Wednesday’s WOW! #90 – creating shiny diecuts. This is something really cool I just realised. Maybe you already know. This is how you can make your diecuts shiny – and not using the shiny Foil or sparkling Glimmer Paper. It’s very easy.
Firstly, diecut your shape. Here I used the leaf shape from the Christmas Layers Dies. Rub over the diecut with Versamark, Sprinkle over the Clear Embossing Powder and heat the powder with your Heat Tool. See the shine develop. It’s always magical isn’t it when you see that powder melt away. If you want to take it a step further you could add some glitter in with it to really make it sparkle. How cool!
I have given you an image below that you can PIN to Pinterest so you can then come back to anytime to remember this fun little technique.
Below is the finished card.
I had a small piece of the Brightly Gleaming Specialty Designer Series Paper. Before I adhered this to the white card mat I stamped over some “spots” from the Christmas Gleaming stamp set and then embossed the white card with the Subtles Embossing Powder. It is a little hard to see.
Add a small strip of the Copper Foil behind your Brightly Gleaming paper strip too before adding it to the card. Adhere the leaf spray on to the white card and then add this to the Pretty Peacock card base. The sentiment is from the Christmas Gleaming stamp set stamped on to white card and that was cut out. All finished with a Copper Star Embellishment and some of the Classic Weave Ribbon added with a glue dot.
Here is a close-up of the shine on the leaf spray. I have to say this card was so hard to take a photograph of with the shine from the Copper in the paper and the shine on the leaf spray. I hope you get enough of an idea anyway.
Try this idea out for yourself.
Happy Stamping,
Jenny
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