THURSDAY'S DREAM SCHEMES
Happy Thanksgiving and welcome to the first "Thursday's Dream Schemes" challenge. This Thursday I gave just the design team members the challenge to create Christmas cards with a non-traditional colorway. In this instance that means no Christmas red or green and no maroon or forest green. Should be fun to see what everyone did. The designers have been giving me some teases, so I'm looking forward to hopping from blog to blog to see what their creative little pea brains have been up to (just checking to see if any of the team is following along...hehehe!). So use the side bar where their names are listed and travel along to enjoy. In the future we want you to play along with our challenges and hops so stay in touch and feel free to encourage us with your comments...we love those!
AN UNUSUAL GLITTER TECHNIQUE
I have discovered long ago that I am a true technique junkie and I would like to share with you a very simple technique using the glossy metallic embossing pastes and ultrafine glitters. To begin with I paste-embossed the line of Christmas trees (LL532) with the Metallic Gold Embossing Paste. I used a black velvet paper from SEI. While the paste was still wet I held the cardstock at an angle and waterfalled the glitters one at a time off of each tree. I love the contrast of the black velvet background and the sparkling ultrafine glitters from Stampendous. Since I wanted the paste to be very dry I placed it on a warm electric pancake griddle at a very low setting and then prepared my second card.
This time I paste-embossed the ornaments stencil (LL468) with the Metallic Silver Embossing Paste and added the glitter in the same waterfall method as the first card, tapped off the excess glitter and set this aside to dry on the warm electric pancake griddle.
Once these were both dry I took a craft knife and with the tip I scraped off the detail areas of each tree or ornament, as shown in the picture. On the larger areas I kept the blade of the knife more flat and used the tip for the finer details. I noticed that the ornaments that were basecoated with the silver paste had an almost pastel look to the scraped areas, just slightly lighter tints as if the glitter had stained the paste. So I'd like to challenge you to try some of the other pastes and see what your results might be.
12 comments:
Love it! If I thought my family wouldn't mind a bit of glitter on the turkey, I'd be trying this technique right now. Sadly, they would mind, so it will have to wait. Thanks for the excellent instructions.
Now that is GREAT! Love the colors and glad you got to play too! Very pretty cards. I am glad you used glitter too! I didn't!!! Can you believe it! Again..beautiful!!!
The colors are wonderful. As is the technique.
Thinking outside the box!! I never would have thought to scrape off the glitter. LOVE the way it looks on the velvet paper. Thanks for the new idea!
Great technique and cards. I will definitely be trying this soon! Happy Thanksgiving. I'm thankful to be part of your team.
What a fun technique to try! The colors are beautiful.
Love that technique with the trees! Matter of fact...love that stencil!
Your cards are lovely. I enjoyed the break in a busy day to rest, blog surf and pick up a few new techniques to try. Your design team's blogs were just "stuffed" with great ideas!
Just GORGEOUS Lynell! Your photography is so CLEAR too...what camera do you use?
Beautiful Lynell!! I love reading your posts due to learning something new every time I visit. I hope you had a splendid Thanksgiving.
Oh these are so beautiful. I love the ornament stencil. Happy Thanksgiving to you and thanks for sharing with us.
Lovely!
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