Do you play with your crafting goodies and then do nothing with them? I do this experimenting a lot with distress inks and stamping...and then after playtime they seem just bits of coloured card with no where to go! So, what to do with them???? I save them for?!?!?. And, I admit I have a box full just waiting there.....sometimes I look in the box take them out, and then....put them back. However, today when I was thinking I must start a card for a vey special person in my life who has a birthday this week, and looking for inspiration - but finding none..out came my box of bits...and PING...I found something...
This was a scrap left from a gone wrong card, which I'd coloured with various distress inks and stamped with an image from Sheena Douglas' Birds and Swirls set (Creative Expressions). The Labels 4 Nestabilies die may a great shape round the stamping. So......
Sandwich for embossing:
A / die with card inside cut side up / tan mat / 2 shims (check your machine you may only need 1) / 2 B plates
To lift the edges of the die cut, I inked with DI's and then emboss with a clear embossing powder. The sentiment, which I also embossed, is from the same set of stamps.
This is one piece of card that I'm pleased I didn't throw away!
Now all I have to do is finish my card.
See you tomorrow at WOYWW.
4 comments:
That certainly must be a special someone with that saying. What a beautiful start to your card.
Fab result Ikki. The 'and now what' part of the nking spritzing thing is sort of why I don't do it... I think!
That is lovely Ikki. Look forward to seeing the completed card.
Just one tip I've picked up along the way and thought I'd pass on. I don't use shims in my embossing. I use double thickness tan mat (I bought a 12x12 sheet and cut myself several different sizes). It's more forgiving than card shims and lessens the worry about whether you've got the right thickness or not.
A truly beautiful work of art for your card Ikki. Love the heartfelt sentiment - it fits the image perfectly.
Sylvia xx
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