Saturday Step by Step - Peeled Paste

Hi everyone. Jenny here with a tutorial for you as part of our regular Frilly and Funkie Saturday Step by Step feature. As so many of us are 'visual learners' I've got plenty of photos to share and by the end you should be able to recreate the backgrounds for both of these cards (oh yes, you're getting two for the price of one today!!!)

Let's make a start. Use a piece of Cut n Dry foam to apply white gesso to a large damask stamp and repeat stamp to create a background resist pattern. Dry thoroughly. Repeat with another piece of card.

Add Tattered Rose, Shabby Shutters, Old Paper and Scattered Straw Distress Inks to your craft mat, spritz with water and dab your first piece of stamped card onto this mixture. Allow the ink to run together in places and dry with your heat gun. Continue to dip and dry your card into the remaining ink until it is all mopped up. Repeat with your second piece of stamped card.

Blend Tattered Rose Ink over both backgrounds to cover any white areas and dry thoroughly.

Mix some White Embossing Paste with Shabby Shutters Distress Paint into a smooth paste.

Apply the paste through a trellis style stencil in a strip down one side of the first piece of card.

Take your second piece of card, place it on top of the stencil and smooth down to transfer some of the paste onto it.

Peel the card away to reveal a patterned surface to both cards. Remove and clean the stencil.

Apply silver embossing powder to a few areas of the stencilled paste on the first piece of card.

Now apply gold embossing powder and Distress embossing powder (this one's Antique Linen) to some of the other stencilled areas.

Finally add some Distress Glitter (mine is a mix of three colours) to any remaining uncovered stencilled areas. Heat the paste and powder, allowing them to dry, bubble and harden.

Repeat this process on the second piece of stencilled card, using paler colours (I used Frosted Crystal, opaque white and Ranger Snowflake Tinsel embossing powder).

Add die cut trellis pieces and some leaf stems over the paste areas. The silver foil trellis was embossed and the stem was cut from glossy card covered in alcohol inks (colours below). The patterned trellis was cut from the floral paper in the Tim Holtz Menagerie collection and covered in Crackle Accents. The stem was cut from Kraft Coredinations card. You can shape the leaves with a ball tool for added dimension.

To finish add more leaves, some shabby flowers (I made mine but you can use bought ones if time is limited) and stamp a sentiment in Jet Black Archival ink; Wendy Vecchi has some inspiring and thoughtful ones within her stamp collections. Here are a few close up shots to finish.

Hope you've enjoyed today's tutorial and feel inspired to give the ideas a go. Try using your favourite colours and mix in the embossing powders you have in your stash; adding different types and sizes adds to the texture. You'll find links below to the products I used for reference purposes while The Funkie Junkie Boutique is closed temporarily.

Have a great weekend,
Jenny xxx

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