Category Archives: Techniques

Black Ice Technique

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Have you ever come across black ice? It’s hard to see at first. It just adds a sheen, a thin layer of shine to the surface. Well that is what this technique does.. it adds a streaky shine to foil card.

I used gold foil card and stamped leaves randomly, using Staz On ink. Staz On works best on foil card. The memento ink tends to slip when stamping on foil and it takes awhile to dry. Most people who do thos technique, also drag the Staz On ink pad lightly over the card and around the edges to create some black streaks but I chose to leave mine plain.

Next swipe Versamark ink pad over the whole foil card piece and sprinkle with clear embossing powder. Take a stiff brush and lightly brush off some powder, creating some streaks as you go. Then heat set. Because you used clear powder you will still be able to see your stamping, the embossing will give the foil card an interesting texture.

Pocket full of posies.

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Remember that nursery rhyme a pocket full of posies. A-tishoo, A-tishoo, we all fall down? So many of my friends are “falling down” with colds and flu at the moment so I decided to make this get well card, featuring a pocket of posies.

The pocket is made with a technique called faux demin. You start with a piece of white card and swipe your blue ink pads across it to add streaks of colour. I used Balmy Blue and Pacific Point. Swipe in both directions, up snd down and across. Once the ink was dry I swiped over the card again using craft white ink. I also drew in a few lines with my blue Blends to try and create the look of threads in fabric.

It is a time consuming technique but fun to do if you are wanting to try something different.

Waves of Inspiration Card

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This is a card that I taught in class last week, using one of my new favourite bundles; Waves of Inspiration.

It features an old stamping technique called Kissing Technique. This is where you take a bold image stamp and detailed image stamp. Ink them both up in two different colours. Use a lighter ink colour on the bold image stamp. (I used Balmy Blue on the hello stamp) and use a darker ink colour on the detailed stamp. (I used Pacific Point on the nest stamp, taken from Sweet Songbirds stamp set). Then press or kiss the two stamps together. The darker ink colour will transfer onto your bold image stamp, which you can then press onto your card. I like how this turned out as it gives the impression of waves, in the word “hello”.

I stamped the pelican again inside the card but this time I masked off one of the posts, to give the impression of a rising tide.