Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Faux Letterpress
Hi friends, it’s Nina-Marie here with you today with a brand new video tutorial featuring some of the newest stamps and dies from Hero Art’s Winter collection!
There are SO many fabulous new products from Hero Arts’ newest release; it was so hard to decide what to use! I wanted to share with you a faux letterpress technique and I felt that the Happy Holly Days stamp and die set would be the perfect sets to use for this. I also incorporated a few of my other favorites from the release; Peace stamp and die set, Holiday Florals background and the Nesting Tags die set.
Faux letterpress is a fantastic way to highlight stamped or colored images, as the texture from the letterpress adds relief to the design, helping push the images to the forefront. For this technique, you’ll need to have an embossing mat for your die cutting machine. Depending on the machine you use, you may need to experiment with your sandwich before trying it on your project. I personally use the Big Shot machine, so for my sandwich I used the Sizzix Texturz rubber silicone mat and impressions plate. I placed my platform on tab 1 and laid down the sandwich as follows: Texturz impression plate, rubber silicone mat, paper, die, clear cutting plate. I’ll show you all the steps for this in my video below.
All of the coloring on this card was done with just a handful of Copic markers; I have them listed out for you below as reference:
- holly leaves: YG61, YG63, YG95, YG99
- berries: R46, R59
- branches: E35, E47
I hope you’ll check out the video to see how I created this card from start to finish! And I hope it inspires you to try the faux letterpress technique with your stamps and dies as well!
What a lovely holiday card creation!!
I love Christmas cards and this one is beautiful! I’ve never seen this technique before so I may have to try it.
soooooooooo pretty!
Pretty card. I love that holly and berry stamp.
Great card! :)
So lovely!
I love the painted leaves, beautiful.
Love the combination of elements and berries.
What a neat technique!
Very elegant design.
You’re getting me in the mood to do Christmas early, Nina-Marie, which is fine with me. I love the tag with the holly on it – so pretty and festive.
Those small glimpses of beautifully coloured Holly look amazing – bring on the holidays! :-)
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL coloring…..LOVE the gold “Peace” :-)
What a gorgeous stamp! I love your card design. Very festive!
Very pretty.
Like the way the vines are coming in
from the side and are not a full-on
design. The gold sentiment is beautiful.
thanks for sharing.
What a stunning card! Love the faux letterpress look, and your coloring of the holly is just amazing!
Gorgeous design! I love the somewhat ‘vintage’ feel of your creation!
Just gorgeous!!
Gorgeous card! Love the stamp and colouring. The sentiment die cut is perfect! I just love this layout! TFS :)
Spectacularly gorgeous!! TFS!
I love this gorgeous Christmas color combination! Very pretty!
very pretty
Personally, I’m not ready to think holiday cards, but this is nice.
Awesome technique! Gorgeous card! Thanks for sharing your video with us!
Beautiful. I like this technique and the glittery Peace.
love these new HA stamps and dies – wonderful card!
Very pretty – love the design and dimension !!!
This is lovely, Nina-Marie.
Amazing work! Love very much this technique, thanks for sharing!
So beautiful!!
So pretty and festive!!
I love, love tags on cards, and yours is beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration!
I love the look of letterpress. Great card.
This is BEAUTIFUL NINA! I LOOOOOVE Holly for Christmas! This is WONDERFULLY DONE!!! ;)
What a gorgeous card! I love the letterpress technique and can’t wait to try it!
Beautiful! Thanks for the video tutorial as I wasn’t sure what you meant by letterpress – but now I understand. What a fabulous way to add some texture to your project!
Your card is GORGEOUS!!!! Always love what you do:)
So elegant and beautifully done, love your card!!!
Like the sparkle of this. Have a Bee-utiful day from Central TX!
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Great holiday card!
Such a beautiful and festive card! Seems like a fun technique, can’t wait to try. Thanks for the inspiration!
So cool
The letterpress technique is great, Nina, and the card is fabulous with all the details!
love the tags and new stamps!
Awesome card, great technique (thank you for sharing!) and absolutely fantastic stamps from Hero Arts!!! Thank you for inspiration!
What a great technique. Beautiful creation
Your holiday card is beautiful. Love the faux press technique. Thanks for sharing.
this is beautiful! What an elegant holiday card! Thank you for the inspiration!
Beautiful!
What a fabulous technique! I never knew you could do that with the Big Shot. I’m definitely going to have to try this! Thanks for the video showing how!