Playing with Letterpress
September 7th, 2010
Happy Tuesday. I hope you had a wonderful Labor Day weekend. I have several things lined up to share this week and I wanted to get a post in before I head out to the office today. This card started with an image I had colored for my class a couple of months ago when I taught masking. It’s from the beautiful Flourishes set From the Garden.
I started by stamping the flower/leaf image and masking it and then the tools image and masking that. Then the flower pot image was stamped under the leaves. Next I stamped the bottom flower pot in the stack, masked it and stamped another on top, masked that and stamped another on top. Really almost quicker to do than to describe. I used Eclipse Masking Tape – I LOVE that stuff – so much better than a post-it note! I only made one mask of the pot and just moved it around as needed. The images were colored with Copics and after the panel was die cut with a Spellbinders Nestabilities, I sponged color with the die still in place.
Now for the really fun part. I have been wanting to try the Letterpress technique with some of Cuttlebug embossing folders for quite awhile now to see how it would work. Well, it worked great! I used my new Victoria folder and brayered SU white craft ink on one side of the inside of the folder. I carefully placed a panel of Olive cardstock inside and ran it through the machine as usual. While the result wasn’t perfect, I was really really happy with it and look forward to trying this again with other folders. In person the effect is somewhat chalky – almost velvety. If you have tried this with other types of inks, I’d love to hear about your results.
Cardbase here is Daffodil, layered with Concord Crush. I didn’t have any purple ribbon to match so I simpley colored some SU white taffeta with a Copic marker. Love how well the taffeta takes on ink. (Note” it matches much better IRL than in the photo.)
Thanks for stopping by. I hope to have a post up each day this week.
September 8th, 2010 at 7:32 pm
BEAUTIFUL coloring…you are quite a pro with your copics, I’d have to say I’m more of a newbie but they are quite addicting! 🙂 Thanks for the love on SCS! You have a lovely blog!