Yes, bleaching it is. Today's technique uses heat embossing and bleaching in the outlines of the image. I started with a piece of Wild Wasabi cardstock, stamped the floral image from Elements of Style using Versamark, then heat embossed it with black embossing powder. When it was cool, I used an Aquapainter to pick up … Continue reading Bleaching
Category: Heat Embossing
Faux Stone
Here I have tried another new technique. I call it faux stone. I used a retired Jumbo Wheel, Speckled, with Whisper White Craft Ink, then Soft Suede then Chocolate Chip ink to create a background on Crumb Cake cardstock. The tools were heat embossed with silver embossing powder, then coloured with Platinum Shimmer Paint and … Continue reading Faux Stone
CAS Masking
Today's CAS card uses another simple sketch and masking. After masking the centre of a square card, I took out a retired background stamp, Print Patterns, and stamped a border on the base. Using a white gel pen, I created a faux stitched border, heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder, and added some … Continue reading CAS Masking
White Embossing
Hello. Today I have been experimenting with white embossing powder. After a visit to Lisa's blog, I thought I would CASE her beautiful daisies and add a few embellishments of my own. I have used the Versamarker to colour in the stems, white embossing powder for the flower outlines, gold embossing powder and rhinestones in … Continue reading White Embossing
Lavender Thoughts 