CASE-ing Tuesday Snowflake Kisses

Welcome to a bonus edition on Monday!

I wanted to play along with the CASE-ing Tuesday challenge #CTS532 casing the catalog page 55.

I’m playing with the Delicate Pines stamp, coordinating DSP and the Snowflake Kisses dies with Shaded Spruce ink and blends to colour my rhinestones. 

I created two using the double side of the Elegant Pine Snowflake DSP.

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

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Case-ing Tuesday #531

Here with another bonus edition on the blog.

Playing along with the Case-ing Tuesday challenge over on Facebook. Casing the adorable Gingerbread card. I decided to flip the sketch to landscape instead of portrait. 

I’m playing along with the Elegant Pine stamp set. I started out just choosing the paper from this suite during preorder but the more examples I saw I added the stamp set to my cart when they had the 15% off sale last week. I’ve used the Everyday Arches and a sentiment from the Greetings for You ephemera. I just love the warm tones of the paper! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Stampin’ 

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Technique Tuesday - Emboss Resist

For today’s edition of Technique Tuesday I am playing with the Emboss resist. I have chosen to play with my Prairie Grass stamp set as it’s perfect for showcasing this technique.

I am also playing along with the Case-Ing Tuesday #CT530 over on Facebook where we case a card from the catalog from Stampin’ Up! 

My colour palette was chosen from the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge #HSS472 of Pretty Peacock, Darling Duckling and Timid Tiger.

I love how gorgeous this technique works allowing that pop of white to shine through against the vibrant background. Perfect for an I’m here for you card! 

This sketch was a lot of fun to play with. There’s something extra therapeutic about tearing your pretty paper - it’s like a message of contradiction in the brain being faced from your childhood teachers saying that you don’t tear paper and now has been won by the adult brain saying go ahead I can do whatever I want now I’m an adult 🤣

Have you used paper tearing in your paper crafting design? 

If you haven’t done the Emboss Resist it’s one of the easier techniques that gives a lot of WOW factor. 

All you need is your stamp, white paper of coloured inks of choice plus a Versamark or other brand of sticky ink pad, clear embossing powder and a heat gun. A anti static powder is also handy as it prevents the powder from sticking to any fingerprint reside from handling your papers. I also keep a small paint brush with my embossing supplies for if the anti static powder wasn’t enough to delicately brush away stray powder I don’t want on the paper. 

So use your anti stick powder over the paper, stamp your image in versamark onto the paper, sprinkle with embossing powder and shake off excess. I love using a coffe filter to catch my excess to be able to easily pour back into my powder pot. Use the heat gun to set the powder. Make sure it’s all turned shiny and fully set. I usually heat from the back first so that it’s less likely to blow off my powder on me. Than I do a second time over the front.  Once your powder is set you can blend colour with sponge or brush or use a brayer to add colour over top of your image as desired and than use a paper towel to clean off the embossed areas to reveal your white pop of wow 🤩 than finish your card design! 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

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