Here are the rest of our beautiful asian cards we'll be making this
Saturday, February 5th 4pm-6pm
and Monday, February 7th 10am-12pm cost: $35
This first card is one of my favorites. i love how the purples go together. i just stamped this cherry blossom several times and embossed it in detail black, then i stamped it again on eggplant stardream cardstock and embossed it. i cut out two of the flowers and made a trail out of the cardstock. cherry blossom stamp is by memory box, sentiment by a muse. the dragonfly punch is by marvy. this card would be so pretty using other colors.. like fuschia pink on pink, robin's egg blue on blue and
red on red. i could see lots of fun stuff!!
this next card is made with my favorite bamboo stamp by hero arts... i embossed it in forest twinkle by judikins. when you emboss with the "twinkle" powders make sure you don't heat set too long.. or else the shimmery part of the twinkle melts. when you heat set for just the right amount of time, it looks soooooo good! the cherry blossom is by memory box.
this next card is made with a fun collage. i stamped the blossom and heat set it in detail gold. i then took a background kimono print and stamped it in red. the kimono was heat set on a mustard stardream cardstock in red and i cut it out. so beautiful!
this next card is another favorite of mine. recently, martha stewart came out with two different cherry blossom punches.. we have them both!! this is one of them. i punched out a border and then i stamped this butterfly with kanji print on it and stamped it three times in different embossing powders. yes.. i love love love to emboss. it really makes a different on your cards. when i first opened up my boutique, i didn't have any embossing stuff.. in fact.. i said.. no way, i am not heat setting anything. i am eatting crow......
but to tell you the truth.. back when i first embossed.. the powders i had weren't high quality like these.. or they were really old... and i had no idea what i was doing.. a combo of all...sigh... i don't know. but i think if you heat set.. the best thing is to have a good high quality heat gun -- we carry the milwaukee heat gun. i love it. it gets up to 480-degrees... a great ink pad.. plain.. just use the versamark pad.. it's thee only one i recommend.. the powders will come out to the true color.. i also dump my entire embossing powder into a little plastic container and then label it. i use a big circle punch and scoop out the powder and let it fall back into the container. once you heat set..it's pretty much dry! try it.. you will love it. also.. the best way to get a good embossing image is to emboss on stardream cardstock. it's heavy and it slick.. the powder falls off so much easier. those are a few tips.. take our class and see for yourself! please call us at the store at 916 487 2737 if you are interested in this class!
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