Embossing Magic - Card Tutorial

Hello crafty peeps,

Let me start by congratulating the winners of the Sparkle and Shine challenge. We thank all of you who participated and appreciate the time and love you put into your work and are ever so happy and grateful that you share your projects with us.

Hope to see you all play along with this months challenge

Embossing Magic

Click here to read challenge guidelines and here for more about this months challenge.

My first exposure to heat embossing was in a craft fair demonstration and my eyes literally popped when the powder melted.... as if by magic. Embossing is a very handy technique that can be used in many ways, which the DT will share throughout this month. My project this time is a trio of autumn coloured cards along with a pictorial.

The pictorial below is for the card titled 'grateful'. The other two cards have been made using the same techniques.

1. Glue strips of tissue onto the sides of a piece of watercolour paper. Spread a thin layer of gesso, remove excess gesso with a dry baby wipe. Dry.
2. On the craft mat, dribble a few drops of mist, give a light spray of water and swipe the edge of the paper over it. Dry.
3. Repeat with another colour. I've used a few shades of yellow and orange mists.
4. Stamp using a Kaisercraft texture stamp using archival ink. Archival ink is a must have for mixed media stamping. The ink is waterproof and wont smudge and react with water and mists.

5. Prepare another piece of watercolour paper using the steps 2-4.Additionally, spray a darker orange/red mist through stencil.

6. Cut out leaves and words using the paper prepared on the Silhouette Cameo.

At this stage, I wanted to add some dimension on the base and leaves and embossing powder seemed the best option to keep a clean look and infusing some additional colour and texture. On this scrap paper you can see the red glitter embossing powder shining after heat setting. There is very subtle difference between the black and clear powders.

7. Using versamark watermark pad, stamp onto black cardstock. Pour black embossing powder in the middle and clear powder on the sides. Heat set with a heat gun till the powder melts.

8. Similarly, emboss the leaves with gold and red embossing powders.

9. Finally, mat all the layers and glue the word grateful and leaves using Zig fine tip glue pen.

Using the same techniques, these two variations were prepared.

Tip: For tiny, shiny splatters, dip a small brush in undiluted acrylic paint, hold it a few inches asay from the paper and tap it with a pen. As the paint is not watery, you will need to tap a bit harder for shiny droplets. The camera hasnt captured the glitter from the pearl acrylic on these cards. 

That is it from me today. If you've never tried embossing before, Lulupu has a new range of embossing powders available in the store.

Supplies from the store
Embossing Powder Black Glitter 1oz
Embossing Powder Clear 1oz
Heat It Craft Tool Europeon Version

Fine Tip - Zig 2-Way Glue Pen
Heidi Swapp Silicone Craft Mat 18"X24"
Scor-Tape 5"X27yd
Embossing Powder Red Glitter 1oz
Embossing Powder Gold Glitter 1oz
VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad 1
Little Lindy- CHRISTMAS

Coffee Archival Ink

Silhouette Cameo2 Electonic Cutter

Sparkle and Shine - Coffee Cards

Hello mateys,

How has the week been progressing for you? Its getting warmer here in Sydney, spring is in the air and in my mood. This month Lulupu's challenge for you is to create a project with

Sparkle and Shine

There are so many products that you can use to add some shine to your projects - the good old rhinestone, sugar dots, more trendy sequins, glitter. Don't forget Heidi Swap colour shine mists, ranger perfect pearls, wink of Stella..... the list goes on.

 

Today I want to share 3 cards with you all, mixed media style of course. All of them are made with Prima Coffee Break papers, wood embellishments, stamps and medium.

The background was prepared using strips of torn paper, gesso, a bit of lace, stencilling using the prima bubble stencil and finally a sticker from the same collection. Watercolours were added after that and finally when everything was dry, mix glass glitter with gel medium and apply. Gel medium dries clear, meaning you can see the paint and layers underneath giving a very interesting effect.

For this card, start by applying 3d gel through prima stencil, before the gel dries, sprinkle glitter over it. You can combine two or more glitters too for more depth. Allow to dry completely, else the glitter will stick to your fingers and come off. Places where the glitter didn't stick, the 3d gel medium gives a see through embossed kind of effect.

My final card is very simple. Ive used the traditional rhinestone to add colour to an otherwise coffee coloured card.

The Lulupu store is open again and brimming with new supplies. Have a browse through and you may get more ideas of products that sparkle and shine to use in you creation.

