SoSS #101 - T is for Technique

Greetings friends!!

Happy new year from Edna and the sisterhood of snarky stampers!!

We are starting off the new year with T is for Technique - try something new to you or an show us an old faithful.

Be sure to tell us what your technique is and how you did it!!

I used an ACRYLIC BATIK technique, which not only have I never done, I've never even heard of it before!! 

You can find a tutorial HERE

Basically you heat emboss a background with clear emboss powder, then drip / drizzle paints over it and then scrape them off.

It made a good mess which was fun, but I found my three colours just mooshed together rather then getting the different colours like in the tutorial....ah well...was still fun to try and I hadn't used that big background stamp in ages!

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Print Pattern background stamp (SU)
• Clear emboss powder (Ranger)
• Heat gun (Marvy)
• Versamark ink
• Broken China, Seedless Preserves and Spun Sugar distress paints (Tim Holtz)
• Wondering Midge and sentiment stamps (Riley & Co.)
• Tuxedo Black ink (Memento)

As always we would love for you to join the sisterhood and play along.

You can find all the details for the challenge on the SoSS BLOG.

While you are there please leave some crafty loves and comments for our reigning queen and the rest of the sisterhood!

Quilt card

Although its kinda fiddly, this will be my new favourite way to use up scraps of design paper and cardstock. Each small square is .75" x .75".

I started with a piece of white paper 3.75" square to adhere the pieces to. Once they were all attached in the pattern that I wanted, I ran it through the cuttlebug - can you tell this is my new fave embossing folder from Stampin' Up?? (yep I used it on the card base as well).

Here is a link to the tutorial on SplitCoastStampers:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/quiltedcard

And here's my card:

Inlaid embossing

Another technique that I have wanted to try is inlaid embossing. To do this you attach your shapes to your cardstock before you run it through your cuttlebug or big shot, making it look like the shapes are part of the paper.

In this case I adhered the hearts before embossing the paper in the cuttlebug...pretty cool effect...I like it :)

Faux Canvas

One of the techniques we learned at Stamp a Rama last weekend was faux canvas, demonstrated by everyone's favourite SU upline ML! Basically you put crystal effects over top of a stamped image and then drag it in different directions with a toothbrush COOL! When it dries it looks like canvas or linen almost. Here is ML's swap card from Stamp a Rama which uses the faux canvas technique:

And here's my version: