Red And Gold Resist Christmas Background

Hello everybody! Today's card mainly focuses on this shiny gold and red background. Another main part to this card is the coloring because it ties the whole card together. So I first started out with a piece of watercolor paper and embossed this cat's eye background in a champagne recollections embossing powder. this is cold press watercolor paper so it has a texture, therefore it missed parts of the image, which I think added to this awesome background. Then I took the Red Royal Hero Arts Shadow Ink and blended it onto my surface. To get this ink to blend very good I added water to my blending tool as I was working. Next I took a panel and stamped out a background with two snowmen and a couple of snowflakes. (I stamped the snowmen in Memento Black Ink and the snowflakes in Color Theory Grey Area Ink). Then I colored them in with some Spectrum Noir's and Bic's. I also added Wink Of Stella to some of the accessories to add some shine and interest. I then added some shadowing in a very light blue color because I didn't want my snowmen to float in mid air. I then used that same embossing powder to do the greeting and a frame around the main image. I added clear sequins and rind stones to the piece. Another finishing touch is adding the Red Royal Ink around the edges. Finally I adhered everything together!
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Ombre Stamped Background + Adding Tags to cards

Hello everybody today's card focuses mainly on this awesome ombre stamped background and adding tags to cards. I started out with a tag that I die cut with Tim's Alteration Tiny Tabs And Tags Die and inked the edges with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. Then I Took a piece of yellow polka dot patterned paper from American Crafts and cut a 1/4 inch border around the tag and adhered them together. Next I took the smallest snowman from a Paper Smooches "Swanky Snow Dudes" stamp set and two snowflakes (the snowman is stamped in black Memento and the snowflakes are stamped with Grey Area from Studio Calico). For the sentiment stamp I used a Momenta stamp set full of Christmas greetings (this is stamped in Navy Hero Arts Ink). I then took a Recollections Cats Eye background stamp and inked it up with: Tide Pool (Hero Arts), Clear Blue (Studio Calico), And Navy (Hero Arts) ink. Next I cut a panel so it peeked out of the stamped background piece a tiny bit (using that same yellow paper). Finally I adhered everything together on to a top folding card base with the tag on foam adhesive!
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Dry Distress Blended Resist

Hello Everybody today's card mainly focuses on this awesome background again from Hero Arts called "Artistic circles". The first thing I did was take the background and stamp it in Versamark Ink and embossed it with clear heat embossing powder. I then took four colors of Mini Distress Inks: Seedless Preserves, Peacock Feathers, Spiced Marmalade, And Picked Raspberry. I used the mini blending tool to get great blended results! I then Took a damp baby wipe and buffed the surface of the embossing powder and make it shiny white again. Next I took the Tim Holtz Alterations Die (Tiny Tabs And Tags) to cut three of those tag circle supporter things out of black card stock and put two coats of Wink of Stella on them, as well as three hole punched
circles.Then I took a 1/4 inch strip of card stock and stamped "It's your birthday" in Versamark ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. Next I cut a black piece of card stock that was 1/8 in thick on each side of the background! Finally I adhered it all together on a top folding wide A2 card base! I think that buying great background stamps is a good investment because you can use them so many times in so many different ways!
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Shimmery Distress Ink Watercolor Resist

Hello Everybody! Today's card is mainly focused on this awesome water colored background. I used clear embossing powder to heat emboss this "Artistic Circles" background stamp from Hero Arts. I then took my Mini Distress Inks and my mini tools to sponge on some color onto each circle. After that I took a homemade Perfect Pearls water and sprayed the piece until it had big puddles of ink on it. Then I set it aside to let it dry. I would not heat set this just because it might have a chance of re heating your embossing powder which will mess things up.After that I took a Stampabilities

thank you stamp and inked the top up with Hero Arts Tide Pool ink. I then used champagne embossing powder to emboss the you. I also added some Wink of Stella over the thank part of the sentiment. I cut that down and adhered everything together! I also used foam tape to adhere the sentiment to the background. Sometimes keeping a card very simple but having a beautiful background makes the card much more elegant and makes the background the center of attention!
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