Daily Special - Technique Day - Metallic Vellum Blossom Tutorial

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Hi Everyone! Today's Daily Special is Technique Day. A real one today! Ha! I call the technique "Metallic Vellum Blossoms". I saw a technique in a book but the tutorial used metallic stickers rather than rubber stamped embossed images. When I saw the tutorial, I thought I could modify the technique. Instead of using stickers, I used rubber stamps and metallic embossing powders. I really liked how it turned out so I decided to create a tutorial for it.

Not to toot my horn, but it actually looks better in person. I couldn't capture the metallic element with the camera. Some of it shows but not as much as it does in person. As you can see viewing it at an angle, it's very 3D. The technique mixes wire works or "wire" to add to the metallic component of the flower.

With the second card below. . .I heat embossed silver embossing powder to the background as well. You can't tell by the picture but I added silver and copper dots to the background using metallic gel pen. The light shining on the card sort of washed out the gold and copper shimmer.

Unfortunately, at a side view you can't see the silver wire but in person it's more prominent and a great addition to the card. The stamp set used to create this project was "Doodle This" but you can use any large floral image. Use a stamp that has large petals. I think it looks better with larger images.

Try out the tutorial. It looks like a lot of work but it's really not difficult. It just takes a little patience heat embossing each image and cutting the image out. If you decide to try out the tutorial, tell me what you think!





Until later. . .