Happy Birthday with Alcohol Pearls

Good morning! Today we start a new challenge at A Blog Named Hero and it’s a good one! Embossing. That means heat embossing, dry embossing, any kind of embossing you can come up with qualifies to win awesome prizes from Hero Arts.

This card was so fun to make. It’s simple, yet involves some relaxing coloring, and I got to use my new Alcohol Pearl inks. Yay! In case you were on the fence with this, jump right off, you need these in your craft stash. I am not the kind of person to enable purchases, but the shimmer of these requires it. I apologize in advance. 🙂

Simple steps to make this card:

• Prep your yupo paper with a powder tool.
• Using versamark ink, stamp the image onto the yupo paper.
• Apply gold embossing powder and heat set. Make sure to keep the tool moving and not too close to the yupo, it’s plastic, and will burn/melt.
• Use a microbrush to “paint” the alcohol ink into the images. Take my advice: shake the alcohol ink bottle well to mix the shimmer into the fluid and then tap the bottle onto the microbrush. I did not do this and now I have a lovely painted tile.
• Emboss your sentiment onto some cardstock and use a fun die to cut that out.
• Cut out the background image into a size to layer onto a piece of Amethyst paper from the fun Hero Arts Cardstock Sampler.
• Adhere that to a card base.
• Pop the sentiment onto your card front.
• Angle the card back and forth in the light to admire the awesome pearlescent shimmer.

Supplies:

Flower Garden Bold Prints EH | SSS | HA	Mix & Match Compliments EH | SSS | HA	Slanted Sentiment Strips EH | SSS	VersaMark EH | SSS
Hero Arts Gold EH | SSS	Yupo Paper EH | SSS	Villainous EH | SSS	Sublime EH | SSS
Envy EH | SSS	Alchemy EH | SSS	Cardstock Sampler EH | SSS | HA	Neenah 110 lb EH | SSS
Gina K. Cardstock SSS | GK	Microbrushes SSS | AZ	Powder Tool EH | SSS	Foam Tape EH | SSS | AZ
Embossing Gun EH | SSS	Stamp Shammy EH | SSS	Mini MISTI EH | SSS	Tweezers EH | SSS
Paper Trimmer EH | SSS