Hello, it's Verity with another video and blog post as a Creative team member for WOW! I have several ways
to use silhouette heat embossing on your cards with two very easy techniques
and one slightly more advanced, you'll find one that suits your style.
Silhouette heat embossing allows your heat embossing to take centre stage in
your paper crafting and can compliment any occasion.
Silhouette heat embossing Video Tutorial:
Silhouette heat embossing written tutorial:
Silhouette heat embossing with stencils
To start off the first technique uses stencils to create the silhouette heat embossing. For this card, we're using the Altenew Exotic tulip mask stencil. Mask stencils are perfect for this technique as they've got large negative spaces to create the silhouette.
Tape the
stencil down on top of some watercolour cardstock and cover over the
other areas of the stencil as you only need the large tulip flower head. Next,
using WOW! Clear ultra slow dry embossing ink pad, push the pad down
over the negative area to transfer ink onto the card.
After removing the
stencil, cover this in Oasis embossing powder, which is a gorgeous
strong bright teal colour. Then using the dual-speed heat gun on setting two, heat set the powder. This masked
stencil also allows you to add onto the stem to the flower. As the stem is much thinner, use a sponge dauber by pressing the dauber into the pad and the
sponger ink over the stem. This was covered with Metallic Platinum powder and
heat set.
To create the
background, smoosh ink onto a non-porous surface and sprtiz with water. The ink used here were Juniper
Mist and All that Jazz from Catherine Pooler Designs. Next, take the
card and smoosh it into the ink
Silhouette heat embossing with simple stamping
For the second technique, we are using simple stamping to create the silhouette. When using
stamps for silhouettes, you need to look for solid images and the Altenew Leaf Cluster stamp set is great for this.
Position of the leaves over a white card panel and close the door of the Misti to pick up the stamps. Stamp the images ink a dark in - using Juniper Mist again. And once you have good coverage, you need to leave the stamps
and card panel in the same position.
Clean off the stamps
to remove any ink. Next, ink up the stamps up again but
with your ultra slow drying embossing ink from WOW. As you've not moved the card
panel or the stamps, you can close your Misti door and stamp directly over the
stamped leaves.
Cover this with clear gloss embossing powder, and heat set it with your dual speed heat gun. This will give you a love
glossy finish but the colour of the ink will shine through as it is a clear
powder.
To add more drama to
the background, you can now apply ink around the edges with a blending tool as
the embossing will resist the ink colour. Using All that Jazz first, soften the colour up as you move in towards the middle. Next, go in with
Juniper Mist to darken up the edges.
Silhouette heat embossing with double stamping
For the last technique, we're using double stamping for the silhouette heat embossing. When you wish to do this technique you need to look for stamps where the outline of the photopolymer mimics that of the stamped imaged. Some stamps will not have the same shape as the actual stamped image.
Using the flower from the Mama Elephant Pretty Lovely stamp set, position this
with the normal stamp side of the stamp facing upwards, so positioning
it the wrong side down on the cardstock. Next, close the Misti door to pick
up the stamp then cover the back of the stamp which is now accessible with
clear ultra slow drying embossing ink.
When you close the
Misti to stamp, the ink from the back of the stamp transfers to the paper. This
was then covered with Oceanic embossing powder, a gorgeous dark blue teal and
heat set. As you can see, we now have a silhouette of the flower heat embossed,
and not the lines of the flower stamp.
However, it looks a
little plain here and may not be obvious what it is meant to be. So there is a
way to add the stamping over the top - as we stamp the back of the stamp we
need to stamp the mirror image of the flower. Position the card back into the Misti
and position the stamp back over the heat embossing so the back of the stamp is
lying onto the heat embossing.
For the next step
you need a solid block stamp - My Favourite Things have a mirror image stamp block that is great for this. Position the mirror
image stamp over the silhouette and close the door so this Misti picks this
stamp up. Now apply ink to the flower but to prevent getting extra ink
on the card panel, do this off to one side. You need to apply the ink to the lined side of the stamp, the right side of the stamp.
With the ink applied, put the stamp back over the silhouette as you did previously with the back of
the stamp facing downwards and close the door. The ink from the flower stamp
will now transfer onto the mirror image stamp. Open up the Misti again to remove
the flower stamp and close the door again to transfer the ink from the mirror
image stamp to on top of the heat
embossing.
This was covered in
Metallic Platinum and then heat set and as you can see the line image of the
flower now sits perfectly in the silhouette and shines beautifully.
Finishing the cards
For the stencil
card, I mentioned I die cut a circle from the background and wanted to add a
circle frame over the top. To step the frame up, I smooshed ink onto the circle
and covered this with metallic platinum sparkle which has glitter in it.
A tip for heat
embossing Embossing Glitters is to heat from underneath. This allows the powder
to melt and trap the glitter in it. If you heat from above you can start to
blow the glitter off before the powder has had a chance to melt.
The double embossed
silhouette was adhered to a white card and a white die cut frame which was
scored at 1/4 horizontally was foam mounted over the top.
All three cards were
finished off with a white heat embossed the sentiment and a selection of the Nuvo
drops were added in a range of colours.
Silhouette heat embossing Supplies:
Other supplies used:
Stamps used: Leaf Clusters (Altenew), Pretty Lovely (Mama Elephant)
Stencils: Exotic Tulips mask stencil (Altenew)
Inks: All That Jazz, Juniper Mist, BlackJack (Catherine Pooler Designs)
Till next week,
Verity
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Three beautiful cards Verity but my favourite is the dramatic look of the second with the pretty black silhouette glossy leaves and the two wonderful shades of blue ink blending into the background. x
ReplyDeleteThanks Pat, yes that one is my favourite one too!
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