Please welcome our August guest designer ...........
I started cardmaking in 2006, at a Stampin' Up! Party and have
never looked back. I started my blog, MASKerade in 2012 to share my work
and become part of this amazing community! I live in Toronto, Canada, with
my husband and 2 teenaged children. In 2017, I started making quick tutorial
videos which are on my YouTube channel.
I love clean, graphic design with bold colours and lots of white space. My
favourite cards are the ones where stamps are used in unexpected ways to create
something fun!
I'm thrilled to be a Creative Guest this month!
Hello! It's Ardyth here from MASKerade
and I'm thrilled to be a Creative Guest for the month of August!
Heat embossing is a magical part of cardmaking - remember
how amazed you were when you first saw the powder melt and transform? I
certainly do, and 12 years later, I still get that feeling every time I pull
out my heat gun!
Today I used a rainbow of embossing glitters and a simple
technique to create the focal point of my otherwise clean-and-simple birthday
card.
One of the amazing things about embossing powders is that
they don't stick to each other. So if you put powder on one area that's been
coated with embossing ink, you can put the next colour down right beside it,
and they will not mix. For my card, I put small amounts of each powder onto my
inked-up cardstock strip and only melted them once the whole strip was coated.
To emboss my letters, I created a handle by applying
temporary adhsive to a thin strip of cardstock. This lets me sprinkle the
powder and heat all the letters at once, and keeps my fingers far away from the
heat.
Another way to keep my fingers cool is to lay the piece I'm
heating into the lid of an old shoe box. I have lined mine with aluminum foil
and I think that it helps reduce warping, by reflecting heat up into the back
of the area I'm heating. That's my theory, anyway! ;-)
I've created a video showing my process for making this
sparkly card - I hope you enjoy it!
https://youtu.be/qayt8mlgmGc
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What a beautiful bright strip of glitteriness, not sure this is a word but it sums it up perfectly, and love the little stars and the large die cut sentiment across it with the stamped part underneath looks great Ardyth. x
ReplyDeleteThank you! This card was so much fun to make!
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