Throughout Covid, I've been meeting monthly with a group of crafty friends on Zoom to try out new techniques, revisit older techniques, as well as to discuss art products we might not have used before, or that we have but don't remember what to do with them.
We decided to share our experiences on a blog and that blog is called:
This is our Group of Seven:
This month we are trying out a technique Loll discovered on another blog: the Creative Heat Embossed Backgrounds technique. Detailed instructions are over on the Group of Seven post.
Here is my card and I have to preface this by saying that I'm not totally happy with it.
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I applied Versamark ink randomly to navy blue cs and then sprinkled randomly with white glitter and silver glitter embossing powder. Then heat set it. I die cut a circle from my results, then layered that on a silver mirror cs circle, and topped it with a snowflake die cut from the same silver mirror cs (and die cut twice more from scrap white cs to glue together to give more dimension to the snowflake).
I will probably try some of the other options our Group of Seven cardmakers used - Bonnie's second technique of splattering with water and heat embossing the powder on top of the water (who knew that would work?) and Loll's second technique of heating the embossing powder on a griddle. I really like the results they got with those techniques. As for the technique I used here of random swiping with Versamark, I probably won't chose to use it.
Supplies:
Ink - Versamark
Paper - white and navy cs, silver mirror cs
Size - 4.25" square
Accessories - snowflake die, circle dies, Stampendous Silver Tinsel and Judikins White Diamond embossing powders
