Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Debossing, Distress Inks & Penny Black Inc.
Hi crafty friends, it’s Nina-Marie here with you today! I am super excited to be back again to share a new Studio Monday video this week, featuring Penny Black products!
With the Holidays fast approaching, I think we’ve all been planning (or already working on!) projects for the upcoming Season, and I wanted to share a fun, quick and easy background technique using a few of my favorite Penny Black products!
This card design and background technique is perfect for mass producing because it really doesn’t take that much time to put these together. I used a debossing technique to impress the design of the die into the watercolor paper. What I love most about this technique is that it shows how much more versatile large, cover plate dies can be, because one of the products used to create this card is the No Two Are Alike snowflake cover plate from Penny Black. Dies like these are a bit more pricey than other dies because of their large size; however, I think when you can discover more ways to use background dies like these, it makes the investment worthwhile.
The color in the background of these cards was created with Distress Inks; I wanted something kind of frosty and wintry in style, so I chose Worn Lipstick, Wilted Violet, Chipped Sapphire and Tumbled Glass for my color palette. In the video, I’ll be sharing all the steps I took to color in these backgrounds, so make sure you check that out!
I hope you’ll watch the video I have created for this week! In it, I not only share the techniques I used to create these debossed and Distress Inked backgrounds, but also tips for creating custom glitter paper too! There’s a lot to see, so let’s get started…!
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So soft and pretty! What an awesome technique!
Love this subtle background! So pretty and wintery
Nice cards and video! thanks, Denise
Great idea to emboss with the die. Haven’t tried that yet. Thanks for the tutorial
Pretty card. I follow the blog by email.
Love all of that purple. TFS
Great technique, I never think to do this with my dies. Love the soft & pretty look of your cards!
Wow! Awesome technique!
Beautiful cards!
Love the color of the background.
I love these beautiful background blends of color!
Beautiful technique!
Love how you did the background.
Pretty card! Love the technique!
Very pretty card!!
So beautiful!!, I really love the color combo!!…looking forward to giving this technique a try!
Oh this is gorgeous. Just love the colors!
Great job on these cards. Lovely, thanks for the video also.
Thanks for another bunch of gorgeous cards and a new technique to try!
Beautiful colour and card!
Beautiful card, Nina-Marie!
I just love how the water colored effect was created by embossing the die onto watercolor card stock. This card is just awesome.
Great technique and love the card.
Spectacular card! Thank you for sharing the techniques that you used!
What lovely cards! I really need a die-cutting machine – would love to try the embossing!
Would love to try that glitter embossing powder. As usual, Nina-Marie’s video was top rate.
Fun Monday
WOW such a beautiful card!!!
Great background technique! Love the colors too.
Loving that purple!
Great technique, thanks for sharing!
Really turned out prettier than I thought they would. Great job but I do not know as much as all of u do at Simon Says.
Really unique look!
The background looks so magical and beautiful
What a pretty background and I love that die!
Love the creativity! I never would have thought to add purples for a winter card. Beautiful!
Such pretty cards
This is an incredible background!!!! Thank you for the great video!!
So pretty!
FANTASTIC technique! LOVE the effect on the card you created with this technique, Nina Marie. Snowflakes totally pop up!
Thanks for sharing the new technique for me, appreciated
Love these! I’m realizing I need more Penny Black products!
Great technique, beautiful background!
Thanks for the great video showing how to create your beautiful backgrounds. Gorgeous cards !!!
Fantastic technique! Can’t wait to try it!
Beautiful card – thanks for sharing with a video.
This is an awesome card. This video just inspired me so much. Thanks for sharing!!
Gorgeous!!! I really love the look of this lovely creation!! TFS!
Fabulous project! It really has the feel of a crisp winter day. Love the colors!
There’s something so mesmerizing about this card design.