Hello Stampers ~ today my dry embossing meets glossy card stock for a cool underwater scene.
I finally finished up some samples for my Learn Something New class next week. Now I have to decide which cards we will do in the class. There are so many ideas I played with that it is hard to decide. I will have to make a decision as I need to send out the e-mail about the class tomorrow. Speaking of e-mails, are you getting my newsletters? I just sent out one today that had some great ideas in it. Make sure you fill out the form to the right so you can get my monthly newsletter.
I am playing along with C.A.S.E.ing the Catty Facebook group today. This week we were to C.A.S.E. a project from the Everyday Occasions section, pages 18-67, of the 2017-2108 Annual Catalogue. There are some great samples in there. I chose this one to C.A.S.E.
First thing I had to do was find a stamp set as I did not have this one. I looked through the section and found the Seaside Shore stamp set that I had. In looking at the original card there was a background layer that was embossed. I have the Seaside embossing folder also so that would take care of the background. So I was now ready for my dry embossing meets glossy card stock creation. I wanted to create a water background and I decided to play with some glossy card stock. I used Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo, and Pool Party and sponged it on my glossy card stock. I then spritzed it with water and let it dry. The result was perfect. I used the stamp set and stamped some seaweed. I used the heat tool to dry the ink so it would not smear. I repeated the process for the fish. I also used the Crushed Curry marker to color the fish and used the heat tool to dry it also. Now I was ready to put my card together. I added the embossed layer to the Pool Party card base using lots of strips of dimensionals. I wanted to make sure the background did not collapse. I used a scrap of Night of Navy that had a scallop edge and attached to the card base. I stamped the rope from the set twice using Crumb Cake on Very Vanilla card stock and cut it out. I attached these to the Night of Navy strip using glue dots. The fish layer was added on top using Tear & Tape. To finish off the card I stamped and cut out the anchor and added it with mini dimensionals. Here is my completed creation.
inside of card and envelope
Stampin’ Up supplies used for my creation
