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What do I need?

Lifting from heat embossing
White card
Cracked Pistachio, Lucky Clover & Peacock
Feathers Distress oxides
Flower Garden by Simon Hurley
VersaMark inkpad
Lifting from heat embossing

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Rub an anti-static bag over the panel, card!
2 then stamp Flower Garden with
VersaMark. Sprinkle with clear embossing
powder and heat to set.
Use a water spritzer over the embossing
3 and mop up the colour using kitchen
towel. The clear heat embossing has trapped
the original colour underneath and the
water has colour lifted the area around.
Attach the panel to a card front and
4 nish with a die-cut sentiment and
vellum heart.
What do I need?
Negative stencilled background
White card
Frostbite stencil by Simon Hurley
Fossilized Amber, Candied Apple, Carved
Pumpkin, Vintage Photo Distress oxides
Negative stencilled background
Use the Distress oxides to blend over
1 white card.
To achieve the negative background,
2 place the inked card onto your craft
mat and have to hand a water spritzer,
stencil and kitchen towel.
The colour
is trapped Spritz the Frostbite stencil about 10
underneath the 3 times from around 2ft above to give
stencil and the an even water coverage.
water colour lifts
the area around. Place the stencil waterside down onto
4 the inked card. Immediately cover with
kitchen towel and hold in place to absorb
any water that oozes out of the stencil sides.
Replace the kitchen towel as necessary.
Keeping the stencil in place, spritz and
5 colour lift as many times as you like.
Allow to dry or use the heat tool.
Finish by adding the panel to a card front
6 with a vellum heart and die-cut sentiment.
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