Stenciling with Translucent Embossing Paste
Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Please give a warm welcome back to special guest designer Kelly Rasmussen! She made a cool card using a technique by stenciling with translucent embossing paste. Check it out and enjoy!
Hello, crafters! I’m so happy to be here today to share a birthday card using Hero Arts and Simon Says Stamp products.
Often times I don’t plan out my cards, I just start with a background and see where it takes me. For this card, I started out by using the Hero Arts Honeycomb Stencil with Wendy Vecchi Translucent Embossing Paste. Once dry this gives a very similar appearance to clear heat embossing. And like heat embossing, it works great for the emboss resist technique.
For the resist color, I used Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick and Abandoned Coral Distress Inks applied with a Ranger Foam Blending Tool. I chose these three colors because they blend seamlessly and create a subtle gradient of color.
Once I had the background done, I knew I wanted a larger sentiment and so I turned to the Simon Says Stamp Big Scripty Greetings set. All of the messages in this set are gorgeous and any one of them would have worked for my card, but I chose the birthday message. I white heat embossed the sentiment on a piece of Simon Says Stamp Fog Cardstock, which is a great light grey color, but still allows the white text to show up.
To coordinate with the message panel, I mounted my stenciled background onto a top folding Fog card base. I thought some natural wood tones would look great with the color scheme so I added some May Arts Natural Twine and a Hero Arts Little Clothespin holds the message in place.
I hope you enjoyed my card! And I want to give a huge thanks to the amazing people at Simon Says Stamp for having me as a guest today. :)
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This card is amazing!!!
I’ve never made a background with stenciling paste, although I have some in my stash. Might be time! TFS!
Very pretty card, love the background and vellum sentiment
This is a very pretty card and I love the technique.
very pretty!
I love the idea of using clothpins, I’ll definately use this technique.
Congrats to the winners. Like the technique.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
So pretty! Love your background!
A very fun card and it doesn’t look like it would be too hard to make. Thanks for sharing.
A great idea! I’ve got to get out my paste and give it a try. Love how you did the sentiment with the clothes pin.
Fun design with the sentiment panel attached with a clothes pin. Love how the background turned out!
Kelly, thanks for sharing this clever resist technique for stenciling…great card, especially the clothes pinned sentiment. tfs
Love this, the colors are beautiful. I need to break out my translucent embossing paste.
Love the background – such a pretty honeycomb! The clothes peg is very cute!
I haven’t tried embossing paste yet, looks like I need to. I already follow by email.
Will have to try this technique – looks like a great way to add a background to a card ! Love the colors you choose!
Great background! Love that scripty greeting too!
A seemingly simple technique with wonderful results!
SO fun! Love this. The twine and clothespin are perfect. ♥
Great way to stretch stencil use another way!
Very pretty card! Such a great technique!
I love today’s card. I really love this new technique and I cannot wait to try it.
Cool card. I’ve never heard of embossing paste before. I might have to add that to my next sss cart.
great technique ….
What a cool fun creation!
Lovely ombré background.
This is fabulous! I love this idea and can’t wait to try it!
I was so confused at first because you somehow colored where the stencil was! But then I actually read the post and saw about the embossing paste. What a great way to get the “negative” of the stencil on your paper! And I love the little clothespin with the sentiment. That is great fun. Thanks for sharing!
Another wonderful card and technique.
Wow, I love the added texture from the paste!
I love the gradations of color on your hexagonated (I don’t think that’s a word, but you get the idea…honeycombed might be a better word) background. Neat!
so pretty – what a great colour combination!
What a pretty card! Thanks for sharing great ideas on how to get more use out of your stencils.
I’ve never heard of transluscent paste before, but what a cool effect.
Cool card.
Fun card.
I like the technique used on the card!
Such a pretty card! I love this technique.
Ooooh that’s gorgeous! LOVE the effect of your embossing paste :)
Gorgeous card, I love the stenciling!
Love this effect!
This is such a great card! I love it :)
Wonderful cars…pretty result.
What a fun card!
Super cute! Love the bright background and hexagons(my favorite shape)! :)
Fun project. Great result. Hugz
Looks great! Something else to try!
Very cute card – love the color and the clothespin is adorable and a great idea!
This is a lovely card with a beautiful stencil and colors!
What an absolutely beautiful card – fabulous colour choices and a lovely reminder of a technique I have not done in a while! Thanks to Kelly for sharing with us :-)