Hello! I’m Alison Heikkila. Kaleidacolor Inks come in beautiful color palettes and help you do some really fun techniques. I love to use my Kaleidacolor Inks with my Gel Press plates. In this case, we’re using one of the Petite Plates to get the look of a watercolored painting without actually watercoloring.
Skill Level: Beginner-Intermediate Time to Complete: 20-30 Minutes
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In today’s post, I made a card featuring earthy colors.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 1.5 hours
Directions:
Step 1: Stamp the top part of the main stamped image onto a piece of masking paper with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink. (If you don’t have masking paper, you can use a sticky note.) Cut out the coffee (or the inside part of the coffee cup) of the masking paper and place it onto a piece of watercolor paper over the corresponding part of the waterpaper.
Step 2: Stamp the coffee cup image onto the watercolor paper with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink, making sure that the masking paper covered up the coffee in the cup. (Optional step: Heat emboss with clear embossing powder.)
Step 3: Remove the masking paper. Stamp the coffee in the cup with Acorn VersaFine Clair ink. (I chose to mask the cup with the remaining masked paper before stamping.) (Optional step: Heat emboss the coffee with more clear embossing powder.)
Step 4: Spray Lilac Posies Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray onto a piece of acetate packaging and use the spray to watercolor the stamped flowers surrounding the coffee cup. Repeat the process with New Sprout Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray to paint the leaves. Repeat the process one more time with Rose Gold Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray to paint the cup and saucer.
Step 4.5: Die cut the coffee cup with the corresponding die. (Sorry that the pictures got messed up and you couldn’t see the pink shimmer paint from the Rose Gold Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray or die cutting the cup. My camera was glitchy. You will see the rosy pink shimmer in the next few steps.)
Step 5: Die cut a piece of black watercolor paper (or black cardstock) for the matte layer of the card.
Step 6: Spray Lilac Posies Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray and Rose Gold Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray into an embossing folder and emboss a previously die cut watercolor panel. After removing the watercolor panel, spray more Rose Gold Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray around the panel and then allow the panel to dry.
Step 7: Using a sponge dauber, ink blend the edges of the sprayed and embossed panel with Morning Mist VersaFine Clair ink.
Step 8: Stamp a sentiment on a piece of watercolor paper with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink. Trim the edges with your paper trimmer. (Optional step: Heat emboss with clear Mboss embossing powder.) Then press the edges of the sentiment into the Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink to create a border.
Step 9: I decided that I wanted to change the color of the border, so pressed the edges of the sentiment into the Morning Mist VersaFine Clair ink pad. (Optional step: Heat emboss with more clear embossing powder.)
Step 10: Glue the two panels together. Glue the coffee cup onto the pink watercolor panel. Attach a piece of black and white washi tape just a little bit smaller than the sentiment strip and then glue down the sentiment strip.
Step 11: Glue sequins on the lower left and upper right corners of the card.
Step 12: Finish the care by gluing the matte layer to an A2-sized white card base.
Other Altenew – Masking Paper – Masking Paper Erin Lee Creative – Stamp set – Coffee or Die Erin Lee Creative – Stamp and die set – Stayin’ Alive Gina Marie Designs – Die set – Big and Little Chain Rectangle die set Legion – Paper – Stonehenge Black Aqua cold press watercolor paper Sizzix – Embossing Folder – Mini Kaleidoscope by Tim Holtz Trinity Stamps – Embellishments – Champagne Twinkle Stardust Rhinestones Black and white washi tape Watercolor paper Paper Trimmer Scissors Glue
In today’s post, I am sharing a fun, summer card that features some bold colors!
Skill: Intermediate Time: 1 hour
Directions:
Step 1 Color a piece of acetate packaging with both Cottage Ivy Memento marker and Emerald Fabrico marker and then spraying the acetate with water. Press the acetate onto a piece of watercolor paper multiple times, moving the acetate around so add green color around the watercolor paper. Allow the water to dry.
