Hello! This is Alison Heikkila. My second video for Imagine this month once again focus on dies and how to use them creatively with inks. We’re making a pretty floral encouragement card, and I hope it gives you some ideas on how to use your dies and inks together.
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Skill Level: Intermediate Time to Complete: 20-30 minutes
I hope this inspires you to make stamps out of your dies. And don’t forget to try double-dipping into embossing powder! The effect is so pretty. Thanks so much for stopping by. Have an inspiring day!
In today’s blog post, I will show you how to incorporate sprays and markers to change or enhance the color of colored cardstock to help you stretch your supplies.
Skill: Advanced Time: 2 hours
Directions:
Step 1: Color a piece of teal or green patterned paper with green markers–College Ivy Memento marker and Emerald Fabrico marker.
Step 2: Die cut the colored patterned paper to form the leaves of the flower die cut. Optional step: Spray the colored patterned paper with Sparkle Shimmer Spray.
Step 3: Spray a die cut panel of watercolor paper with Angel Pink and Cantaloupe Fireworks! Sprays. After it dried, I sprayed both sprays again. This combination of the two colors almost achieved the peach fuzz color.
Step 4: Using a piece of peach cardstock, die cut the small flowers for the floral die cut three times.
Step 5: Stamp Pink Shimmer Delicata ink onto the flowers using a stamp. (On the card, you can see a little shine on the flowers, but it ins’t visible in pictures.)
Step 6: Add Pink Shimmer and Gold Glitz Delicata Ink onto parts of a large background stamp. Make sure to leave parts of the stamp uninked (such as the lower left corner of the stamp). Optional step: Add holographic embossing powder onto the stamped image.
Step 7: Use Tangelo and Morocco Memento markers to color a smaller stamp and repeatedly stamp card base to add texture.
Step 8: Die cut the main sentiment out of more of the peach colored cardstock and the shadow die out of some peach patterned paper. Spray the sentiment with Sparkle Sheer Shimmer spray and the shadow paper with Cantaloupe and Angel Pink Fireworks! sprays. After the sprays dry, glue the two layers together.
Step 9: Glue the floral die cut pieces together.
Step 10: Create the matte layer of the card by die cutting a piece of orange patterned paper and then spraying it with more of the Cantaloupe and Angel Pink Fireworks! Sprays and Sparkle Sheer Shimmer spray to mute the bold orange color.
Step 11: Glue the floral die cut and the sentiment onto the upper card base. Trim off the right edge of the sentiment so that it doesn’t overhang the upper card panel. Then glue the matte (orange) panel behind the upper panel.
Step 12: Stamp the sub sentiments with by coloring them again with more Morocco Memento marker. (The sub sentiments came in 3 parts “I am,” “you are” and “going through this.” Since the last sentiment wouldn’t fit on the card without a little help, I performed “stamp surgery” where the stamp was cut before stamping to create two smaller stamps. If you are uncomfortable with this, you can mask part of the stamp and stamp the sentiment a couple of times if you are trying to create something similar.)
Step 13: Glue the card panel onto an A2-sized white card base and then glue a few rhinestones around the flowers and the sentiment.
– I love it when I can incorporate everyday items from around the house in my craft room. Today we are paying with tin foil…aluminum foil…kitchen foil…whatever you might call it…We are going to repurpose basic tin foil into faux metal panels, emboss them with embossing folders and see which Imagine products will adhere to the foil to create that beautiful faux metal look. Then we will make a couple of beautiful cards
~Greetings! Alison Heikkila here. Today I have my latest video for Imagine, and I am making it part of my Halloween series. I broke out the Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray again (I love that stuff!) and I experimented with a technique idea I had. Did it work? You’ll have to watch the video to find out!
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Skill Level: Intermediate Time to Complete: 30-40 minutes
Hello friends! This is Linh (or LV Handcrafted on all the socials). In today’s video I’m showing two techniques for creating background panels that you can either cut down or die cut from! One technique features the ever-so-popular ink “smooshing” and the other features creating monoprinting with a gel plate! These techniques are fast and easy to make multiples of if you ever need to make the same card en mass. I made a set of 6 Artist Trading Cards (ATC) using one panel for the background and the monoprint for die-cutting.
Hello friends! This is Linh (or LV Handcrafted on all the socials). Today I’m playing with Fireworks! I start off by using what would normally be used to create a shaped 3D flower and I cut it out of a scrap piece of cardstock to use as a stencil. I lined that over black cardstock and sprayed the Grape Jelly Fireworks! Then I rotated the flower stencil to offset the petals. I sprayed the Lulu Lavendar Fireworks! And without shifting the stencil, I sprayed a bit of the Lilac Posies. What’s fabulous about these Fireworks! sprays is they are opaque and as you can see are gorgeous even on black cardstock. They have a beautiful shimmer and shine!
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