Showing posts with label embossing paste. Show all posts
Showing posts with label embossing paste. Show all posts

7 February 2018

Stop and Smell the Roses | Couture Creations


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Good Morning Everyone,

Having pretty papers to play with makes creating so much easier.  I love the C'est La Vie collection and am really enjoying doing layouts with the 12x12 paper pad. This latest one is of me with my gorgeous niece Sabine and some Snapchat fun :)


I decided for this layout that I needed to mute the patterned paper that I used to base my layout around.  To do this I chose to use the Anna Griffin/Couture Creations Acrylic Gesso.  I did a light coat to the paper and allowed it to dry.


This 2nd photo shows how much softer the paper looks.

I added some texture to the background using one of the Anna Griffin/Couture Creations stencils with the beautiful fluffy embossing paste.  This embossing paste is my go to for adding texture to my pages.  It is a beautiful white and more importantly it dries so quickly which is fantastic as it doesn't slow me down to much when I am on a roll with my creating.

 Next I took a selection of patterned papers and transformed them in to banners of differing widths and lengths.  I muted the edges with a matching pink ink.

Below is a rough placement of how I wanted the papers to look before I adhered them to the page.

I added a paper doily to the sides of banners to bring in some white to the page.  
This really popped in the finished page. I also added a largish paper doily from my collection.

Once this was done I mounted my photo on to a soft green/blue Ultimate Crafts cardstock called Charming, again softening the edges with the pink ink and then just added a die cut (discontined) in the same green behind the photo (cut in half), overlapping the paper doily.

Once my photo was attached to the page, I added some bling and my flower cluster.  The two butterflies at the top were fussy cut from one of the pieces of paper.

To finish it off I chose a chipboard title from the C'est La Vie collection, Stop and Smell the Roses.  This one was hotfoiled using the Champagne coloured foil.

I hope you like it.









8 December 2017

Wedding Congratulations


Hi Everyone,

Anita back here on the blog with you today.

I can't believe we nearly half way through December already.  CRAZY!!!!!!

For my post for your today I thought I would share with you a card I made for my younger brothers wedding.  Looking at it you would not know it was a wedding card, and I guess it could be used for any occasion.




The real reason I am sharing this with you is because I have found another technique that can be used with your GoPress and Foil machine.

You will have to follow through my tutorial to see exactly what it is but if you love your shabby chic card making or scrapbooking you will love what I have found for you.

So come on this journey today with me and check it out.

Okay, so to start I chose a very pale piece of pink cardstock and it cut it down to 6"x12" to make a square 6x6" card base.
Next I took some of the gorgeous Damask Gold Mirror Board and cut it down to 5 7/8" x 5 7/8" and adhered it to the card base.

Using the Damask Gold mirror board cut out two of the Nostalgic Narelle die from the Ornamental Lace collection of dies.

  
I attached the two die cuts along the top and bottom of the card base just along the straight edge.



OKAY...... now on to what I've found out!!!!!!!

So many of us have played with embossing or texture paste into silicone molds.
These molds are the same ones that cake decorators use with the fondant icing.

 I applied the embossing paste in to my chosen mold.  I love using the embossing paste because I tend to find that it dries quicker than the texture paste and remains a little more malleable.


I left it overnight to dry so that it came out of the mold cleanly.  If you try and take it out too early it will break and/or stick to the mold. PLUS be very careful taking it out particularly 
the more detailed ones.


 So this is just how pretty the mold it when you remove it from the silicone. 



So, I had been playing with my GoPress and Foil Machine and thought that we can pretty much foil most things so I thought, what about these gorgeous molded embellishments. The one I used is not thicker than a piece of normal chipboard so it had to work.... right??

I played and played and finally I got the result I was after.

So, as per normal heat up your machine.  
Place your chosen foil coloured side down towards the black heat pad, dull silver side facing up.  
Next, place your mold facing down on to the dull silver of the foil.

Now, I always have protected my plastic plate at the top of my machine with a cardstock shim, but found if I used this with the mold embellishment it stuck to the cardstock.  I think this was because of the heat being transferred through the embossing paste and making it slightly sticky for a small period of time.

So the end result was I used a piece of a 'stuffed' non stick mat which I had mistakenly cut with a craft knife.  I cut the mat down in to several different sizes and now one stays with my 
GoPress and Foil Machine.

The most important thing to remember is that pretty much as soon as you put the foil, mold and craft mat down you need to run it through the die cutting machine.  If you keep it too long on the heat plate I found that when you run it through the die cutting machine it squishes flat.  

It's all about speed for this one. I let it cool on the mat prior to pulling it off so that it became a little harder again.


So this is final result.  I had made the picture big so you can see just how gorgeous it came out.
I used the Champagne Iridescent Foil for this one. 

The foil doesn't get down in to the nooks and crannies of the mold but that is the whole point.
We want it to look 'shabby chic'.

I just love it!!!



So I now know you all want to go out and try it..... but let me finish my tutorial first :)
Okay, so next I cut the molded piece in half, and then glued it on to a piece of the pink cardstock, matted again on some of the Damask Gold mirror board.