Supplies from the Lulupu Store:
FaberCastell Mix & Match Color Gelatos Set Tropical 4pc
Bubbles Elementals Stencil 6.5"X10.25"
Archival Dye Ink - Jet Black
Broken China Distress Ink Pad
Coffee Archival Ink
Coffee Break Paper Pad 6"X6" 30/Pkg
Martha Stewart Glitter Tinsel Iridescent 12pc
Coffee Break 3D Stickers



 

CAS Cards - Mixed Media style

Hello crafty friends,

How are you all today?

Its mid month and the design team have revealed their interpretations of this months challenge - Anything but square or rectangle. You can read more about the challenge here.
Have you linked your creation yet?

Through the rest of this month, the team has decided to showcase CAS cards. CAS stands for Clean and Simple. This means a card with lots of empty space, minimal layers or embellishments, in other words uncluttered.

CAS is definitely out of my comfort zone, but once I started, found it hard to stop. Today, I'm sharing three cards from the lot I made, hopefully managed to find a balance between CAS design and my love for mixed media art.

 

For all my cards, the background was created by using gesso + white sand texture through a stencil. Gesso ensures that the texture paste gets a bright white color on drying to match the white card stock.  

 On this one, as there is a contrast already between the texture paste and kraft card stock, no paints were needed, just some embellishments. 

On this card, the tiniest amount of watercolors were used through a waterbrush to infuse some color before embellishing with gold stars, title and vellum snowflakes.

 

I usually make a few card bases together and experiment with different techniques and color combinations. One such piece of card stock was used to cut the three Christmas trees and another such piece was used to mat the card on.The words have been heat embossed with gold embossing powder after stamping with versamark watermark stamp pad.

Thank you for visiting us today. 

Don't forget to check back in a couple of days for more CAS card creations from the rest of the team.

Cheers,

Kripa

Products used from the Lulupu store:

Essentials - Mr. Huey's Watercolor Set

Koi Water Brushes Medium

Gold Super Fine Embossing Powder 1oz Jar

Krafty Smooth Value Pack Cardstock 8.5"X11" 25/Pkg

VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad 1

Gesso - Sakura Acrylic Tube

Heat It Craft Tool Europeon Version

 

A twist on the traditional brush stroke

Hello creative friends,

We have around 30 fabulous watercolour cards already linked up for this month's challenge. There is still time to dust out your distress inks / gelato / paints / watercolour pencil, or whatever watercolour medium you fancy and join the fun. I hope you haven't missed out on the fabulous techniques the DT shared this month.

I for one couldn't get enough of paint and decided to experiment a little more:

Acrylic paint + texture paste = thicker brush strokes. I didn't even mix the paint and paste completely. Load a flat brush with the above and just go swipe, swipe, swipe. Acrylic dries pretty quickly, so the colours wont disappear into each other but give a beautiful blended depth.

I got a little more bold after this and mixed paint with sand texture this time. Three big, bold strokes and a little bit of stamping and this card was ready.

Here is a panel without and mediums added : you can see the paint doesn't have much thickness.

You can pre-order texture paste, sand texture or any other products on your wish list by emailing hello@lulupu.com

Happy creating, see you all soon!

Cheers,

Kripa

Supplies from the store:

Modelling Paste - Sakura Acrylic Tube

Silhouette Cameo2 Electonic Cutter

Pastels - DieCuts Stacks Cardstock 6"x 6"

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Challenge #43- Inspired by Mood Board

Hello everyone!

It's Hussena here bringing you a brand new challenge for this fortnight which is -Anything goes with TWO or more patterned papers!

Here's a look at the Mood Board first :

Challenge # 43

Anything goes with 2 or more patterned papers.

{ General Guidelines HERE }

Challenge rules

1. You have to use TWO or more patterned papers to create a paper based project. 

2. You can create anything be it cards, layouts, albums, canvases, tags etc but please make sure it is a paper based craft project only. The possibilities are endless for this challenge!

3.  TWIST - You can be inspired by the colours or the images in the mood board. You don't have to strictly follow the colours but please make sure that you mention in your post what inspired you from the mood board and how you interpreted it in your project.

4. You have time until 15 December 2014, 11:55 PM IST to submit your projects. 

This is what the Winner of this challenge will take home. :D

Fern & Forest Girl Paper Pad 6"X6" 24/Sheets

And, here's a look at my project for this challenge. I have made a card inspired by the above Mood Board :

The base of my card has been made using three different patterned papers. The light pink striped pattern paper is from Graphic 45, followed by the blue one from Prima Marketing Cigar Box paper pad and finally the alpha one from Prima Marketing Coffee Break Paper pad.