Step 2 Die cut the watercolor smooshed paper with a circular die cut. Add a small dot of Pink Ultimate Pigment Pigment Refill into the raised areas of an embossing powder, and then spray the embossing folder with Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray to both help the watercolor paper stay moist (so it won’t tear) while embossing, and to help dilute the condensed pink refill ink. Then sandwich the watercolor paper into the embossing powder and run it through a die cutting machine. After the watercolor paper has dried, ink blend the edge of the circular die cut with Pink VersaColor pigment ink.
Step 3 Die cut another piece of watercolor paper with a slightly larger circular die. Directly press the Pink VersaColor Pigment ink pad onto the watercolor paper. Optional step: Heat emboss the ink with clear embossing powder.
Step 4 (and 4.5) Stamp an image onto watercolor paper with a nature scene with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink. Heat emboss with clear embossing powder. Using a variety of media to watercolor the image: Celestial Copper Delicata Ink pad mixed with water to color the rocks, Emerald Fabrico marker mixed with water to color the frog and leaves, Bahama Blue Fireworks! Spray to color the sky and water, and Pink Ultimate Pigment Ink Refill to color the flower petals. Finally, color the centers of the flowers with a Dandelion Memento marker.
Step 5 Watercolor smoosh some of the leftover inks from the last step to watercolor smoosh a piece of watercolor paper and then spray the whole thing with Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray. Use some additional color to stamp a text stamp in my stash to add a little interest onto the panel by pressing the stamp into the acetate instead of an ink pad. Repeat the process a few times until you like the amount of extra interest that is added. After everything dried, die cut the watercolor panel.
Step 6 Glue the two circular die cuts (the embossed panel and the larger pink die cut circle) and then glue it onto the watercolor background panel. After the glue dried, the whole thing was die cut again to trim the circular die cuts. The edges were ink blended with more Pink VersaColor Pigment ink. Splatters of the remaining Bahama Blue Fireworks! Spray from the acetate packaging were added to the panel as well.
Step 7 Stamp a sentiment with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink.
Optional step: Heat emboss with clear embossing powder.
Step 8: Die cut sparkly white paper with a slightly larger rectangular die. Glue the main (frog) stamped and die cut image onto the top panel, glue the matte (sparkly larger panel) behind the top panel and then glue everything onto an A2-sized white card base. Glue sequins to the card base.
Hi everyone! Are you ready to celebrate the Fourth of July? I made a sparkly, light-up card to celebrate the occasion. It’s been a while since I heat embossed with colorful embossing powders and I truly miss this simple and fun technique. Be sure to check out the supply list at the end to see the colors I used!
Skill Level: Advanced Time: 1 hour
Step 1: Stamp one image from MFT’s Festive Fireworks set with VersaMark ink pad. Then pour on embossing powder with the color of your choice. Repeat the steps if you would like to use different colors of embossing powders, making sure to heat set the powder before moving on to the next color. The colors I used today are Mboss – Valentine, Lucky Stars, Princess Party, and Shimmering Night Sky (not pictured here).
Step 2: Use Brilliance – Galaxy Gold ink pad to stamp the layering images. I used a stamp positioning tool so that I could restamp a couple of times and get good ink coverage. The gold stamped images look so well against the black background, don’t you think?
Step 3: I decided to add interactive elements to make this card even more festive! I used Chibitronics LED light stickers to create the light up circuit. If you are interested in making a light up card, feel free to check out the step-by-step video tutorial on my YouTube channel “Craft with Jessica V. Lin” and search for “How to Make a Fireworks Light Up Card with BLACK Cardstock”.
Step 4: For some finishing touches, I splattered some Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray to the background. I used the brush-over-acrylic-block flicking method, but you could use the spray nozzle to add a fine mist of shimmer as well. Then I adhered some sequins with On-Point Glue, and that completes the card!
