Hi Everyone!
So many of my crafty friends are off in Arizona right now visiting Creativation – one day I hope I’ll be able to join! Were you one of the lucky ones? Instead I’m home for the long weekend and the temperature is currently 16 F with a low of 6 F tonight!! Brrrrrr!
I’m also over on the Topflight Stamps blog today with a love themed card that uses some of my favorite brands from Topflight to create a monochromatic clean and simple look, featuring embossing powder overstamping.
To create my card, I first stamped the Darkroom Door Love Word Block stamp onto white cardstock with embossing ink. I then heat embossed in Emerald Creek Rita Barakat Kiss of the Fairy embossing powder. It’s chunky so it really brings out the big sentiment letters well. I then die cut the stamp with a stitched rectangle die just slightly smaller than the image. I also used the same die to cut some pink craft foam. I love this foam – it’s about 1/8″ thick so you get some good dimension and it really lets the color of the foam peep out if you want it to. It’s also self adhesive. I adhered the panel onto a white card base.
I popped the entire card into my MISTI and arranged several of the butterflies from For the Love of Stamps Flutterby Wishes onto the embossed panel. I then picked them up with the MISTI door and stamped twice in Midnight ink by Catherine Pooler. The inked images overlay the cardstock between the embossing and while the embossing resists a little, with this black ink, it actually colors the EP a little. Even if it fully resists, your eyes will subconsciously fill in the gaps in the image!
My sentiment is by Studio Light (which comes in a set of three) die cut from gold mirror cardstock. I also die cut it again from the same pink fun foam and glued it together with liquid glue and then added it to the card. As a finishing touch, I added some Catherine Pooler Inspiration Point sequins and a few dots of Nuvo Aztec Gold Glitter Accents to tie in the gold die cut.
I hope you’ll give this overstamping technique a try!
Jenny x
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