Framelits Dies (Labels Collection), Edgelits Dies & EF (Adorning Accents)

The SU Autumn - Winter Mini catalogue for 2012 is full of wonderful things stamps, tools and accessories / dies for the Big Shot machine.

Tonight's highlight is on Adorning Accents - the name given to the range of Edgelits Dies and the coordinating Textured Impressions Embossing Folders.  Rach who I consider a very dear friend, and I got our creative heads together one evening and came up with this example for me to demonstrate at an upcoming workshop.  I don't know about you, but I really love the design and so followed many more colour and embossing combinations.  I will share only a few with you...

Colours - Blushing Bride and Rich Razzleberry
Stamp set (W119163 / 120003) Cottage Garden

Colours - Blushing Bride and Rich Razzleberry
Stamp set 115898 Upsy Daisy

Colours - Island Indego and Wisteria
Stamp set 115898 Upsy Daisy

Colours - Blushing Bride and Lucky Limeade
Stamp set 121522 Friends Never Fade

Colours - Island Indigo and Pool Party
Stamp set 119163 Cottage Garden

Colours - Pool Party and Island Indigo
Stamp set 119175 Medallion & 121560 Perfect Punches

This is a great workshop to learn how to use wafer thin dies and embossing folders in your Big Shot.  If you are interested in learning more please e-mail me.

Enjoy your craft

Backgrounds - Polished Stone

This is a lovley marbled effect for a background.  The blending and various tones of colour, one can achieve, are magical and this background is one I personally like to emboss images onto.

Upsy Diasy powder embossed in white and mounted on Not Quite Navy, Marina Mist (embossed in Vintage Wallpaper 120175) and Crumb Cake

Materials :- 

glossy card stock, one or two re-inkers for the backgound, shimmer paint, Rubbing Alcohol,cotton balls and stamp set

Method:-

Step 1 Wet cotton ball liberally with rubbing alcohol

Step 2 dot re-inkers on cotton ball with a couple of small drops of shimmer paint (I use a tooth pick to dot the paint onto the cotton ball)

Step 3 randomly dab the cotton ball over the card stock

Step 4 with a twisting motion randomly dab over the card filling in the white areas until you get the desired effect

Step 5 stamp or emboss image onto background once card is dry

Step 6 cut card to size and assemble project.

The shimmer paint gives the background a mica fleck and a shimmer all over.  I just love using the SU shimmer paints and any colour works well.

Sense of Time is another purrrfect stamp set to use with this technique.  The colours used here were Perfect Plum, More Mustard and Pumpkin Pie with one being a lot darker than the other...



 
This is such an effective background, I hope you enjoy trying it out.  I sure will be using it again.
Thanks for stopping by, happy crafting,