Simon Says Stamp | Never Change Who You Are – Stencilled Heat Embossed Background

Hello, friends! I’ve been wanting to share this card for a long time, but never had the time to put it into a blog post. If you follow Simon Says Stamp you might have seen it during my STAMPtember Instagram Stories takeover on their account. If not – you are in luck, I’m sharing it here today.

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CARD DETAILS

I started working on this card by creating a soft watercolor background using my Daniel Smith watercolors and Arches Hot Pressed watercolor paper. I let my background dry and next dry embossed it with the help of a Stained Glass 1 stencil in my Spellbinders Platinum die cutting & embossing machine. I love to use my stencils for dry embossing – this always opens up a world of possibilities.

Next, I prepped my panel with an anti-static powder tool, replaced the same stencil on top and used embossing ink pad to press onto the paper. I covered it with a generous amount of clear embossing powder and heat set it with my heat tool to melt the powder. This gave me a dry embossed + clear embossed look and texture.

I sprayed my background with some Mica Shimmer Spray and wiped off the excess letting the shimmer hit only unembossed exposed area of the paper. After trimming this panel to 4 x 5 1/4″ I foam mounted it onto an A2 card base and added a white heat embossed sentiment on top – Never Change Who You Are.

SUPPLIES

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Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 Shop at: SSS	ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS	Arches Hot Pressed Watercolor Pad 9×12″ Shop at: SSS
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Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS	Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS	My top 10 and top 20 Watercolors Shop at: SSS