I mounted this piece across the centre of the card and added some matching flowers to the centre of the mold.  To finish I made a matching envelope and added a Simone's Style die cut across the bottom of the envelope, adding another couple of flowers.  This die was also from the Ornamental Lace collection of dies.


It was a quick card and I love the new technique I discovered whilst playing.... now I just want to keep playing more and more making pretty things.








 PRODUCTS USED



Okie Dokie, so I hope you loved the new technique with the GoPress and Foil Machine.

It is amazing what you can do with the machine.  Just use your imagination.

Thank you for joining me on the blog today. Don't forget to check back
tomorrow for some more wonderful inspiration from the Design Team.

Keep Creating
Anita
xx
 





15 June 2017

Brisbane Scrapbook and Papercraft Expo Class Creations

Hi Everyone

Well I'm finally back to share with you the creations I made for the classes I taught at Brisbane's Scrapbook and Papercraft Expo.
I was privileged to be asked by Craft Giraffe to takes a class for them, and I loved every minute of it.  All the ladies in my classes were very welcoming as this was my first show teaching.

My creations showcased the 'Gatsby' colour collection from the new Ultimate Crafts THE RITZ Collection.  The other colour collections included 'Theatre' which was softer colours of creams with gold and 'Evening Cocktail' which was black and gold based.

My class consisted of a 1 page scrapbooking layout along with two cards that could be completed at home.





Celebration Card







 Best Wishes Card






LAYOUT INSTRUCTIONS

1.     Cut you piece of white cardstock down to 11 ½” x 11 ½” or 29.3cm x 29.3cm.

2.     Taking you geometric stencil, using the Couture Creations embossing paste, add some texture to the left hand side of the page, but not right to the edge.

3.     Whilst the embossing paste is wet sprinkle with the gold embossing powder.  It is up to you, but I didn’t coat all of the embossing paste, and some areas were more heavily sprinkled with the powder than others.  Hold aside to allow it to start to dry.

4.     Let’s cut the papers:

Patterned Paper -
1. Spiral Fan – cut a horizontal line at 3” or 7.5cm (you will have 2 pieces of the same size)
2. Crashing Wave – 5” long x 4” wide or 12.7cm x 10.4cm
3. Damask Paper – 5” x 5” or 12.7cm x 12.7cm

Black Cardstock
1. For Spiral Fan – 12” wide x 3 1/8” long or 30cm x 7.7cm
2. For Crashing Wave – 5 1/8” x 4 1/8”or 13cm x 10.7cm
3. For Damask – 5 1/8” x 5 1/8” or 13cm x 13cm.
4. Cut a piece of black cardstock to use to mat your photo.

5.  Go back to your white cardstock.  Using a heat gun, heat set your embossing powder.  Don’t worry if the embossing paste bubbles a bit as this gives it even more texture. 

6.  Attach your white cardstock to your second piece of black cardstock.

7.  Attach all your patterned pieces of paper to the black card mats.

8.     Inside your kit you will find two black die cuts, the Art Deco columns die (curly) and the Art Deco Tag die.  There is also a piece of black cardstock that has a white backing.  This backing is double side tape.  Using your geometric die from your kit, die cut two of these on the black cardstock piece.

9.     Using the A5 piece of white card we are going to heat foil the Art Deco stamp on to the card with some matte gold foil.  Follow the instructions given by the tutor.

10. From your kit take the floral die cut that has the double sided tape (with the white paper on top).  Cut a piece of gold foil just big enough to cover the floral die cut.  Remove the white paper from the die and gold side facing up adhere the foil to the double sided tape.  Rub rub rub the foil with your fingers (gently) to coat the tape with the foil.  Pull off the foil to show the result.  If foil hasn’t taken in all areas, you can continue to add the foil back to the die until you are happy with the end result.

11. Take the large and three medium size flowers and tab lightly with some liquid glue.  Hold to the side until the glue has gotten ‘tacky’ but not dry.  Take a piece of ‘scrap’ foil and rub over the flower over the top of the tacky glue.  The foil will adhere to the glue. 

12. CONSTRUCTION TIME

13. Remove the backing of the two die cuts that you did using the geometric die.  Adhere to the left side of the white cardstock approximately 1” in from the side.

14. Take your hot foil stamped image and fussy cut.

15. Take your foiled floral die cut, fussy cut hot foiled stamped image and your Art Deco tag die and cut each one in half.

16. Attach each half of the hot foiled stamped image on to each half of the Art Deco tag. Adhere to the back of your photo, to the top and bottom using some double sided tape. 

17. Adhere ½ of your floral foiled die cut to the Art Deco column (curly die) and attach both to the back of the left side of your photo.

18. Attach some 3D foam tape to the reverse of your photo.

19. Adhere the second half of the foiled floral die cut to the back bottom edge of the Crashing Waves patterned paper.

20. Next attach your matted patterned papers to the layout as per the above photo.  Personally with this layout I found it easier to attach the patterned papers to the back of the photo and then attach the entire stack to the white cardstock.

