sentiment stamp
- die cut (optional)
- metallic silver embossing powder
- black pigment (fast drying, non-bleeding) ink pad such as Versafine
- foam adhesive
- approximately 6 inches of ribbon in a coordinating color
- Scotch tape
- Versamark ink pad
- VersaMarker pen
Create the Base, Stamp Arrows and Color In
Instructions:
1. If you are not using a pre-made A2 card base, cut one out of a sheet of 8.5" x 11" cardstock. For this particular card, I cut the paper in half at 5.5" with the paper trimmer. By making one cut in the paper you are actually creating two card bases.
2. Use a scoring board and bone folder to create a crease in the cardstock. Start by aligning the card base in a horizontal fashion across the board, then use the bone folder to make the line at the 4.25" mark.
3. Fold the paper in half and now you have a vertical card base. Repeat with the other half of the paper if you wish to make two cards at the same time.
4. Cut the coordinating cardstock (in this case the light green paper) into a 4" x 5.25" rectangle then adhere it to the card front.
5. Cut a piece of white cardstock into a 3-7/8" x 5-1/8" rectangle.
6. Stamp the arrow pattern onto the white cardstock so that the image is bottom aligned and centered between the left and right margins.
7. Color in different sections of the arrow pattern using markers (or colored pencils) leaving some blank and in a random pattern. I left some of them blank to heat emboss later and some to leave as just plain white.
8. Using the VersaMarker pen, fill in some of the blank arrow sections with the embossing ink. Sprinkle embossing powder on top and then shake off the excess.
You can choose to fill in the arrows and repeat step 8 until you have them all filled with embossing powder and then only have to heat set once. Or you can heat set them as you go. Either way works. (For photos of step 8 used in another example of this technique, click here.)
9. Heat set the embossing powder with a heat tool. The nice thing about using a VersaMarker pen is the ability to go back and touch up (or fill in) spots that may have been missed the first time. In this particular design I found using the brush end of the marker produced a smoother embossed finish and required less touching up afterward.
10. Place the ribbon above the stamped arrows and secure to the white cardstock with Scotch tape on the backside.
11. Stamp the sentiment on a scrap piece of white cardstock
12. Use a die cutting tool (such as the Sizzix Big Shot), a hand punch tool, or a paper trimmer to cut the sentiment out of the white cardstock. Adhere it to the card using foam adhesive.
13. Adhere the white cardstock to the card base to complete the card.
Supplies Used:
- "stampers select white" cardstock (Papertrey Ink)
- "spring moss" cardstock (Papertrey Ink)
- die cut from the "labels collection" set #125598 (Stampin' Up!)
- sentiment stamp from the "perfect pennants" set #133230 (Stampin' Up!)
- Copic markers in "teal blue" (BG18) and "agate" (B99)
- Prismacolor markers in "peach" (PM-170), "avocado" (PM-192), and "muted turquoise" (PM-198)
- "arrow pattern #1416k" stamp (Impress Cards and Crafts)
- "onyx black" Versafine ink pad (Tsukineko)
- metallic silver embossing powder (Whispers)
- Sycamore Street 1/4" ribbon in "tangerine tango" (Stampin' Up!
)
- Scotch tape
- Versamark ink pad (Tsukineko)
- VersaMarker pen (Tsukineko)
- Sizzix Big Shot die cutting tool #113439 (Stampin' Up!)
To view this and more card designs, visit the About.com Card Making Flickr Pool.
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