Nasturtiums For You!

Happy Sunday to you all!  I’m Kim and I’m back again today with a bit of an intricate and irregular shaped card I used the gorgeous Nasturtiums stamp set and the sentiment from the Strawberries stamp set create this dimensional  framed card. Most of the card was assembled with bits and pieces of various Spellbinders dies as was the center cut frame where the nasturtiums poke out from.

In today’s post I wanted to show you all how you can create a professionally finished looking edge to you cut work with the benefits of some embossing powder. I used clear fine detail embossing powder with all of my water coloured images and with anything that I need to cut out, and there are a few reasons for this. As you know, when you emboss something it creates a slightly raised profile which is perfect for creating “dams” to trap you water colours from bleeding into another area, and it creates a “speed bump” that helps to prevent your scissors from cutting off areas by mistake.

Please remember that you can enlarge the photos below by clicking on them. The supplies that you will need are:

• Flourishes stamp set of your choice
• Water Colour paper if you are water colouring
• Scissors
• Brush tip marker in black
• Juicy ink pad such as a Versafine Pad
• Clear detail embossing powder
• Tweezers
• Heat Tool

Step 1 - Ink up your stamp with your juicy ink pad in black ink and stamp it on your paper.
Step 2 - Cover over image with clear detail embossing powder
Step 3 - Shake off all the excess embossing powder so that it doesn’t show when you colour your image.

Step 4 - Heat the image with your heat tool just until the lines turn glossy being careful  not to over heat.
Step 5 - Use what ever method of colouring of your choosing to colour the image (I used tombows)
Step 6 – Carefully cut around your image, turning your paper not your scissors. Use the raised embossed edges to guide your scissors along the paper.

Step 7 - Use tweezers and reheat your image to re-secure the embossed edges for a pretty shine.
Step 8 - Take a brush tip black marker and trace along the white edges of your paper. This will provide a finished/seamless look.
Step 9 - Add your embellishment and your nasturtium is ready to be popped up

I love to use these techniques on all of my cards even though it may take a couple of extra steps. I love the shine of the embossing powder and the fact that I can move from one petal to the next when water colouring without having to wait for my work to dry in between to prevent bleeding. Using embossing powder on stamped images works particularly well if you are trying to cut around stems of flowers or tiny images because it provides a little bit of stability to the smaller parts of images which is a big help when you are working with dull scissors…like me

Thanks for coming by today and we will see you next Sunday!

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