Page 35 - Making Cards & Papercraft (February 2020)

INKING, HEAT EMBOSSING

Colour lifting techniques

Want to create different shades of colour? You can with colour lifting techniques!

Designed by

Lynn Stanborough Lynn Stanborough shows you six different ways with different mediums.
The heat embossing traps the original
What do I need? colour underneath and the water colour
lifts the area around.
Negative stamped background
White card Negative stamped background
Cracked Pistachio, Lucky Clover & Peacock
Feathers Distress oxides
Flower Garden by Simon Hurley Using Distress oxides, cover a panel of
1 white card. Make sure you use quality
stamping card that can take quite a lot
of water or alternatively use watercolour
card. Allow to dry fully.

Place the inked card onto your craft
2 mat and have to hand the Flower
Garden stamp, water spritzer and plenty of
kitchen towel!

From about 2ft in the air, spritz the
3 stamp to ensure a good even coverage
of water. As you turn the stamp over the

water should not run o the stamp, if this
does, wipe the stamp and spritz again with
slightly less water (I gave 10 sprays and
found this to be a good amount of water).

Place the stamp onto the inked card
4 and hold there for a little while to
allow the water to activate the ink. If the
ink is fresh this only needs to be a few
seconds but if the ink has dried allow
longer to ensure activation.

As soon as the stamp has been
5 removed, lay kitchen towel over
to absorb the activated ink, change the
kitchen towel when required.

Allow to dry naturally or use a heat
6 gun. As there has been a large amount of
water applied to the card it will dry hard and
may curl up. If this happens, once completely
dry protect between scrap paper and run
through your die-cutting machine a couple

of times which will help to atten it.
Add the panel to your card front
7 and nish with a die-cut sentiment

and vellum heart.

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