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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Hi friends! Happy Sunday! I hope you’re all having a fun & relaxing weekend. The super talented Yana Smakula has been crafting up a storm with our new Believe in the Season collection, and today she’s showcasing the beauty of coloring on kraft paper! Such a classic and beautiful look, don’t you think? Be sure to watch the video, and enjoy!

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Hi everyone! Happy Saturday! So nice to see you here for the latest edition of Weekender with Wanda on the Simon Says Stamp Blog! It’s a beautiful Autumn weekend here in California. Perfect sweater days and football days and all kind of fun things. I hope you have a wonderful weekend planned at your house. Did you check out the awesome blog hop yesterday? CLICK HERE to do the hop. There are prizes at each stop! The new Simon Says Stamp Holiday 2016 release is live too and it’s all beautiful. CLICK HERE to see the Believe in the Season release in its entirety.

Today is my monthly post in which I use Tim Holtz and Ranger supplies to bring you a new technique or idea to try. I’m using some beautiful new supplies from Stampers Anonymous by Tim Holtz along with some old favorites from Tim too. I made two cards using the same supplies and I had fun revisiting the Emboss Resist technique. I hope you will be inspired to give it a try! I love the Leaf Prints stamps and thought it would be nice to use those, since we are in Fall crafting mode.

This first card is made using the Mini Burlap Stencil from the Tim Holtz Mini Stencils 22 set. I layered the embossing with the Tim Holtz Leaf Prints stamps and then inked it all up with vivid Autumn Distress Ink colors of red, yellow and orange.

The second card was made using the Music Stencil from the Tim Holtz Mini Stencils 20 set. I layered just the pretty fern leaf from the stamp set and used Distress ink shades of greens and browns. For this card I distressed the paper a bit more, also, giving it a rustic feeling.

Here is a close up of the layers of inking, embossing, and then more inking!

I started with a sheet of Ranger Manila paper (this is the same paper that the tags are made of) and then I inked the mini stencils with Antique Photo Distress Ink and a sponge dauber. These stencils are not large enough to cover an A2 card front, so I taped them down and used just parts of the stencil!

This is the fun part! After the background stencil image was applied. I used the leaf print stamp with SSS Clear Ink and SSS Clear Embossing Ink and heat embossed the image right over the stenciled part. Once it’s inked over, you will see the stencil under the embossing. This also is a great technique to use with patterned paper underneath – like a text paper.

I used sponge daubers to ink Crushed Olive and Peeled Paint Inks around the images and over the entire panel. I like to ink darker closer to the image.

I did the same exact technique for the orange and yellow card.

After I inked them all up to the look I wanted, I used the Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer and splattered clean water over the panels. This gives a really cool effect and sort of mottles the ink a bit. Next I used Vintage Photo Ink and a sponge to ink all around the edges of my panels. This step really provides depth to all the other color.

This is the finished look of the embossing over the stenciling! You can see the water drops here too. I also used the Tim Holtz Distress Marker Spritzer tool and added some specks of Vintage Photo ink. The whole key to this is just play and have fun! Every single one will turn out totally different and that’s the magic of it!

Since there is a lot going on with all the ink and stamping, I wanted to keep the rest of the cards pretty clean and simple. I used the Tim Holtz for Sizzix Celebration Words dies and rich brown paper to die cut sentiments for the cards. For the green card, I wrapped the die cut portion around the top layer of the card before attaching it to my color layer. Tip – die cut your cardstock strips to one inch wide before die cutting these words. Perfect fit every time!

To used bits of Linen Ribbon on each card for accents. These cards have a ‘nature’ feeling to them and I thought the linen was a good soft texture to use. I added Ideaology Typed Tokens on each card to complete the message.  Each card base is A2 size and made from Kraft Cardstock.

Have you tried Emboss Resist before? I hope you will try it now! Get out all your inks and get messy! Have fun and do some creative play. I believe it’s good for us! Thank you for spending part of your weekend here with me! Take care, until we meet again.

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