AngelDream Crafts: Sizzix

Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Winter Wishes DT Project for Rebecca Baer

Good Morning crafty friends! Today I am sharing my DT project for Rebecca Baer. I have started on creating my Christmas Cards for this year, and Rebecca has some perfect stencils for this time of year!

I did a double layering technique with this card, using the Petite Diamond Plaid Stencil first. This is a fun stencil, there is three parts to it, and you layer on one stencil at a time. I decided to go with holiday themed colours in my card.

Here is the background so far...

Next I used the Snowflake Masque Stencil and some embossing paste, which is like a light texture paste and spread it all over the top of the background.

Once that was completed all over the card, I got out some holographic embossing powder and sprinkled it on top of the wet texture paste. I then heat set it with my heat gun, and the effect shown above, is dimensional and very snowy and sparkly looking!

Now it is time for some die cutting, I used a Winter sentiment and some snowflakes which I coloured with Festive Berries Distress ink. I used my glossy accents to glue it all down. You need a strong wet glue to make the pieces adhere to the texture on the card.

I added some sequins and glitter for some finishing touches to the card.

I hope you have been inspired to create a snowy card yourself and will give this layering technique a try.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Rebecca Baer Products Used

Petite Diamond Plaid Stencil

Snowflake Masque Stencil

Other Products Used

Tim Holtz Distress Inks

Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste

Glossy Accents

Holographic Embossing Powder by Ranger

Sizzix Dies

Sequins From My Stash

Tuesday, 15 September 2015

How To Create a Stenciled Window Die Cut Card for Rebecca Baer Design Team

Hi friends, today I have a fun die cut window card to share with you all. This was my first try at creating a window card, but I am please with the results. I hope you will be too! I was totally inspired by Jennifer McGuire on this project, I have posted a link to her inspiration video at the bottom of the post.

I created this 4 1/2 x 5 1/2'' card using white card stock as the base. I got out the Flight of Fancy Stencil from Rebecca's Store and the larger Artiste Stenciler Brush to apply my Distress inks.

I taped down the stencil with the RB Mini Masking Tape to ensure that my stencil wouldn't move as I wanted a nice crisp image. I applied several layers of the ink and

Once that was completed it was time to die cut. I used my inked piece and used more of the RB Masking Tape to hold down my die, (this stuff is invaluable to me now, I just love it) and ran it through my Big Kick.

I cut out the circle first with my circular die and then cut the word out of the circle, I just found it easier this way.

Once I had the circle and the word cut out, I used more of the tape to hold the top half of the circle in place and then attached the word across the middle of the tape. I wanted to make sure I had the pattern lined up on the card as well so it was an easy way to ensure I had the word lined up.

Now that this part was ready I added some foam tape to pop this part of the card up and set it aside.

Once that was completed I got out my second piece of card stock and used my embossing paste and the same stencil to create some texture on it.

I lined up the patterns from the embossing paste card and the Inked up card to ensure the patterns matched, I wanted it to look like one continuous pattern on the card. The die cut hello just floats nicely in the middle, I added a tiny bit of clear foam tape for some stability on the back of it, and some silver sequins to finish it off.