Hello Friends!
Today I have a card for you that’s clean and simple, shimmers and shines, and only takes about 10 minutes to put together.
I started with the dimensional tree cut from Very Vanilla cardstock with the “In The Woods Dies”. I then painted the tree gold with shimmer paint, only to realize that Stampin’ Up no longer sells the gold shimmer paint. However, it dawned on me that the shimmer paint, with it’s brush strokes, actually looked a lot like the Brushed Metallic gold cardstock. So, if you don’t have gold shimmer paint, the Brushed Metallic Cardstock is a very good alternative. That’s actually what I used for the scalloped mat behind the sentiment and they match quite nicely! I used Toile Tidings DSP which I love for its classic Christmas appeal in Real Red and Garden Green – just FYI – it’s ON SALE NOW! (SEE BELOW)
I was afraid the sentiment may get lost on the DSP (Designer Series Paper) design, so I used my Stamparatus to first stamp the sentiment in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, and then wiped the black ink from the stamp without removing the stamp from the Stamparatus. I then simply inked the stamp in Versamark, stamped over the first black image, sprinkled clear embossing powder over the Versamark and heat set it. This gave me a nice, glossy, dark, slightly raised, and definitely more prominent sentiment on the patterned DSP.
In this same manner, you can have any color of embossed image. Just stamp your image in whatever color of ink you wish and stamp over it in Versamark, then use clear embossing powder. Of course, a stamp positioning tool, such as the Stamparatus, is a MUST for this type of stamping! There are other stamp positioning tools on the market, but the Stamparatus beats it’s competitors hands down!
In the designing stages of the Stamparatus, Stampin’ Up gathered a handful of demonstrators as collaborators to act as a “think tank” in order to make it the best possible tool out there for it’s intended purpose. I’m proud to tell you, my sister, Krista Thomas, of RegalStamping.com, was part of that design team. They did a fantastic job in the design, if I do say so myself! But, don’t take my word for it – give it a try! I know you’ll love it!
LET’S GET INKY!
Materials:
Stamp Sets Used:
- For Unto Us
Metal Dies:
- In The Woods
- Layering Circles
Paper:
- Toile Tidings Designer Series Paper (red stripes – 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″) (green stripes 5 3/8″ x 3/4″) ( green scene 3″ x 3″ to crop circle from)
- Brushed Metallic Cardstock (tree 3 1/2″ x 2 1/4″ piece) & (scalloped circle 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″)
- Very Vanilla Cardstock (card base) 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ – fold in half at 4 1/4″
- For card inside: Very Vanilla- 4 3/4″ x 3 7/8″; Red Striped Toile Tidings DSP 5 3/8″ x 4 1/8″; Green Striped Toile Tidings DSP 5 3/8″ x 1/2″
Ink:
- Memento Tuxedo Black
- Versamark
Accessories:
- Clear Embossing Powder & Heat Tool
- Wonder Of The Season Ribbon Combo Pack (Gold cord)
- Wonderful Gems
- STAMPARATUS
Putting It Together:
- Adhere the green striped Toile Tidings DSP to the bottom of the red striped Toile Tidings Mat, leaving about 1/4″ of the red showing at the bottom.
- Crop the tree from Brushed Metallic CS using the In The Woods Dies.
- Crop the scalloped circle using the largest of the scalloped circle dies in Layering Circles Dies, from Brushed Metallic CS.
- Crop the circle for the sentiment using the second largest “plain” circle die from Layering Circles Dies, from the green “scene” Toile Tidings DSP.
- Place the cropped circle in the Stamparatus (make sure “scene” is upright and straight).
- Lay the sentiment stamp in the center of the circle and close the “lid” to pick up the stamp.
- Ink stamp with Tuxedo Black ink and close “lid” to stamp.
- Open Stamparatus and use rag or shammy to wipe black ink from stamp.
- Re-ink the stamp with Versamark and close “lid” to stamp over the previous black ink.
- Remove circle from Stamparatus and sprinkle clear embossing powder over stamped image, tapping off extra embossing powder.
- Heat set using Heat Tool.
- Adhere stamped circle to scalloped brushed metallic mat.
- Adhere that to the right-top side of the red-striped mat.
- Wrap a piece of gold cord across the front of the mat toward the bottom edge of the green striped piece, and adhere ends of cord to back using tape.
- Tie a small bow using gold cord and adhere to front using a mini glue dot.
- Adhere the tree to left side of card front and lift the “boughs” to create dimension.
- Use a red “Wonderful Gem” to top the tree.
- For the inside, adhere red-striped DSP to inside card base.
- Stamp sentiments from For Unto Us in Red Red to Very Vanilla panel.
- Adhere green-striped DSP to bottom edge of Very Vanilla panel.
- Adhere Very Vanilla sentiment panel to red-striped DSP.
- DONE!
Just a quick reminder that Stampin’ Up has a selection of DSP (Designer Series Paper) ON SALE NOW! Through the month of October only, some DSP is marked down 15%! I’ll put a link to all those that are on sale down below, along with the products that I used today.
I want to thank you again for spending a little bit of your day here with me!
I hope you’re settling happily into autumn weather, and anticipating the holiday season which will be upon us before we know it!
Until next time,
I hope you get INKY today!
Janet
These are the Designer Series Papers that are on sale right now! Unfortunately, my link-list below doesn’t reflect the sale prices, however, if you click on the link for each one, it will take you to my online store and the sale price will be reflected there. All of the sets below are currently on sale for $9.78, with the exception of the In Good Taste DSP which is on sale for $17.85 (it’s a larger pack).
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