21. Using the packet of gold pearls adhere to both the left and right sides of the Spiral Fan patterned paper. 

22. Adhere your flowers to the layout, glue down the tassel and add some sequins of your choice to the page if you choose.

23. FINISHED J

24. As this layout is designed to cover an array of different photos I did not choose a title for the page.  I will leave this up to you to add one should you choose. 


CELEBRATION CARD INSTRUCTIONS

1.     Cut a piece of chosen patterned paper to cover your card front, attach with glue or double side tape.
2.     Attach both the blue Art Deco Columns dies to the card front.
3.     Cut a piece of the white card approximately ¾” or 2cm to cover the seam of the two dies that your adhered to your card front.
4.     Mount the white cardstock strip on some 3D foam dots or 3D foam tape and attach to your card.
5.     Fussy cut the Art Deco tag hot foiled stamp and then adhere to some black cardstock from your kit.  Fussy cut around the foiled stamp to make a black mat. Adhere to the white cardstock strip using 3D foam tape or dots.
6.     From your 6x6” paper pad fussy cut the ‘celebration’ sentiment from the gold foiled papers at the back of the pad.  Adhere to the centre of the Art Deco tag foiled stamp.

              
BEST WISHES CARD INSTRUCTIONS

1.     Take the floral die cut with the doubled sided tape on the front and remove the paper.  Add some foil to the tape as you did in the layout.
2.     Adhere, off centre, to the back of the black floral die cut.
3.     Cut a 2” wide strip of chosen patterned paper and mat on some black cardstock. 
4.     From your 6x6” paper pad fussy cut the ‘best wishes’ tag from the gold foiled papers at the back of the pad. Add some 3D foam dots to the reverse.
5.     Taking the white card front we are now going to try another different technique using the GoPress and Foil machine.  We can foil using your existing dies.  This will put a nice fine detail on your card. Hot foil a geometric die to both the top and bottom of the card.
6.     Adhere your matted patterned paper to the centre in between the two foiled die images.
7.     Adhere the double floral die cuts to the left of the patterned papers.
8.     Add your sentiment next to the floral die cuts. 





5 June 2017

Love LIfe


Hi Everyone,  back again (after a little absense) with a layout I created  on the weekend using the Ultimate Crafts L'Aquarelle collction.   For some reason this came pretty easily to me which really says something. I can normally spend hours and hours trying to think of something to do but this one came together quite quickly.


To start I added some of the Anna Griffin Mix and Match Pigment Powder in red to my Embossing Paste.  Using the Field of Flowers stencil I messily added the colour paste over my background papers.  I then chose a Couture Creations Anna Griffin 10x10" floral stencil, added the white embossing paste to a couple of the flowers on to the background papers.


 I next mixed up some spray using the same red pigment powder that I coloured the embossing paste with.  Just add water to the pigment powder to get a nice pearlised spritz.


 I die cut two of the Floral Bunting die and then trimmed them down.  Check out the before and after picture.  I then sprayed them with the pearlised spritz that I made.



Next I chose a couple of coordinating papers from the 6x6"paper pad and cut them in to strips.  I inked the edges in black and on the purpley/blue paper I stamped a flower image from the Fern, Flower and Flourishes stamp set.



I mounted my photo on 3D mounting tape and then attached my die cuts to the reverse along with the strips of paper in a style that I liked.  I then glued this down to my base patterned paper.
From there I mounted one of the Inspiration Cards on some white cardstock and ink the edges, again, in black. This was then adhered to the bottom left corner of the page.
I chose a selection of flowers, both from my stash and some of the Couture Creations bulk flowers, sprtized the centres of slightly coloured some of them using the matching Pearl Drops
in the colour Madagascar. My page had three different clusters of flowers. Once together I decided to add a stamped image to my background and chose the smaller of the two feathers from the You are Beautiful Inside stamp set.
Finally I added a few wood veneers, inked in a matching ink, to the page.





Products Used
 CO724888 - Couture Creations Anna Griffin Mixed Media - 8x8" Stencil Secret Garden Damask
CO724870 - Couture Creations Anna Griffin Mixed Media - Embossing Paste
CO725535 - Couture Creations Anna Griffin Mixed Media - Pigment Powder - RED
CO724290 - Couture Creations Bulk Flowers - 1.5cm English Rose
CO724293 - Couture Creations Bulk Flowers - 3cm Tye Died and Jewelled
CO724389 - Turbo Precision Glue Pen
ULT157789 - Ultimate Crafts L'Aquarelle - Floral BuntingDie
ULT157800 - Ultimate Crafts L'Aquarelle - 8x8" Stencil - Field of Flowers
ULT157797 - Ultimate Crafts L'Aquarelle - Stamp Set - You are Beautiful Inside
ULT157796 - Ultimate Crafts L'Aquarelle - Stamp Set - Ferns, Flowers & Flourishes
ULT157764 - Ultimate Craft L'Aquarelle - Inspiration Cards
ULT157762 - Ultimate Crafts L'Aquarelle - 6x6" Paper Pad
ULT157761 - Ultimate Craft L'Aquarelle - 12x12" Paper Pad


Thanks for stopping by.

Anita
xx