Technique Remix

I have been playing with Tim's May 2016 Tag techniques.  I did a little remix of his techniques and blended a few for my tag.

 I started with covering white cardstock with tissue tape. I then cut a heart shaped piece of my tissue tape out.  I used the texture die to cut the flourishes into my heart shape. I attached that to another heart shape cut from white cardstock.  I then stamped across the background with test.  I added various pieces of tissue tape.

Here is my tag before my embellishments.

I added a layer of embossing paste with the flourish stencil over the tissue tape and stamped background.   After the embossing paste dried I sprayed with a mix of distress stain sprays (Pumice Stone, Antique Brass) and Heidi Swap Color shine (Cherry) to get the soft colors.

Thanks for stopping by!

Suzz

Flourish

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge this week is to show off with a flourish.  From stamps to stencils, filigree to embossed, or a fancy swirl any flourish will do. 

I decided to play with my Gelli Plate, inks and a beautiful flourish embossing folder and create a card.

To create my background:

I painted the Gelli Plate with a mix of brown and a plummy paint.  I pressed an embossing folder into the paint and pulled some of the paint off the plate. I then placed the cardstock on the gelli plate and got a lovely soft effect.

I then spritzed the remainder of the paint with water and pulled a second print.

After that I picked one of the backgrounds to cut as my background on my card. I then stamped the image using brown ink and heat embossed using brown embossing powder.

I painted a few flowers to match my background for accents.  I then mixed in some flowers, paper buttons, and heart accents into the background.

Products: PaperArtsy - Pansy Fresco Finish, PaperArtsy - French Roast Fresco Finish, Stampers Anonymous - The Girls, Acanthus Embossing Folder, Bella Blvd White Feathers, Prima Flowers, Prima Parfait Flowers, Brown Embossing Powder, Ranger Archival Ink - Coffee, Prima Distressing Tool, Gelli Plate, Memento Sweet Plum, Ranger Distress Paints - Gold, Ranger Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Melissa Frances Lace Trim, Twine,  Melissa Frances Chipboard Paper Buttons

The ever generous  Simon Says Stamp. is offering a $50 Gift Voucher for one randomly selected participant in the challenge.  Come Flourish with us!

Happy that you stopped over!

Suzz