Sparkly Foliage Accent on Black Card with Heat-Set Embossing

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Create a striking black card background by stamping foliage elements with sticky ink pad and heat-setting them with wow powder. This technique adds dimension and sparkle to your card base, which can then be layered with additional design elements.

You will need

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Step by step

1. Take a piece of black card stock as your base. ▶ watch 15:45
2. Apply sticky ink pad to your card, then stamp foliage elements from the reflection stamp set in a scattered arrangement. ▶ watch 16:00
3. Sprinkle wow powder (be bold colour) over the stamped images while the ink is still wet. ▶ watch 16:45
4. Heat-set the powder with a heat gun, keeping the tool off the card until it reaches the right temperature, then apply heat until the powder becomes sparkly and opaque. ▶ watch 19:15
5. Set the card aside to cool and use as a backing layer for your finished design. ▶ watch 19:30

Tips from the show

• Keep the heat gun off your card until it reaches the correct temperature to minimise lumps and bumps.
• The foliage elements can be used in a non-traditional way as accents on the back of cards, not just as traditional silhouettes.

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