Looking to add some fun texture to your background without the mess of embossing? Check out this faux embossed winter design that feels truly magical!
Happy Thanksgiving, friends. It’s transition day, we are moving full force into the Christmas season and closer to winter. This fabulous mixed media card features another fun technique, faux embossing. It also highlights the new Ice Skate die from our Black Friday release. Let’s take a look at Marla’s stunning background technique.
- Cut a piece of mixed media cardstock to 4″ x 5.25″.
- Die cut several pine branches from white cardstock using our 5823-03D Pine Bough die.
- Adhere the die cut pieces onto the mixed media panel.
- Cut off any overhanging pieces.
- Spritz the panel with water
- Sprinkle on Lindy’s Stamp Gang Mountain Magic Magical’s powder.
- Spritz with more water to move the powder. Use a paint brush to push color where you want it.
- Repeat the process to fill in any white space or light areas where you want more intense color.
- Set aside to dry.
- Add gold to the branches by dipping your finger into lightly watered down gold watercolor and wipe across the raised branches.
- Distress the edges of the panel by running the edge of your scissors across the edges of the panel.
- Splatter white gouache to the background and set aside.
- Spritz a piece of white cardstock with water and crumble up the cardstock.
- Die cut two skates and the accessory pieces using our 5845D Ice Skate die. (The wrinkling of the cardstock will give the skates a worn vintage appearance.)
- Lightly ink the skates with Antique Linen Distress Ink.
- Lightly ink around the edges of the skate cuffs with Antique Linen Distress Ink and spatter with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.
- Ink the laces with Antique Linen Distress Ink and the eyelets with Vintage Photo Distress ink.
- Ink the skate bottoms and heals with Brass & Bliss Pecan ink.
- Using silver metallic cardstock, cut out the blades.
- Distress the blades by tapping
If you saw Marla’s previous post, she created several backgrounds using Distress Sprays. You can check out her technique here. She used the remaining scraps of her inked panels to cut the following images.
- 5514-09D Winter Cardinal die
- 5163-08 Holly #1 die
- After die cutting the holly, use gold water color to add the veins to the leaves.
- Die cut the poinsettias using our 5822D Build a Poinsettia die from gold foil cardstock and the centers from cream cardstock.
- Cut a piece of gold foiled cardstock to 4.25″ x 5.5″ and adhere the faux embossed panel.
- Assemble the remaining pieces onto the card, adding foam tape behind the left side of the left skate.
- Ink a scrap piece of cardstock with Antique Linen Distress Ink.
- Stamp the sentiment using Cinnamon Ink and our 37033 Holly and Cheer Stamp set.
- Die cut the sentiment with the coordinating die and use the die to cut two more pieces for dimension.
- Adhere all of the sentiment layers together and adhere to the completed card.
Thank you so much for stopping by. We hope your upcoming holiday season is filled with peace, joy and love.