September Stampers 6 projects

Ooop's  Whilst playing catch up today I realised that I didn't post the September Stampers 6 projects, so here they are, a very diverse pair of cards.

Supplies for this card

Papers

Designer series paper stack ~ Regals patterned paper

Stamps

Nature Walk

Inks

Basic Grey

Stampin' Write pens 

Garden Green

More Mustard

Tangerine Tango

Early Espresso

Tools

Paper Piercer tool

Colour Spritzer tool

Scallop border punch

Stamp a ma jig

Clear mount blocks

Stampin' Dimensionals

Cardstock

Night of Navy

Very vanilla

More Mustard

Faux Pearl Background Technique

Supplies for this card
Cardstock
Very Vanilla
Perfect Plum
Certainly Celery
Crumb Cake
Glossy White Cardstock
Ink
Versamark
Perfect plum
Concord Crush
Blushing Bride.
Tools
Heat tool
Bird punch
Large oval punch
Modern Label punch
Fancy Flower punch
Paper Piercing tool
Sponge Dauber
Scallop Border punch
Decoration
White embossing Powder
Clear embossing powder
Basic Rhinestones
Frost White Shimmer paint
In Addition you will need 
A food bag
Something like a pringle tube lid to use as a palette

To make the Faux pearl background you will need a piece of glossy card.

• Completely cover the glossy card with the blushing bride ink pad using a direct to paper technique, this needs to be completely covered but it doesn't matter if the colour is un-even.
• Tip a small amount of the frost white shimmer paint onto a palette.
• Scrunch up the food bag this will be your applicator to make the pattern.
• Dip the food bag into the paint & apply to the pink glossy in a dabbing pattern, carry on until the pink card is covered ( but in a patchy way )
• Leave to dry
• Then using kitchen roll buff to a shine
• This can be made using any colour ink pad, red & green would look great for seasonal projects.

Well that's another project uploaded what else can I find?

Technique Thursday

Using Heat & Stick Powder

1]   Stamp image with VersaMark^® or Craft Stampin' Pad.

2]   Apply Heat & Stick powder to the inked image. Shake off excess powder onto the Powder Pal or a piece of scratch paper and funnel it back into its container.

3]   Heat image with the heat tool just until powder turns to liquid. Do not overheat.
4]   Pour glitter onto the inked image, making sure that the image is coated completely.
5]   Shake off excess glitter as described in Step 2.
6]   Heat again briefly to set.
QUICK TIP
Our Powder Pal is an excellent alternative to scratch paper for saving excess powder and glitter. It also makes cleanup a snap!

Technique Thursday

Heat Embossing 

Technique A:  Heat Embossing

1]   Place your card stock in a Powder  tray or over a large piece of scratch paper.

2]   Rub the Embossing Buddy across the card stock you want to emboss. This keeps the embossing powder from sticking anywhere but on the ink. 

3]   Stamp the image with Craft, VersaMark, or embossing ink.

4]   Pour powder onto the inked image, making sure that the image is coated completely. 

5]   Shake off excess powder into the tray and funnel it back into the container.

6]   Heat the stamped image only until the powder changes to a shiny liquid and rises.

7]   Allow embossed image to cool. 

Technique B:  Emboss Resist

1]   Follow steps 1-7 above, using Stampin' Emboss clear embossing powder.

2]   Apply ink with a sponge directly to the paper over and around the embossed image.

3]   Wipe the embossed image with a tissue to remove the excess ink.

QUICK TIP

Avoid overheating the powder and burning the paper when working with a heat tool.

Technique Thursday

EMBOSS RESIST Directions: 1) Stamp and heat emboss your image. Allow image to cool. 2) Apply ink directly to the paper (over and around the embossed image) using a sponge or brayer. 3) Wipe the embossed image with a tissue to remove the excess ink. Variation: watercolor resist 1) Once you've embossed an image, scribble around and over the image using a Watercolor Wonder Crayon, and blend using an Aqua Painter. Wipe the color from the embossed image, and allow to dry completely.

Technique Thursday

MASKING

1]   Stamp image on card stock.

2]   Stamp it again on a piece of scratch paper.
3]   Cut carefully around the scratch paper image, cutting just inside the lines; this will be your mask.
4]   Place the mask on top of the card stock image.
5]   Stamp another image over a portion of the mask to create layered, interacting images.
6]   Remove the mask to see the finished look. 
7]   To stamp a partial image, use tape to cover the part of the stamp you don't want to appear, ink the stamp, remove the tape, and stamp the image.
QUICK TIP 
To ensure that the mask stays in place, stamp image on a Post-It® note.

Vintage Vogue feature

Have you seen this months issue of the Making cards magazine? The July Issue has a feature using the lovely Vintage Vogue stamp set & they ise the kissing technique.

The kissing technique is a great way to get more use from your stamps. There are several different ways to use this technique:

Take a background or textured stamp and ink it with a dark color. Place it face up on your work surface. Then ink a solid stamp with a lighter color. Press the solid stamp into the background stamp so that they “kiss” each other. The background stamp leaves a pattern into the solid stamp. Then take the kissed solid stamp and stamp onto cardstock.
As a variation, ink the two stamps in coordinating colors, rather than a lighter shade of the same color, and “kiss” them together. Then press the solid stamp onto cardstock.


Ink a solid stamp and “kiss” it with an un-inked pattern stamp. This removes ink in the shape of the pattern. Stamp the kissed solid stamp onto cardstock.

All of the Stampin' Up products are  available to purchase through me including the very versatile Vogue set used in this feature.