We are thrilled to welcome Stephanie Klauck back to The CLASSroom today! Stephanie always amazes us with her clever use of color & sparkles! She really knows how to add shimmer & shine, as you will see with the cool technique she is sharing with us today!
You can see more of Stephanie's beautiful work on her blog, Round Here. And while you are there, make sure to leave her some comment love before June 19th for a chance to win a $50 coupon to use in our store!
Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us Stephanie!!!
Hi everyone! It's Stephanie here with you today and I am thrilled to be guesting in the Ellen Hutson Classroom with a glittery, embossed card featuring the Mondo Magnolia stamp set.
Awhile ago I discovered during some creative play time that you can heat emboss on glitter paper. I don't know why I never thought to do it before then, but once I realized how great it looks, it quickly became a favourite new technique.
For my card today I wanted to create a large, glitter panel to be the focus of the card. I started out by stamping the Mondo Magnolia flower on the corner of my glitter cardstock with Versamark ink and then I heat embossed it with WOW Bluetiful embossing powder. You just want to make sure to continuously move your heat gun to help prevent warping. It is so neat to see the powder melt into the glitter cardstock and take on a sparkly look once it's heat set.
I continued to stamp and heat set the flowers until I had covered an area large enough for my panel and then I diecut the panel from the glitter cardstock using the large stitched rectangle die from the Blueprints 29 die set from My Favorite Things.
I decided that I wanted to add a vellum flower layered over the glitter panel so I stamped and heat embossed one if the flowers on vellum and then I cut around it with my scissors.
I added the vellum flower on the panel and then layered a silver sparkle flower over top that I had trimmed down. I stamped the sentiment onto white cardstock and layered it under the flower.
I finished the card by adding the panel to a black cardstock mat and then adhered it to a top-folding A2 size card base. I added clear sequins around the flower with some in the center of the flower as well.
I hope you'll give heat embossing on glitter cardstock a try... it is such a fun technique and looks so pretty on a finished card. Thank you so much for joining me in the classroom today.
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