Marleen DT - Together we so rock. 2 tone embossing tecnique

Hello Bloggers..

A quick card for today.. A friend of mine asked me just the other night if I by any chance could whip her up a quick card she could give to  her husband. She had a surprise for him and wanted a card to go with it. All she asked was that it was music themed..  

I knew strait away which stamps to use.. The music ones from BeeCrafty of course..
The Bee's has a fantastic range of music themes stamps. check them out HERE.

Right, forgive the bit weird selection of pics lol.. I did my best to try and capture the magic of this card.. 

First thing first.. the background.. its a play with distress ink in a couple of the red colours and water.. 

I then did all my stamping with black versa fine.. Versafine, I personally find is best of this tecnique due to its speed of drying and its crisp black colour. 

I didnt rush to add the silver embossing powder, I wanted to make sure some of the ink had started to dry already.. Where the powder came on solid, I rubbed a bit of it off just with a finger. (The finger is the best tool for this job as you dont want to brush of the full coat of powder, just a bit of it)

The key (and the tricky part) is to add only enough powder to "outline/enhance" the image. You dont want a solid embossed image.

The magic of this tecnique is that depending on how the light falls on the card, you either have a silver image or a black image.

Once I heat set the powder I matted and layered my card with black card, just to really make it all pop.

Right thats it really.. I love revisiting older stamps I have in my stash and trying out new tecniques and this one came in handy when a friend needed a wee favour.

That is it for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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Marleen DT - Hochanda Samples

Hello Crafters

Today I want to share my samples for the resent BeeCrafty show on Hochanda. Sam did 2 fab shows with the music collection.
Sadly due to storm Ophila, post in Ireland was delayed and by the time my stamps landed, my samples was due to be returned.
Never the less I just had to play and I made a stack of cards.

You can find the stamps in the STORE HERE

 Distress ink, black stamping, white ink through stencil and white gel pen.

 Piano stamp heat set with embossing powder, partial stamping of my greeting, Treble cleft stamped and fuzzy cut. Everthing smothered in distress ink.

 

Lustre Luxe on MDF tags, more Lustre Luxe through stencil. Staming with Archival.

Distress ink with water splashes. Black stamping.

 

 Just a lot of making and stamping. Microphone stamped and fuzzy cut as is sentiment.

More Distress ink and just stamping on top.

Stamping with Distress Oxide

This one is strips of paper coloured with Lustre Luxe and then assembled and stamped with Archival ink. I also used Lustre Luxe through the star stencil.

I loved making these. I am (was) trained in music and singing so anything with a music theme is very close to my heart. Each stamp is so amazing and although they all fit so perfect together, each can easily stand alone or work with whatever stash you have.

And that is it for today. Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

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Marleen DT. - New stamp preview and the SORRY stamp..

Morning Blooger friends..

Did you catch our Bev from BEE CRAFTY on Hochanda yesterday?? Did you see her AMAZING new stamps??

OMG Im totally in love with them. We the DT didnt get to play this time so I have no samples to show you using them, but I still want to add the preview pic's to my post today and if you want to see future samples, come join us in our FACEBOOK GROUP.

Having a musical background myself, I must admit I just love these stamps. I dont even think I have favorite.. They really do work for everyone of all ages..

Anyway.. I DID make a project for today but I used one of the stamps from last month release. I used the "Sorry" stamp. Its just such a great fun stamp.

You can find it in the STORE with all the other amazing stamps.

This one was a simply background made with glitter paste & distress ink through a stencil. I also used distress spray to add more interest and a bit of sparkle.

I stamped my greeting with Archival black ink before I sprayed so the greeting has a bit of sparkle on it too.

And that's it from me for today. 

Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.  

And dont forget to come visit me on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest or my FB page.
 Happy Crafting