Welcome to the NC Demo Blog Hop!! Happy Spring! I thought these cards looked like Spring has Sprung! Don’t you?
I have seen on other posts where people have taken a thinlit and they pop-up the pieces onto a card and the look is so pretty! The one I went to was Billie Moan and she said in her video that the effect is beautiful but the effort was intense!
I had an idea on how to do this same technique BUT make it much easier!! I made a video showing how to do this very thing! I am not into doing things the hard way and I wanted to figure out an easier way and then share it with you!
Here is the card I made for the YouTube video:
I used the smaller rose thinlit from the Stampin’ Up! thinlit set Rose Garden! I haven’t used that set in a while, but it worked perfectly for this card, don’t you think? I put clear Wink of Stella on the top of each petal and then lined the petals with Gold Wink of Stella. The background is the Petal Burst Embossing Folder, sponged over top with the Peekaboo Peach to make the leaves stand out. I also used the Gold ribbon with the Peekaboo Peach ribbon on top to set it off!
I used the Bigger rose for another card, it took up more room, but still quite stunning!
I put some clear Wink of Stella over the petals to really make them stand out! For the background I used the Embossing Folder Fluttering and sponged the top with Mint Macaron to help the butterflies fly! The glitter paper is from Sale-a-Bration, sorry it isn’t available anymore, but any glitter paper is great!
How did I make this simpler? I worked for HOURS trying to figure out a quick version on how to make this, so it will be easy for everyone!
Have you heard of Press’n Seal? This works miracles!! You cut out your thinlit using the Big Shot and before you take the paper away from the thinlit you put the Press’n Seal over the back (make sure that the sticky part is towards the paper. You can see what I mean when you go to my video on YouTube! It really is quite simple!
Once you have it pressed to the back peal away the parts you don’t want like the excess paper and the outline of the rose. THEN you will leave it on the Press’n Seal but place Dimensionals on the back, put glue on the smaller pieces then remove all the backing on the Dimensionals flip over and push onto your project! Easy Peasy! Here’s a picture before you flip it:
Want to see some more projects using this technique??? Once I started I couldn’t stop!
I moved on to the Butterfly thinlits and made a card using three colors!!
For this one I removed some of the colors, ran it through the Big Shot with another color and when piecing them together on the card, I just laid them on top of each other, you can see the video to get an idea how I did this!
And again, I wasn’t done! I wanted to use the Dragonfly thinlits! Here is what I made with those!
I hope you have enjoyed my cards! I had so much fun making them! You can continue on to the next blog.
Jo Anne Hewins
Michelle Irinyi
Tracie Evans Langley
Sharon Maranich
Laurie Meier
Sue Root
Lisa Tedder <————–You are Here!
Frances Wagner
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Thanks for stopping by! I would love to hear what you think of these cards!
Lisa Tedder
A California Girl living in North Carolina
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Pretty cards Lisa. Love how easy you made this technique.
Great technique, Lisa. I’m going to have to try it! Love your cards.
Good technique, Lisa. Your cards are lovely.
Lisa – I really like the way you used the technique. You’very given me inspiration to try Press n Seal!
Lisa, who knew press and seal would be in my stamp room in the future. Thanks for a fun video and I am going to try this. You made it look so easy.
What fun! I like the butterfly best. Thank you for sharing this technique.
Hi Lisa, I love your technique and your cards and the video. Not exactly sure I understand how to get all the colors on the pretty butterfly. Could you explain that a little bit more please? I really do want to give your technique a try. Thanks.
As I cut them out, with the Big Shot and put the press n seal on the back of the thinlit I removed the pieces that I didn’t want to go back in,(in video I showed where you line it up from the back) just took them off the press n seal, If this doesn’t make sense, I’ll try and make another video or show with pictures.
I didn’t think about trying it this way! I had used press n seal on the negative pieces in one of the Paper Pumpkin kits.
I saw it that way too! I worked on this for quite a while before I figured an easier way!
Fantastic video demonstrating this technique with the Press N Seal. Cards are very pretty, too.