Embossing Paste

Hi everyone.  Today I'm sharing two cards that I made yesterday with the lessons I learned at my stenciling class.  I had a lot of fun playing with the embossing paste and learned several ways to enhance the paste which I will use later.

The embossing paste is easy to use and easy to apply with my palette knife.  And while I had all the supplies handy, I thought I'd make up several different versions.  I ended up with five card fronts - two of which I have made into cards and will share with this post.

The first card (above) turned out really interesting.  As with all experimenting, you just never know what's going to happen.  I cut a sun stencil using my Silhouette Cameo - this one is perfect for embossing paste, as it is the negative.  Only every other ray is exposed on the stencil.  So I started the card by sponging a Whisper White card front using my favorite SU! "sun" colors (I love sponging!).  I taped the stencil over the sponged card front and added the embossing paste.  I thought it would look great with the white embossing paste rays.  Little did I know that the paste would absorb the color from my sponging - I LOVE how it turned out.  The paste rays ended up being a pale yellow shade - perfect!  More learning ... :)  I see that I didn't spread the embossing paste evenly ... or maybe I jarred it when removing the stencil, so the paste rays were a little ragged - but I like the look. :)

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The second card is a CASE of Debby Hughes' card from the class.  I just loved the look of her card.  I changed up a few things to make it my own ... but it is the same layout.  I love the white embossed strip of dots on the white card front - subtle but adds lots of texture and depth.  I did make a mistake on this card ... I was supposed to spray mist BEFORE adding the stencil and embossed paste dots, but I was so excited to start adding paste to card fronts that I forgot that step. :)   I misted afterwards and I didn't like the mist on some of the dots, so I "fixed" it by filing off the tops of the dried dots with an emery board to reveal the white underneath.  Worked pretty well.

For the spray, I mixed tempting turquoise re-inker and a few drops of Shimmer paint, plus rubbing alcohol this time instead of water in my mister - thanks for the tip Rita!! :)  Worked great!  Misted a little on my card and then used a lot on the butterfly die-cut.  I added two flourish die-cuts (the die was a gift from my friend Peggy - thanks Peggy) and mounted the butterfly on top.  I added a pearl to the center of the butterfly and three more pearls randomly on my card front.

I still have three more card fronts to work with ... later.  More lessons from today and ideas are spinning around in my head.  Off to do some playing in my studio! :)

I'm going to enter these cards in the ATS&M Challenge (#79 - CAS).

You're Pure Sunshine Card:

Stamps:  Sunny Sentiments (Amy R)
Paper:  White (Neenah); Whisper White (SU!)
Ink:  Tangerine Tango, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, So Saffron, Black (SU!)
Accessories & Tools:  Silhouette Cameo (for cutting stencil), Big Shot, Square Nesties (Spellbinders), embossing paste, palette knife, sponges)

Hello Butterfly Card:

Stamp:  Where your Heart is (Simon Says)
Paper:  White (Neenah)
Ink:  Tempting Turquoise, Smoky Slate
Accessories & Tools:  Big Shot, Flourish # 6 (Crafty Ann), Kaleidoscope butterfly die (Memory Box), embossing paste, palette knife, Dot stencil (Crafter's Workshop), rubbing alcohol, shimmer paint, mister, pearls