Sand & Sea Card Tutorial

 

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Sand and Sea Suite

Bring on the beach! Even when the seashore is far away, you can make it feel like a beach holiday with the Sand & Sea Suite. Whether you are chasing away winter blues with a beachy card or reliving vacation fun with memory keeping, you'll love the ultimate coordination of the Sand & Sea Suite.

This suite is unlike any other! The largest die in the coordinating die set can create a card-front-sized focal design or background. It can also be snipped into smaller individual die cuts. All of which coordinate with stamp images. Plus, the Seashells 3D Embossing Folder can emboss the large die cut with incredible detail or it can be used to emboss the smaller coordinating images. This is next-level coordination that you've got to try to believe!

If that wasn't enough, there's a whole collection of gorgeous Designer Series Paper, sticker sheets, Pearlescent Specialty Paper, and Opal Rounds embellishments that will add luxurious luster to your Sand & Sea projects.

You'll love letting your creativity set sail with the Sand & Sea Suite!

The tutorial below shows a technique that's a fun twist on the traditional heat embossing. Enjoy creating this beautiful card stacked with detail and texture.
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Sand & Sea Card - Embossed 3 Ways Card


Sand & Sea Card - Embossed 3 Ways Card

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  • INSTRUCTIONS:

    1) Cut Sahara Sand cardstock to 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". Score at 4-1/4" along the 8-1/2" side. Fold on scored line to create card.

    2) Cut Sahara Sand cardstock and Sand & Sea Designer Series paper with the Seaside Spray wave design to 3" x 4-3/4".

    3) Use Paper Snips to cut along one of the diagonal "wave" designs to remove the bottom right corner of the Sand & Sea paper.

    4) Stamp the bottom right corner of the 3" x 4-3/4" Sahara Sand cardstock randomly with the sand speckle image and Sahara sand ink. Ink one of the medium seashell background stamp images with Sahara Sand ink, stamp off once and stamp onto corner of cardstock. Repeat to cover the corner.

    5) Die cut a 4-1/4" x 6-1/2" piece of Basic White cardstock with the background die. Use Paper Snips to snip the two largest seashells from the die cut.

    6) Stamp largest seashell die cut with the coordinating stamp and So Saffron ink and the long narrow seashell die cut with the coordinating stamp using Blushing Bride ink. 

    7) Stamp three of the leafy seaweed on scrap Basic White cardstock with Misty Moonlight ink. Die cut with coordinating dies.

    8) Place seashells in the Seashells 3D Embossing Folder lined up with their coordinating image and emboss.

    9) Stamp greeting on scrap Blushing Bride cardstock with VersaMark ink. While wet cover generously with White Stampin' Emboss Powder. Tap off excess and heat with Heat Tool. Once cool, punch with Timeless Label Punch.

    10) Use the VersaMark ink refill to loosely trace some of the "wave" lines in the paper with the cut off corner. Scribble the ink on. Imperfection will look best so vary the width and amount of the traced line, it doesn't have to be thick. While wet, cover generously with White Stampin' Emboss Powder. Tap off excess and heat with Heat Tool.

    11) Adhere embossed layer to the matching Sahara Sand Layer. Adhere layers to card front offset to the right side.

    12) Layer die cut seashells, seaweed, and greeting to the card with Glue Dots and Stampin' Dimensionals. From the Seaside Shells sticker sheets add two clamshells bottom to bottom so they look like it just opened. Add Opal Rounds to the shells. 
TIPS: Help die cut images stay in place when embossing with sticky notes. Use the sticky edge of a sticky note to hold the die cut shells pieces in place in the Seashells 3D Embossing Folder.


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