Heat Embossed Stencil

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Today, I have a clean and simple card for you. I will be doing some ink blending using a stencil and I show you how to heat emboss the blended image. For today's card, I will be using Gina K. Designs cardstock, ink and products. Let's get started!!

I will be doing all of my work today on my Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat.

To start, I cut a 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" panel out of Heavy Base White Cardstock using my Tim Holtz Guillotine Paper Trimmer. Using Purple Tape, I adhere my panel onto the back of my Thick Brush Stencil. Taking my Blender Brushes, I blend Wild Lilac Ink over the center of the stencil, fading out a little. Next, I add Blue Raspberry Ink around the previous color, fading out a bit further. I now blend Wild Dandelion Ink, blending around the previous color, and blending back into it to create my green color. Next, I blend Passionate Pink Ink around the corners and edges of the panel, blending back into the previous color to create my orange.

Taking my Embossing Reinker, I add a few drops onto my Glass Media Mat. I then take a Blending Tool with a foam pad and pounce it onto the embossing ink until the foam pad is saturated. Keeping the stencil attached to my inked panel, I pounce the foam pad over all of the areas of the stencil being sure to cover all of the inked areas well.

I now carefully remove the stencil from the inked panel, add Detail Clear Embossing Powder, tap off the excess powder and heat set with my Heat Tool.

Next, I take a 3 3/4" x 5" panel of Heavy Base White Cardstock and position my inked panel over it at an angle. I flip the two panels over and trace with a pencil around the white panel so that I know where to add the adhesive. I then add Terrific Tape along the inside edges of the pencil marks and center. I remove the release paper from the tape and adhere down onto the white panel using the pencil marks as a guide.

Using my Guillotine Paper Trimmer, I cut off all over hang from my panel. I then adhere onto a 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" panel of Black Onyx Cardstock. I take a 3 1/2" x 4 3/4" piece of Double Sided Adhesive Foam for a little dimension and adhere it to the back of my panel then adhere to a Lipstick Cardstock card base using Terrific Tape.

For my sentiment, I take a 3/4" x 3 3/4" strip of white cardstock and place it into my MISTI Stamp Positioner. I then stamp a sentiment from the Scripty Sayings 1 Stamp Set using Amalgam Ink. Finally, I adhere the sentiment onto a 1" x 3 3/4" strip of Lipstick Cardstock.

Using Foam Tape, I adhere the sentiment strip onto the front of the card. I add Rainbow Jewels from my stash using Liquid Glue and this completes my card.

Adding heat embossing to a blended stencil image, really steps up the look by adding shine and dimension. Gina K. Designs offers stencils in many different, unique designs that would work beautifully with this technique!


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Happy Stamping!!
Jeannie