Welcome to Technique Tuesday. Each Tuesday I will share one or two techniques using the featured weekly product suite or bundle.
The focus technique this week is the KISSING TECHNIQUE. I have also used a dry embossing technique that I like.
The kissing technique was used to stamp the rainbow that was fussy cut after being stamped. Let’s focus on this first.
I used one of Stamparatus plates to hold the Stacked Stone background stamp.
For each arc of the rainbow I added colour from each Classic Stampin’ Pad to the bottom half/third of the stamp. Then each arc was placed on an Acrylic Block and pressed onto the inked Stacked Stone stamp. Then I stamped it onto a piece of Basic White cardstock.
When I finished kiss stamping each of four rainbow arcs I fussy cut the full rainbow.
Then I started to ‘wprk’ on the card.
For the Basic White background I used the clouds dies from the Brilliant Rainbow Dies to cut lots and lots of small clouds. These were then adhered to a %-5/8″x 4″ piece of Basic White cardstock. Each layer alternated between two and three clouds per layer. As soon as the glue dried the cardstock panel was embossed using the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder. The embossed result is very defined, so I ran my Bone Folder across the back of the card to slightly reduce its depth. I’m not entirely sure what this technique is called but I will, for now, refer to it as an embossed shapes technique. (If you know the ‘correct’ name – please let me know!).
The embossed piece of Basic White cardstock was adhered to the front of the Mango Melody card base.
I used one of the Brilliant Rainbow Dies to cut the Bermuda Bay rainbow strip and then stamped the sentiment in the same colour. This piece was then placed over a narrow strip of the Sale-a-bration FREE Sunshine & Rainbows 6″x 6″ Designer Series Paper, using Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I added a strip of the Mango Melody DSP to the inside of the card and die cut three small clouds to adhere to the front of the envelope.
To finish the card front, I added three small die cut clouds using Mini Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I decided not to add any embellishments or bling to this card because U think it already has enough going on. What do you think? Would you add anything else?
I love these four colours together – they are so bright and refreshing. Rainbows need to be bright and refreshing because they come after the rain or storm.
Tomorrow is Wednesday and that means ‘Welcome to Wednesday” where I will share a variety of projects. Many will be for challenges, blog hops or to share What’s New.
Until tomorrow, happy stamping.
If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.
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