A Pink Christmas, An Alternate Take On Christmas

 

Hello! Welcome back to the BPM blog. For December's theme, the team is doing an alternate take on Christmas. I created a mostly pink Christmas card, which is a non-traditional Christmas color. The Blank Page Muse stamps I used on this card are the Beyond the Border Christmas Stamp Set and the Country Vintage Christmas Rubber Art Stamps Set Sheet.

I used a pink striped pattern paper from a Valentine paper collection, a very alternate take.

I used a stamp positioner so I can repeatedly stamp the Christmas trees to create a pattern. With the stamp positioner, I just move the paper and not the stamp. In this way, the trees are all aligned next to each other. All I have to worry about now is where to stamp it on the striped design.

Since I am embossing, I prepped the area with an anti-static powder tool before stamping. 

I inked the stamp with a sticky ink.

I used a whiteboard eraser to evenly press the inked stamp to the paper. I still missed some areas but since I used a stamp positioner tool, I was able to re-stamp on the same spot. 

I poured pink embossing powder to the inked impression. I used a scrap paper to catch the excess embossing powder which I poured back to the bottle.

I heat embossed the powder until it has melted. I usually start heating from the back.

I move the heat tool to the front to finish off melting the powder.

I continued the process using different pink embossing powders. 

Now, I have a background paper. 

I temporarily adhered the sentiment stamp to the door of the stamp positioner tool using a glue stick. I placed a clear plastic in the stamp positioner. I temporarily stamped the sentiment to this clear plastic to help me with placement of the sentiment on the rectangular vellum.

I die cut a pink vellum to which I will stamp the sentiment on. I placed this on the back of the stamped clear plastic lining it up with the sentiment. My stamp positioner tool has a sticky mat on it. After I aligned the vellum to the clear plastic, I positioned this back to the stamp positioner tool. The sticky mat held the vellum in place when I removed the clear plastic.

I prepped the vellum with an anti-static powder tool. I inked the sentiment stamp with black pigment ink and stamped this to the vellum. This is the only part of this card that is not pink. The black ink will make the sentiment pop and not get lost in the busy pink background.

I used a black embossing powder to make the sentiment stark black. 

I heat set the embossing powder starting from the back going to the front. I moved the heat gun frequently to prevent warping the vellum.

I used an A2 die to trim the panel. I could have used a trimmer but using a die helped me in making sure that the trees are on the center of the panel.

I adhered the sentiment box on the panel. I applied small dots of glue on the back of the embossed sentiment to hide the glue since the glue might show through the vellum. I used a T-square ruler to make sure that the sentiment box is adhered straight. 

I adhered mini pink gems to the trees for additional accent.

Since there is no glue on the corners of the sentiment box, to keep it from lifting off the panel, I added pink washi tape to the corners to secure it. 

I hope you like today's project. 

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Maria Giselle B.

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