The small butterflies were paper pieced from Prima Marketing Forever Green paper pad. For the base of my floral arrangement, I have used a Prima Marketing Doily Die #1 and popped it up on foam dots and colored with Distress ink- Tattered Rose.

 I have created a shabby-chic card so to create the look, I have distressed all the papers using a paper distressing tool and have inked all the edges of the papers with Distress ink- Tattered Rose. The flowers are all from my stash and I have Gesso-ed the edges of the flowers using Heidi Swapp Color Shine- Tropicana Teal Mist mixed with Gesso and painted using a paint brush to give that light blue colour to the flowers. The Gesso gives the flower a very nice texture and colour!

The sentiment has been stamped and paper-pieced and popped up on foam dots to give that raised look. I have used a lot of rhinestones to mimic the inspiration from the mood board.

I was inspired by the striped umbrella and the pink flowers on the mood board and all the colours too and tried to incorporate in my card through the floral arrangement and my card base!

I hope you like my inspirational card. Please do join us in this challenge by linking up your creations below in the link tool. Really looking forward to seeing all your beautiful work!

Supplies used from www.lulupu.com 

Fiskars Paper Trimmer Personal SureCut 12"	Martha Stewart Tools Scoring Board 0 Reviews | Write a review	White Heavy Gesso 8.5oz	Coffee Break Paper Pad A4 30/Pkg	Cigar Box Secrets Prima Marketing Paper Pad 6"X6" 30/Pkg	Forever Green Prima Marketing Paper Pad 6"X6" 30/Pkg
Incredible	Doily #3 Scallop 4" Purple Metal Die	Little Lindy- HOTTIE PATOTTIE	TropicanaTeal Color Shine 2oz	Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool	Inkssentials Ink Blending Foam 10/Pkg
Tattered Rose Distress Ink Pad	Archival Dye Ink - Jet Black	Comfort Craft Distressing Tool	Heat It Craft Tool Europeon Version	Kushgrip Non-Stick Micro Serrated Scissors 7	2 Mini Misters Set
Sponge Dauber Pack	Imaginisce Score n' Pierce	Craft Collection 3-D Foam Tabs Assorted Pack	Glue Dots

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Hope you all will play along our challenge. Please read the challenge guidelines before entering your project. It's very disheartening when we have to disqualify entries because they have not followed the rules. Have a nice day everyone!

Welcome Baby - Card

Hello crafters!

This is Hussena here to share my inspiration card for our current challenge- Kids Play. I have gone with a new born baby card and kept my sentiment general so that this card would work both for a baby girl or a baby boy.

I have created a layered, embossed card on a kraft color base and used some pretty gold glitter tape to add that bit of shine to my project. The leaves are cut from that glitter tape. What I did was, I adhered the tape on a plain white cardstock and then ran it through my Big Shot with the leaf die. Worked like magic :D

 A close-up of the flower clicked in natural daylight. Looks gorgeous in real life!

I have dry embossed the side panel of the card on the right side and sponged in white pigment ink over it to highlight the embossed design and on the left side, I have stuck a DCWV dotted pattern paper and die-cut the flower using watercolor paper and colored it with Peacock Feathers Distress ink by heavily spraying it with water. Even the side die-cut lace has been colored using  Peacock Feathers Distress ink.

The baby pram is stamped, die-cut and the sentiment has been heat-embossed using Ranger Super Fine Gold embossing powder.

That's it from me. Hope you like my card and feel inspired to play along our challenge this fortnight. 

Supplies used from www.lulupu.com 

Fiskars Paper Trimmer Personal SureCut 12"	Martha Stewart Tools Scoring Board 0 Reviews | Write a review	Krafty Smooth Value Pack Cardstock	Glitter Light Gold Japanese Washi Tape
Gold Super Fine Embossing Powder 1oz Jar	Inkssentials Ink Blending Tool	Inkssentials Ink Blending Foam 10/Pkg	VersaMark Watermark Stamp Pad
Vintage Photo Distress Ink Pad	Peacock Feathers Distress Inkpad	Archival Dye Ink - Jet Black	Craft Collection 3-D Foam Tabs Assorted Pack
Terrifically Tacky Tape .25"x5 Yds	2 Mini Misters Set	Kushgrip Non-Stick Micro Serrated Scissors 7	Heat It Craft Tool Europeon Version
Imaginisce Score n' Pierce

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