Loyal Leaves with Faux Metal Embossing for New At SU Blog Hop

                               

Welcome to our April NEW AT SU! Blog hop! We are a group of Stampin’ Up! demonstrators from around the world who are Hoppin’ with creative paper crafting ideas to share with you. Today we are showcasing the 2020/21 Annual Catalogue's retiring products and some creative stamping techniques! I am featuring the retiring Loyal Leaves stamp set and showing you the Faux Metal Embossing technique.

• The Faux Metal Embossing technique requires several layers of metal embossing on a sturdy piece of cardstock such as Shimmery White. You add Versamark Ink straight to the cardstock with your inkpad, add the Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder (or any other metallic embossing powder), tap off the excess and heat set it with the heat tool. 
• Repeat this process about 4 more times gradually concentrating the powder more towards the center. Have a couple of larger stamps with detailed images inked up with Versamark ink ready to go for the last time you do this process.

• As soon as you finish heat setting the powder on the  fifth embossing, press the stamps that are inked up with Versamark into the metal embossing firmly and let them stay there until it has cooled. Then gently remove them. They should leave an impression in the metallic embossing. If not reheat the embossed metal gently and try again, or to add a second image, reheat, add some new powder and press in the second stamp.
• The rest of the card has a Mossy Meadow card base of 5 1/2" x 8 1/2", Forever Greenery DSP as a background and the sentiment from Loyal Leaves embossed in Gold on Mossy Meadow and die cut with one of the Tasteful Labels dies. 
• On Very Vanilla cardstock, I embossed one of the leaf images from the set in Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder and fussy cut it. I added it to the Faux Metal Embossing Panel using Glue Dots. 
• I added braided linen trim in Mossy Meadow.

I hope you enjoyed my project with the Loyal Leaves stamp set and Faux Metal Embossing. Now please hop on over to Pat Ertman, to see what's new with SU as she shows you the Bay Window Technique :

Here's the list of bloggers in our New At SU April Blog Hop to help you keep on track:

April 2021 New at SU! Hop: Retiring Products

Scrappy Strip Technique/Dandelion Wishes: Tricia’s Stamping Creations

Clear Block Stamping/Rooted in Nature: Sugar & Scraps

Blends & Alcohol Technique/Sweet Magnolia: Lilypad Stamper

Blistering Ink Background/To A Wild Rose: De Kijkkast

Joseph’s Coat Technique/Gorgeous Posies: Stampin’ Scrapper

Mirror Stamping/Beauty Abounds: Carterie Plus

Faux Metal Embossing/Loyal Leaves: Playing with Papercrafting

Bay Window Card/Comfort & Hope: Gifted Hands Ink

Reverse Masking/So Much Love: Stamping Flair

Bokeh Technique/Butterfly Gala: Creative Juice with Loni

Baby Wipe Technique/Arrange a Wreath: 24/7 Inkspiration

Kissing/To A Wild Rose: Scraphexe 

Please take a moment to comment at the bottom of this post and let me know how you liked my projects or ask me a question about the technique used. Don’t forget to scroll back up and keep hoppin’ with us! – Thank you!

Keep Creating!

Heather Cooper

Please contact your Stampin’ Up! demonstrator if you have any questions or to make a product purchase. If you do not have a demonstrator, I would be happy to answer any questions about products, or the techniques shown here. If you live in Canada, you can use the links below to order products from me or join my Papercraft Cats team. 

Remarkable You for Freshly Made Sketches and Colour Throwdown

I thought it was about time that I did a Freshly Made Sketches Challenge at some time other than at the last minute!! And the same with Colour Throwdown Challenges. Usually, they are due on a Monday, and because I don't blog on the weekend, Monday is the first chance I get to enter, but for some reason this week, I have all my other challenges done ahead of time and I am ahead of the game. I decided to take a new stamp set, Remarkable You, out for a test run. Here is the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

and the colour swatch from Colour Throwdown:

I thought the colour combination was really striking this week and decided the two challenges would work well together:

• I love the sketched images in this new stamp set and I wanted to watercolour right away. I stamped the image in StazOn Jet Black ink on Shimmery White cardstock and used my Stampin' Write markers on it: Calypso Coral for the flower with touches of Blushing Bride and Pink Pirouette; Pear Pizzazz and Wild Wasabi for the stem. I was going to use a Blender pen but it wasn't really necessary. I hand snipped it and added it with Stampin' Dimensionals.
• The sentiment is from the same set, Remarkable You, and I embossed it using White Stampin' Emboss Powder.
• I found that the Watermelon Wonder Dotted Lace Trim worked with the colours I had chosen as an embellishment.

On a personal note, I spent the weekend with my youngest daughter and her family as they set about replacing their flooring. It was brutally hot and no air conditioning, and it was a mammoth task, because they opened up a wall between the living room and kitchen at the same time.  Here's a shot of the finished livingroom and kitchen beyond:

Doesn't it look great? They are still working on the entry, hallway and bedrooms with my hubby's help, but I had to come home for some classes.

My job for the weekend was to help look after these two sweetie pies, and keep them out of the way and happy! 

Let me once again state my admiration of all moms and the job they do! These little boys are very good and well behaved, but the energy!! If we could only bottle the energy of children and give it to their care givers, it would level the playing field a bit!!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!

Product List

Remarkable You Wood-Mount Stamp Set [139891]	Remarkable You Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139894]	Shimmery White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101910]	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]	Calypso Coral 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [122925]
Pear Pizzazz 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131201]	Pink Pirouette 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [111351]	Jet Black Stazon Ink Pad [101406]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Subtles Stampin' Write Markers [131263]
White Stampin' Emboss Powder [109132]	Watermelon Wonder 1" Dotted Lace Trim [138425]	Paper Snips Scissors [103579]	Embossing Buddy [103083]	Heat Tool [129053]
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Fuse Fast Adhesive [129026]

Definitely Watercolour Wings

It was a lovely, hot Canada Day, and I made my traditional potato salad and went to my friends' annual Canada Day barbecue! But before I left, I worked on some designs for my Technique Night classes coming up next week. The theme is Butterflies, so naturally I decided to use the new Watercolour Wings stamp set. But I really used some watercolour effects when I stamped them! I was inspired by a card by Chrissie Stokes, although the effects I achieved are quite a bit different from hers.

• I used the Watercolour Wings stamp set and triple-step stamped the image using all three of the component stamps and Pool Party, Bermuda Bay and Island Indigo inks. The difference is that I used Shimmery White paper and sprayed it quite liberally with water before stamping. I tried to direct the "drips" to run diagonally and generally succeeded, but water does have a mind of its own!
• Using the Heat Tool to dry the water, I then restamped the images, not worrying if they were spot on the previous image, because the edges were all blurred out anyway and it added to the watercolour effect if it wasn't precise.
• The Gorgeous Grunge stamp set was used to ink up the various splotches and splatters in the same inks and these were added to that diagonal swath of colour. I also used an Aqua Painter to soften some of the edges and add a bit of a wash in other areas.
• Finally, I dried everything again with the Heat Tool, went over it with the Embossing Buddy and stamped the inside of the butterfly, the body and some general Gorgeous Grunge splatter in Versamark ink, covered it with Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat set it with...you guessed it...the Heat Tool! Oh yes, and also the sentiment, which is from the Hello Life Stamp set.
• I used the new Fluttering, a 6" x 6" Embossing Folder to add a border of texture on the bottom of the front panel for interest and topped it with a single strand of Bermuda Bay Thick Baker's Twine.

I hope my Technique Night guests will be excited to do this one!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!

Product List

Watercolor Wings Photopolymer Stamp Set [139424]	Gorgeous Grunge Wood Stamp Set [130514]	Gorgeous Grunge Clear Stamp Set [130517]	Hello Life Photopolymer Stamp Set [137136]	Shimmery White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101910]
Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Bermuda Bay 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131197]	Island Indigo 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [122923]	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad [126982]	Bermuda Bay Classic Stampin' Pad [131171]
Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad [126986]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Embossing Buddy [103083]	Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder [109131]	Bermuda Bay Thick Baker’S Twine [138413]
Fluttering Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [139304]	Aqua Painters [103954]	Heat Tool [129053]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Fuse Fast Adhesive [129026]
Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Big Shot [113439]