I adore using vellum to create with. It's such an easy way to add a touch of glam to your designs. It's beautiful frosty look is especially wonderful for holiday designs and it makes a stunning card base. It's a great way to add translucence to a project and I'm excited to share this design and a few tips on creating with vellum.
This week in the CLASSroom we've been featuring the fabulous Hero Arts new release and it sure has me thinking ahead to cooler days. It's never too early to start your Christmas cards as the busy fall months seem to fly by in a blink. The stamp set I'm featuring today is the Color Layering Deer Stamp Set and Color Layering Deer Frame Cuts Dies. All those stamped layers really make this deer special and I'll be sharing my process with you as we go along.
To start off with though, I first turned to creating my vellum card base. It's created by cutting and 8.5" x 11" vellum card stock sheet in half and then scoring and folding to create an A5 size card. Pretty standard card making except that you can see through it. Add a layer inside the card adds a sweet pop of color and really sets off the card. It also gives you somewhere to write on. In this particular design though, be careful where you write as you'll see it through the vellum in some places. I'd choose to write under the deer area or to sign the back of the card instead.
This inner panel is die-cut with a stitched rectangle die (I used one from Blueprints Die-namics 13) and die -cut Bazzill card stock. Adhere to the inside of the card.
To add interest and a whole lot of shimmer to the card front I stamped some beautiful snowflakes from the Essentials by Ellen Christmas Scribbles Stamp Set in white pigment ink and then heat embossed them with a beautiful holographic embossing powder from Ranger. This embossing powder is beautiful and looks so lovely in person.
When stamping in multiple steps I like to play around with ink colors and layers on scrap paper first before I complete my final design. I'm doing something a little out of sync here so please note: ****I've reversed the order of stamping on the last two deer images*
Hero Arts suggests using the stamp that I've labelled 3. as the second impression to stamp. I'd normally do that BUT...I'm throwing a little twist into the mix. The deer has some beautiful gold ink used for one of the layers and in THIS case it works best if the gold layer is on top. That means you want to stamp it third. So if you recreate this...
- Stamp in Silver Fox Ink
- Stamp in Kraft Ink
- Stamp in Gold Delicata Ink
You may also notice I am stamping on TOP of a patterned paper pad. I really like doing this especially with a solid image as it just seems to give me a better and more uniform impression.
Here's what the deer looks like with three layers of stamping.
And here it is with some Jet Black stamping accents added for facial features and die cut from the card stock. At this point I also stamped on the black leg detail and stamped and die-cut the antlers.
Now that the image is complete, I then stamped the sentiment onto the card front in Jet Black Archival Ink. I've said it here many many times but you just cannot beat this ink...especially for hard to stamp on surfaces such as fabric and vellum.
Then the deer is adhered with dimensional foam squares and I've also die-cut a circle from Solar White Card Stock and adhered it inside the card to really zero in on the focal point.
And finally...I adhered some clear sequins around the circle area to add in one last festive touch of bling.
I hope you'll try your hand at a vellum card for a sweet look.
Thanks for joining me today in the CLASSroom and taking a peek at the new Hero Arts release!
Julia
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