Group of Cardmakers - Textured Tissue Paper with Dry Embossing

Hi everybody.  This month's technique that we are trying over at the Group of Cardmakers is using watercoloured tissue paper added to card and dry embossed before adding colour to the raised areas of the embossing.  For my card I used a Crafter's Companion embossing folder called Touch of Winter.  I don't have very many 3D embossing folders and those I do have have varied heights of embossing which means when you ink them it only inks bits and not all of the image which I felt didn't look quite right so I used an ordinary one.  I also used a Sue Wilson die called Noel Star..one which I have had for a long time, and a set of little stars cutting three of the smallest size.. I bought these from The Range a good few years ago but they make an appearance on cards most years.

I started by cutting a piece of white tissue paper about 6" square and smooshed it with Salty Ocean and Dusty Concord Distress Inks laying the ink down and spritzing and then laying the tissue paper over it.  I then very carefully lifted it and dried using my heat tool on the cooler setting.  I repeated this again to darken the colours and then I glued it to a piece of white card using Mod Podge glue.  I then embossed using the embossing folder and I finished by rubbing some Pebeo silver wax over it.  Inevitably there was some which went onto the background and I rubbed it quickly with a piece of tissue in those areas but you can still see it so I just added a bit more sponged on ink in the two colours which did push it into the background a bit.  I did try some metallic paint with a brayer but the paint I have seemed rather thick and difficult to spread and ended up looking overly blobby which is why I decided to use the wax instead.

I die cut the Noel die from a textured less shiny silver card and I cut off the star for this card as the sentiment fitted better without it, and I cut a second from a piece of white card to add behind it to make it stand out more.  I also cut three of the stars and after mounting the embossed background onto a rectangular card I added the sentiment towards the centre surrounded by the three stars.  I'm afraid the silver wax on the background embossing looks a bit dull but it is prettier in real life.

I found that the tissue paper I had was a bit thin and much harder to handle when wet, and I would suggest that if you want to try techniques with tissue you buy some which is termed wet strength which is available on Amazon and I also found a site called Carnival Papers over here in the UK which sells this stronger grade of tissue paper and I'm sure there will be others too.

I do hope you will visit us over at the Group of Cardmakers and see all the beautiful cards made by the rest of the team, and there is a Linky so if you make any cards you can display them there so we can all enjoy seeing what you've done.  There is also a video which Loll has made to demonstrate the technique.

Thank you for visiting me here today and I'll see you again soon.

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