Hello and welcome! This is Shanna here today, and I am excited to bring you the next card in my Happiness is card series featuring some of the stamps from the Happiness Is Collection from Crackerbox Stamps! This collection has a TON of different sentiment choices, and I am really looking forward to sharing some of them with all of you over the coming months. Be sure to read to the end of the post for a special treat!!
ALL STAMPS USED:
This card has some really fun and easy techniques I wanted to share with all of you! Let’s start off with that fun shoe background. The technique is called “emboss resist”. I started by ink-blending a multicolored card panel using a rainbow of colors. I heat set that dry, and then I heat embossed the Floral Lady stamp in a rose gold-toned embossing powder. After that was cooled off, I masked it off with a fussy cut post-it so I could stamp the Shoe Background stamp directly beside the Floral Lady—I loved having the happy accident of the heights of these two images being pretty near identical! The Shoe background was stamped in embossing ink and then heat embossed as well in clear embossing powder. The clear embossing powder essentially “traps” the color underneath. The next step in this technique is to take a dark ink, black in this case, and ink blend all over the panel. The heat-embossed images will not be colored, only the paper—the embossed images *resist* the ink, ergo the name of the technique :)
After finishing my background/focal panel, I needed to add my sentiment. I trimmed my focal panel down and mounted it onto a piece of iridescent vellum for extra shimmer—then attached it to an A2 card base. My sentiment was heat embossed in the same rose gold embossing powder as I did the Floral Lady image to tie it all together. The sentiment was a little long—so I did paper surgery and cut the sentiment apart after embossing so I could position a shorter cluster sentiment to the side rather than stretch a long sentiment across my card. So versatile!
I had a lot of fun making these cards---and am really excited to keep moving forward in this series. Take a peek at the Happiness Is collection for yourself and see if you are inspired as well!
Here are the previous cards in the series:
Crackerbox Fans, BONUS!!
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The entire Happiness Is stamp collection is
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Until next time---
~Shanna
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