Hello! It’s Alison Heikkila. In my latest YouTube video for Imagine, we’re going to create a sunset with Fireworks! Sprays. These pigmented sprays also have mica in them, which help you to achieve beautiful shiny effects. Creating backgrounds with these are really fun, and we’ll use a couple of techniques to do it.
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Skill Level: Intermediate Time to Complete: 40 minutes
In today’s tutorial, I am sharing the card I made for my mom for Mother’s Day, using sprays and ink mixed with Sheer Shimmer spray to watercolor the images.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 1.5 hours
Directions:
Step 1: Use a die cut to create a watercolor paper panel and then stamp a large flower stamp with Nocturne VersaFine Clair Ink. Heat emboss with clear embossing powder
Step 2: Spray Cantaloupe Fireworks! Spray onto a piece of scrap acetate packaging, and press the sprayed acetate onto the stamped panel, making sure to get spray on multiple parts of the stamped panel. Let dry.
Step 3: Press the Mango Madness VersaMagic Chalk Ink pad onto the acetate packaging. Then spray Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft spray onto the ink to give it a watery consistency. Then press this color of yellow ink onto the stamped panel to add interest and a variety of colors. Let dry.
Step 4: Repeat the process with pink inks. Spray Angel Pink Fireworks! Spray onto the acetate packaging and press the packaging onto the stamped panel. After the spray dried, press Pink Grapefruit VersaMagic Chalk Ink onto the acetate and spray it with more of the Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft spray and press that onto the stamped panel as well. Again, let dry.
Step 5: Press the Turquoise Gem VersaMagic Chalk Ink pad onto the acetate packaging and spray the ink with more of the Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray to create a watercolor consistency. Then use a thin paintbrush to paint the leaves and stems of the flowers turquoise. Let dry.
Step 6: Spray more of the Cantaloupe Fireworks! Spray onto the acetate packaging and use the spray to watercolor about half of the flowers yellow. Let dry.
Step 7: Spray more of the Angel Pink Fireworks! Spray onto the acetate packaging and then paint the rest of the flowers pink. Again let the spray dry.
Step 8: Spray Tangelo Fireworks! Spray onto the acetate packaging, and use it to paint the anthers and filaments (center parts) of the flowers. Let dry.
Step 9: Use an ink dauber to ink blend the edges of the panel with Pink Grapefruit VersaMagic Chalk Ink. (I ended up touching up the leaf on the bottom edge by painting a second layer of the Turquoise Gem VersaMagic Chalk Ink mixed with water to make sure the turquoise color wasn’t lost.)
Step 10: Press the Turquoise Gem VersaMagic Chalk Ink pad onto the acetate packaging and spray the ink with more of the Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft Spray to create a watercolor consistency a second time. (In my case, I had leftover from step 5, so I used that.)
Hold a paintbrush saturated with the turquoise watercolor parallel to the panel and tap it against your finger. Repeat if needed and let dry.
Step 11: Stamp a sentiment onto a piece of watercolor paper with Nocturne VersaFine Clair ink. Heat emboss with clear embossing powder and trim with scissors or a paper trimmer.
Ink blend around the edges of the stamped layer with more of the Canary VersaColor ink with an ink dauber.
Step 12: Use an ink dauber to ink blend the edges of the sentiment strip with Pink Grapefruit VersaMagic Chalk ink.
Step 13: Spray one part of the acetate packaging with Cantaloupe Fireworks! Spray and press Turquoise Gem VersaMagic onto another part of the acetate before spraying it with more Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Craft spray. Alternate pressing the sentiment strip into both colors of spray before splattering the strip with more of the turquoise ink. Let dry.
Step 14: Glue the panel onto an A2-sized white card base and attach the sentiment onto the card with some foam tape for dimension to finish the card.
Other • Altenew – Stamp – Extra Special stamp set • Altenew – Tape – Instant Dimension Foam Tape • Gina Marie Designs – Die – Pleated Lace Rectangles die set • The Ton Stamps – Stamp – Lily Fields • Clear embossing powder Scissors • Glue
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