Here's a card made with SU's "Snow Swirled" set. As soon as I saw this set, I knew I had to order it... it's just SO pretty! The color combo was inspired by some gorgeous holiday ribbon I had seen at Michael's, and I knew it would be perfect with these images (click to see larger):
The tree was stamped in Sage, and then I used my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to stamp the snowflake ornaments once more with gold pigment ink so I could heat emboss them. I then used my Chocolate marker to go over the flourish dots. After my image was complete, I cut it out and embossed the edges with one of my rectangle Nestabilities. I love my Nestabilities for centering around a previously stamped image... you're guaranteed a perfectly squared, centered image.
However... (and this may be old news to some, but I had never heard this tip before, so learn from my mistake!)
**BIG TIP** If you're planning on doing any heat embossing to any part of your image, it's best to use your Nesties to cut/emboss your card stock FIRST, and THEN use a Stamp-A-ma-Jig to center your focal image and stamp/emboss. I did it the other way and wasn't really thinking (hey... I was sorta distracted that day, LOL) and after running the heat embossed image and the Nestie die through my high pressure Cuttlebug, a lot of the gold EP cracked and flaked off. :P What a mess. I had to go back over the bare areas with my VersaMarker and reheat some more gold EP... you can tell in the photo which snowflakes were "repaired". LOL It looks pretty sloppy. Anyway, when heat embossing your image, Nestie FIRST, then heat emboss!
By the way... I apologize for locking everyone out all day yesterday! LOL I closed down my blog so I could work on publishing some complicated entries to see how they would look without having to worry about anyone else seeing them just yet, and forgot to change my settings back once I was done. DOH! So sorry about that... thanks for letting me know! And for your patience. :)
Have a great day.
PAPER - Stampin' Up! (Sage, Chocolate, Vanilla... gold is unknown
STAMPS - Stampin' Up! "Snow Swirled"
INK - Stampin' Up! (Sage, Chocolate [marker],) and Colorbox gold pigment
MISC - Nestabilities (LG rectangles), Stamp-A-Ma-Jig, Perfect Layers, Ranger gold EP, heat tool, SU! Chocolate satin ribbon (last year's catty), and pop dots
12 comments:
Lisa,
This is gorgeous regardless of your oops.
I'm with Tina on this one! Gorgeous card... Love the sage and chocolate combo!
Beautiful! Can't tell if there are any mistakes.
This card is GORGEOUS, Lisa. So rich & classic. I don't think I've seen a more beautiful card on any rack at Hallmark.
This is so elegant!!! Love the colour combo and the gold is such a nice classy detail!!
Awesome!!
That shows serious talent.
Hi, Lisa! Love your card. And thanks for sharing that tip! Sometimes we all have days like that!
I learned the hard way not to clean your clear alphabet stamps in the sink without a drain trap! Ack! Hubby had to take apart the drain to save an R! :-)
That is gorgeous, I just adore that tree stamp.
This is beautiful. So many wonderful details. Thanks for the tip about the nesties. I wouldn't have thought of that and probably would have done the same thing.
You know the artist always sees his or her errors as huge and glaring. Love this card. That stamp is really sweet - I can see why you purchased it and I love how you dotted the flourish - perfect color to enhance the image. LOVE IT!
Holy Cow, Lisa. That card is just stunning. Amazing! Great and different color combo, too!
Keri
Beautiful card. So incredibly elegant!
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