INK FLOATING PUMPKINS

No, the pumpkins aren't floating in ink, but I did float some ink on the heat embossed pumpkins to color them.

The image of the pumpkins and sunflowers, from Rustic Crate were colored using the Floating Ink Technique.  I showed how to do this a few weeks ago in a Learning with Friends video.  If you missed it you can watch the replay below.

The "bling" on today's card comes from the Oxidized Copper and Naturally Gilded Designer Series Paper (DSP).  And the "rustic" on the card comes from the Country Woods DSP.

Here is a close-up of the colored image.

This ink-floating technique provides nice shading of images.  It's great for those of us who aren't really artists and don't necessarily know how or where to put shading.   The floating ink does it for us -- but just remember -- the ink is floating on water, so you also don't have a lot of control over where the shading goes.

To create the hello sentiment I die cut the hello 4 times using an adhesive sheet on each die cut.  This made it super simple to adhere the pieces together as well as to adhere the sentiment assembly to the card front.

I like to pop-up my sentiments but doing that with a die cut script sentiment like this is difficult and impractical.  Creating multiple layers provides the thickness and appearance that you want without using dimensionals and is a much better solution.

No additional decoration is required for the inside of the card because the Naturally Gilded Specialty Paper, whose main purpose is to highlight the front of the card, does double duty when the card is opened.

Use this link to download a free tutorial for today's card.  The tutorial includes all cutting and scoring dimensions and simple step-by-step directions.

A list of products used is shown below.  Click on any image to learn more about that product or to purchase your favorites.

Product List

Rustic Crate Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [162265]	Rustic Crate Dies [162267]	Nested Essentials Dies [161597]	Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [119686]
Country Woods 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Designer Series Paper [163393]	Oxidized Copper 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [162190]	Naturally Gilded 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [161639]	Basic Beige 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [164511]
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Adhesive Sheets [152334]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin’ Ink Refill [105229]
Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [119672]	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Ink Refill [100531]	Basics Wow! Embossing Powder [165679]	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053]
Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]	Brushed Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots [156506]

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