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Friday, June 17, 2022

Caring Heart

Welcome back to my blog and Magenta Super Saturday.

I used the new “From the Heart” stamp for today’s card. You can also see my card on the Magenta blog here.

I inked half of the stamp with Picked Raspberry Distress ink and stamped it on white cardstock, then inked up the other half of the stamp with Salty Ocean Distress ink. The colors overlap in the center to create a shade of purple. I repeated the process a couple of times until I was happy with the depth of color. I used a die to cut out a heart shape and also cut two more hearts and glued all three pieces together.

For the corner background I switched to lighter colors of ink (Spun Sugar, Tumbled Glass and Shaded Lilac.) I placed the stamp in the upper left corner and inked with Spun sugar on the outer edge and Shaded Lilac toward the middle.) I moved the stamp to the right, inked the center with Shaded Lilac and then Tumbled glass. I cut the paper at an angle for the upper left side of the card. I stamped the sentiment on the bottom of a piece of 3 ¾” x 5” white cardstock, added the background piece to the upper corner, a strip of silver metallic paper, then adhered the heart. I adhered the whole piece to a piece of navy blue cardstock, then to an A2 card.

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Magenta Products Used:

0836.N - From the Heart

07.817.H - May the Love

Other Products Used:

Distress Ink

Hero Arts Heart Infinity Dies

Friday, July 9, 2021

Welcome back to my blog and Magenta Super Saturday. Today I have a card that is very quick and easy which you can also see on the Magenta blog here.

I pulled a piece of background paper from my stash. This particular piece was made using shaving cream and Nuance. You can see my post on how to make the paper here.

I selected this piece because I liked the swirl design and I thought it would work well with the Dandelion Trio stamp. I cut the background paper to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and adhered it to the front of an A2 card. You can certainly use any paper, or scrapbook paper; just experiment by holding your vellum over the background paper to see which one you like the best.

I cut a piece of medium weight vellum to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and liberally used my powder tool over the entire surface then placed it in my stamp positioner. The Dandelion Trio stamp is a two-piece set and I positioned the piece with two dandelions on the left side of the vellum. I positioned the sentiment on the right side of the vellum and stamped both images at the same time with VersaMark ink. I embossed with Brutus Monroe Gilded Gold embossing powder. When embossing on vellum it is important to pre-heat your embossing tool and to keep it moving over the surface of the paper to keep the paper from warping or melting while the embossing powder melts.

I applied VersaMark ink around all four sides of the stamped image and then embossed with more gold embossing powder. You can do this step multiple times until you have the amount of gold around the edges that you like.

On the back of the vellum, I applied small drops of glue under the gold and under parts of the stamped image. By putting the glue under the gold embossing powder, it won’t show through to the front of the vellum. I adhered the vellum to the front of the card and then put a book on top of the card to weigh down the vellum until the glue dried. For the final step I added a few gold gems.

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Magenta Products Used:

07.817.H - May the Love

0762.P - Dandelion Trio

MNUC - Nuance

Other Products Used:

Brutus Monroe Gilded Gold Embossing Powder

VersaMark Ink

Friday, February 19, 2021

Magenta Super Saturday - One Image, Three Cards

Welcome back to my blog. I had so much fun making these cards. I stamped and painted one large image then cut it into three pieces to create three cards. You can also see my cards on the Magenta blog here.

I stamped the Floral Background stamp onto a piece of Stonehenge Aqua Coldpress black watercolor paper with VersaMark ink, then embossed with gold embossing powder.

I taped the piece to a board to keep the paper flat while I painted the flowers, leaves and berries. I used Iuile watercolors that I found on the Etsy website. If you follow Kristina Werner, you may have seen her use these watercolors on a Christmas card (which you can see here) or a Valentine card (which you can see here.) I am in love with the rich colors and beautiful shine of these paints.

Iuile makes these great dot cards with very generous samples of many colors and they are very reasonably priced. There’s more than enough paint on a card to do several projects so you can definitely try these before you decide to purchase the larger sizes. You can see Iuile’s Etsy store here.

After I completed the painting, I let the piece dry thoroughly. The watercolor paper I used is kind of delicate and to get a clean cut you need to use dies or a guillotine cutter.

I used the small stitched square dies from Gina K’s Master Layout set #4 cut out two 2 3/8” squares from one side of the image. Then I used guillotine cutter to cut a strip 1 5/8” x 5”. I cut pieces of coordinating solid color cardstock to mat each of the images. I also cut cream cardstock – 3 ¼” x 4 ½” for the square images and 3 ¾” x 5” for the vertical piece.

I stamped the sentiments and embossed the images on the cream cardstock (gold embossing powder for the happy birthday, clear embossing powder for the other two cards.)

I positioned (but didn’t attach) each painted image on a piece of cream cardstock. I wanted to add a bit of interest to the cream cardstock so I used VersaMark ink to stamp the small flower petal from the Petal Blossoms set a few times around the image and sentiment, then lightly brushed on Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls.