What's Up Wednesday ~ More Black Card Drama

Ok, one more card in the dramatic black and foil style. I'm sure I'll have others down the line, but the three I've shared so far are my first ones. 

I wanted to try out our new Reverse Plate with the Hot Foil system. I love this plate and the fact you can use both the positive and negative hot foil images. No waste!

This card featured the new Buffalo Check hot foil die in the background and the lustrous leaves as my focal image. You can see the beautiful detail in the leaves and gold foil. Creating a spray of leaves in the upper corner draws in your eyes and then they shift to the sentiment also gold foil. This tie the sentiment is done with the Reverse Plate. You can tell by the way the letters are in black surrounded by the gold foil. 

This is a copper version of the design. This time I used leaves from the positive and negative hot foil images. The Reverse plate created the leaves with black lines and mostly copper. I love the leaves together!

This is the Buffalo Check Hot Foil die. It's a full 4" x 6" in size! I knew as soon as I saw it I NEEDED it! 

Once again the Lustrous Leaves set catches my attention. The dark images are the Hot Foil dies. The other is for die cutting. The larger leaves are grouped into one die each and can be die cut to get all 5 leaves at once! The smaller leaves are individual images to hot foil. 

This is the Reverse Plate. It's a smooth plate that doesn't create an image itself. You create your "sandwich" (once hot) with first your left over hot foil piece (save those "scraps" from your first pass). This time you'l be creating the image that has a lot of the foil on it. 

Back to the sandwich. 

Above you see a photo with the "scrap" foil from my first pass with the Buffalo Check die. Now I'm going to use it to make another hot foil piece so it's not wasted. 

Place the Reverse Plate die on the hot foil heater and heat it. It takes about 5 minutes. When it beeps place the hot foil scrap COPPER SIDE DOWN (face down). Lay your CS on top of the foil. Next is the green plat then the clear plate. Let it sit on the heater like this for about 15 seconds. Now unhook the cord and run it through the Stamp Emboss Machine cranking the handle slowly. 

I think about cranking like this. It's like the turtle and the rabbit. when hot foiling I'm a turtle when cranking. when die cutting I'm a rabbit and crank faster.

Once you've put it through the embossing machine gently peel the clear layer of the foil off.  If you notice some "unfinished" areas as you're peeling, stop, lay the clear layer back down, place the sandwich on the heater again for 20-30 seconds then crank it through the machine again. When you peel the clear layer this time it should be foiled perfectly! Now you can use it as you like.

I hope this helps regarding the Reverse Plate. I really love it and am so happy to have it in my stash. Now I won't have any wasted foil! Plus I get twice the images!

Thanks for stopping by.

Michelle Loncar

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Dramatic Nature's Symphony Card

Still in my dramatic black card style, I have another to share this time using copper and black. 

The card base is black but I used a smaller piece of black CS as a popped up layer on the card front. This layer is where I did the design.

I started by doing some heat embossing in the upper left area. I used Clear Powder on the black. This gives a shiny look to the image but still keeps it as a background feature. 

The copper leaves were die cut from Textured Metallic paper. It's a pack of 3 metals: Gold, Copper and Tungsten (dark gray). 

The leaves are glued to the card front with a small sentiment as the anchor at the top. It also served to cover the end of the branch and keep your eyes from roaming off the top of the card.  The sentiment is copper foiled and from the Sweetly Sentimental set. I love this set because you make a bunch of sentiments all at once. I keep them in a container handy to use at a moments notice.

The final touch are s few Glossy Garden Dots that also help guide your eyes around the card. 

Thanks for stopping by. I have one more black drama card to share tomorrow. See you then!

Michelle Loncar

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Autumn Opulence Card ~ Atlantic Hearts Sketch 699

Welcome to this week's sketch from our team at Atlantic Hearts. use our sketch to get your project started. Do what you like with it: change shapes, rotate, flip.....we just need to be able to see our sketch in your design.

Our sketch goes live on Monday and our blog opens for entries on Wednesday. Enter as often as you like! Most of all, have fun!

I have a million things going on right now as I get ready for vacation. When you need to create a project but are tight on time, this idea helps a lot!

I have the Autumn Opulence Designer Series Paper pack with the die cuts. Perfect! After choosing the papers to use all I had to do was pick out the die cuts. Quick and easy!

I added the Softly Woven embossing folder to create texture on the Basic Beige layer. I LOVE this embossing folder! The sentiment piece was a bit long for my dimensions so I just snipped the ends. The sentiment is the only stamping I did on this card. 

The die cuts are tucked behind the popped up sentiment with the pumpkin die cut also being popped and the others glued to the card front. A few gems later and the card is done!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

What do you think about our sketch? It's pretty easy to work with and I know you'll want to show us how it inspires you! We can't wait to see what you create. Have fun!

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up® Demonstrator 

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Floral Card ~ Color Dare #720

Welcome to our Color Dare Challenge! Every Friday we give you a new palette of colors to spark your creativity. For this challenge you must use at least 3 of the colors shown in the graphic. Your colors must be a very close match to those in the graphic. We give you some Free colors to use with the challenge colors. They are listed at the bottom of the graphic. 

Make any paper craft you like. When you're ready to join our challenge, use the direct link below the graphic. 

Direct Link to Color Dare #720

I got out my pack of Artisan Sketched Garden DSP so I could use the challenge colors to color the images. After coloring with Stampin' Blends I fussy cut out the images. 

Once I started to assemble the card layers, I decided there needed to be texture. I added that element by die cutting the layer under the flowers. I also embossed that layer, too. To add some depth I popped up the middle vase of flowers with Stampin' Dimensionals. 

Here is a close up of all the pretty details in the design. I used all 4 challenge colors in the flowers and left the rest of the image uncolored. You don't always need to color the entire image!

Don't you love the texture from the embossing folder? I know I'll be using this folder on a lot of projects!

The small sentiment is one of our new Hot Foil bundles. You can make a bunch of sentiments all at once and die cut the out, too! I hav a plastic case I keep them in for quick and easy access. 

I had a piece of the DSP left over but it wasn't long enough to go across the bottom of the white CS on the inside. So I cut it into a 2" square then cut it diagonally. The triangles work great for the corners and add a detail other than just a plain inside. It also brings the polka dot theme to the inside, too!

Now it's your turn to create using our challenge colors! Remember to make your colors a close match and don't add extra colors to your palette. Most of all, have fun!

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator 

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Craft Class ~ Advent-ures in Christmas

 

Our newest Stampin' Up! Craft Class, Adventures in Christmas,  will teach you how to decorate a 24-box advent calendar and assemble it to fit your space. 

This Craft Class is presented by our Stampin' Up! Art Department. It will. be available for streaming September 17th at 2:00pm (MT) / 3:00pm (CT). You will view the class in an exclusive Facebook group. The invite to the group will be emailed to you before class. 

Class price is $30 and uses the Advent Treat Boxes (#168534). The class will be available for purchase before and after it streams on September 17th. 

This will be a fun class to do yourself, with your kids or grandkids! 

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator 

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September Product of the Month: Luxe Foliage

Luxe Foliage

September Product of the Month

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The Product of the Month is exclusive and available for only $5 with a qualifying order of $75 (before tax/ship out discounts). With our New catalog and Online Exclusives launch I'm sure your shopping list will qualify you for the Product of the Month!

Available while supplies last, so don't be left out from adding this gorgeous paper to your supplies.

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator 

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What's Up Wednesday ~ Hot Foil Fall Leaves

Welcome to my blog! What's Up Wednesday is a post where I do a technique driven project with more steps and descriptions. Ready for this one? Let's go!

I was in a mood for drama when creating this card. Using Fall/Autumn colors against black really makes everything pop and catch your eye! 

I started with hot foiling the leaves in gold on white CS. Next came the stencils and colors for the leaves. There are a total of 5 stencils in the Bundle. Three give the leaves their beautiful color, one is for the veins and one with small leaves sprinkled along two sides. A blending Brush and ink will give you beautiful leaves for any season but especially Fall! This is a great stencil pack!

Available Sept. 1st

Here is a photo of what comes in the Lustrous Leaves Bundle. You'll have the stencils I mentioned plus dies for cutting and hot foiling. 

After stenciling I used a black marker to color the white around the leaves. I didn't want the white showing on the dramatically black card! I wanted the edges to "disappear" into the surroundings. Next I used the die to cut all the leaves at once. I love that!  

A new die set we have is the Tile Garden dies with a wonderful collection of squares with different borders. Think Spotlight on Nature dies but with square shapes! The sentiment is hot foiled in gold on black CS with the Sweetly Sentimental set. 

I decided to turn the square for a point up look. I popped it up on Dimensionals and tucked the leaves underneath. The sentiment was added to the middle of the square and some new gold dots were added. 

I kept the inside simple with plenty of room for a custom message when I use the card. One of the leaves in the corner was added. Note: this leaf was not colored in black around the edges because it is on white CS. 

Here is another version of the same look. This time I used Everyday Arches for the sentiment layer with a different sentiment. 

How's that for a dramatic look? Is this a style that would work for you? If black is too much for you it would still work with other colors for the base. Use your creativity and try options that suit you.

Michelle Loncar

Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator 

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Coming September 1st:

Tile Garden Die

Gold Adhesived-backed Dot

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