Hello and welcome, it's Angie here today with 2 very easy yet beautiful cards you can create using products from the newest 2025 Happy Birthday Release! Today I am using these supplies:
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The look you get with this technique reminds me of several Japanese vases my mom had from the 1950's when we came back from my father's being stationed in Okinawa, Japan. She kept these beautiful vases on her dresser in her bedroom. I believe they were called Wedgewood Blue Jasperware, you can Google that and see pictures of them.
Here's a close up look at card 1:
The technique I used to ink the debossed of the embossing folder is to use a medium soft brayer (I use the black Tim Holtz one) and your glass mat. I've tried often to ink embossing folders in many different ways, but this is the only way I have found that make a soft smooth layer of color on your background. Make sure you are putting the ink on the debossed side.
To make it smooth, take your ink pad (I used Distress Oxide Saltwater Taffy) and put lots of ink on your glass mat, directly with pad on the glass mat. Next take your brayer and bray over the ink over and over until your glass mat has a very smooth even color of ink BEFORE you take the brayer directly to the debossed side of the folder. You will need to do this about 5 or 6 times - believe me, it takes several coats. You will actually see the smooth ink forming on the folder with about the 3rd or 4th pass, but just keep going because you won't get a dark enough panel if you stop there.
Once inked lay the cardstock on the dry side of the inside of the embossing folder and close it. Run it through your die cutting/embossing machine (I used my Platinum 6 machine) and take it out carefully to let it dry. The floral pattern will be press upward and look stunning. Be sure to clean your embossing folder while you wait for the ink to dry and also wipe up any excess ink on your glass mat. I often use a clean piece of cardstock to pick up some of the left over ink, I'll spray it with water to get more of it up on the cardstock. Now you have any extra pinkish panel you can use for a different card.
The sentiment for both cards is from the Breezy Bouquet clear stamp set, heat embossed in white on black cardstock.
Here's one last look at my first card:
Now let's take a look at another technique you can use to achieve almost the same results but with even more texture.
For this card I used the brayer technique with Distress Oxide Salvaged Patina ink the same way that I did the pink one above.
Next I took a piece of vellum and used the coordinating floral die from the stamp set to cut the flower out. Once cut, place it inside the 3D embossing folder taking care to line it up exactly, then run it through your machine to emboss the vellum. Once embossed, place it on top of the white embossed section of your orginal inked panel. I used liquid glue under the sentiment to attach the vellum to the raised white embossed part of the blue panel. To secure it in a few other places, I added just very tiny dots of a dot runner to various places under the vellum so you can’t see the adhesive.
Lastly I added a few Fairy Jewels to the card front and the largest flower's center.
Here's one last look:
I hope you like my card for today, I have lots of fun making them! Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the entire new release! For more links and info, you can go to my blog here.
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