On-Line Card Class: Heat Wave Day 3

I am so thrilled with what I learned day 3 of class.  We learned embossed resist technique.  I started with watercolor paper, pounced it with my powder bag, used a tiny star background stamp with VersaMark ink, sprinkled it with clear embossing powder, set it with a heat gun and bam there were clear stars all over the watercolor paper! Next I spread water over the entire card and used distress inks watered down with "Shimmer Spitz."  I then dried it completely, placed a piece of clean typing paper on top and went of it with a hot iron.  I lifted the typing paper and most of the embossing adhered to it.  I repeated this step until all of the embossing was gone.  Now I had watercolored panel with little stars where the embossing was.  Next I added the sentiment, Happy Birthday, using VersaMark black onyx ink and was able to repeat accurately with my Misti twice.  Again, I let it dry, testing with embossing powder to see if it stuck, and the sentiment was completely covered with powder (I used a brush to sweep it off), it took several tries before it did not stick.  Using my Misti and a cleaned off sentiment stamp, I off-set the stamp slightly to the left and below the black stamped sentiment.  Using white detail embossing powder and heat setting it, the sentiment revealed a shadow and I love the effect.  Below is the finished card front.

Embossed Resist Technique

On-Line Card Class: Heat Wave Day 2 Part 2

I am learning so much from this class.  Today I am going for the plaid look using embossing and stripes.  It took awhile to get into the groove of switching directions, pouncing before using VersaMark and trying to stamp a straight line (in the correct order).  Yikes, I'll only show you the last ones because I threw my horrible, miss-combobulated messes away!

Plaid Happy Birthday

Plaid Christmas Ca

On-Line Card Class Heat Wave: Day 2

Wow, love this class on embossing techniques!  I am also getting a head start on my Christmas Cards by trying the techniques with them.  I really like all the shimmer and shine on the cards.  In Day 2 we learned how to add details on our cards with embossing, it really makes a wonderful difference!  Below are just two of the cards I made following Jennifer McGuire's class video.  I will be adding more as I continue with Day 2 and 3 with more examples and my own spin on the techniques.  As always thanks for stopping by.

Adding Details with Embossing

Ornament Christmas Card

Ornament Christmas Card showing some of the Sparkle

Heat Wave On Line Card Class Day 1

Today's class was all about heat embossing using various powders, adhesive, mediums and techniques.  It was also about using the right tools and preparing the surface before you begin to reduce static cling.  Below is my card using Versa Mark, copper embossing powder and Wplus9 stamps.  Hope you like what you see, I still need some practice prepping the surface so I don't get the spattering of embossing powder.  Thanks for stopping by.

Embossing with Copper and Flowers