Stacked Die Cuts or Faux Embossing

Hello and Welcome

It's my turn to host the TLC Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers.

Every week there is a new and fun technique to try.  

I chose a simple one that everyone could play along with as most would likely have all the needed supplies to do the challenge.

So I'm calling my challenge:

Stacked Die Cuts or Faux Embossing

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began by looking through my dies and found these flowers and leaves.  Chose some fairly simple dies for this project.
• Next, I die cut each flower three times, stacked and glued them together.
• I repeated that process until I had 5 stacked flowers for my card front.  I did the same with the leaves.
• I positioned the flowers and the leaves on my card base that was 3 3/4 x 5" and when I was happy with the spacing, I glued them all down into place. NOTE: some of the flowers hung over my card front panel and had to be trimmed a bit.
• To add some colour to the panel, I pressed some Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed and some Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink onto a piece of acetate and sprayed with water to dilute it.  I press the panel directly into the wet ink to add the colour.  There were still a lot of white areas, so I added some more of the leftover ink using a wet paintbrush.
• While the panel dried, I die cut the 'Celebrate' sentiment 3 times, glued them together and added colour in the same way as I did on the panel.  It was a bit lost when I held it over the panel, so I glued a white die cut offset behind it to make it be more visible.
• When all was dry, I splattered the panel with my white Posca pen and added dots to the flower centers.
• I glued the panel onto a heavy white card base, then glued the sentiment over that.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Little Red Wagon- SENTIMENT AS MAIN FOCUS

Alphabet Challenge- 'D' FOR DIE CUTS

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- DOX

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- die cuts (unknown, gifted to me); die cutting machine,

white Posca pen; Nuvo glue; Celebrate die (MFT) 

Spinner Ink Background Tutorial

Hello and Welcome

I have the pleasure of writing a tutorial for Splitcoast Stampers called

Spinner Ink Background

You may remember the backgrounds I made using the Salad Spinner?

You can see my other cards HERE, HERE and HERE

Here is the link to my Splitcoast Stampers Tutorial:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/spinnerinkbackground

So here's what I did to create this card.

• I used my salad spinner to create the background on a piece of Yupo paper using my Alcohol inks. See the tutorial for all the details.
• I used the Diagonal Stitched Plaid Die to add interest to the inked background.
• I splattered using my black Posca pen...I like a little bit of black as an accent.  I set that aside to dry.
• I found a piece of paper I had inked in similar colours in my stash and die cut the sentiment from Simon Says using that.  It is a 2 piece die.  After I cut out the letters, I glued it onto the white outline piece of the die.
• I glued the inked panel onto a white card base, then foam taped the sentiment over the background.

Thanks a lot for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Alcohol ink (Ranger)

Paper- white cardstock (Scribes Nook, Waterloo, Ont.); Yupo paper (Amazon)

Accessories and Tools- rubbing alcohol, die- SSS, Salad spinner, 

Spellbinder Platinum die cutting machine, Posca paint pen, 

Diagonal Stitched die (Pinkfresh Studio)