Sunburst Ink Blending

I created this card using a stencil and hot foil sentiment from Altenew and Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Inks.

I hope you’re having a beautiful day!!!

To begin the card, I put a piece of cardstock on a (8”x10”) gel plate to hold the cardstock securely. I placed the stencil on top and added a piece of low-tack painter’s tape, on the top and bottom of the stencil, to secure it. (I have a separate gel plate that I use specifically for this.)

Next, I put a strip of each distress ink color on my glass media mat; spritzed them with water; and applied the distress inks to the stencil using TH Blending Tools. I carefully pulled the stencil off and immediately put it in a small container of water to clean it. To clean the gel plate, I put it beneath the cold water kitchen faucet. The distress inks came off easily.

I used my Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System to foil the sentiment and my Big Shot to die cut it. Spellbinders Paper Arts has a ‘Glimmer Hot Foil System Quick Start Guide‘ that explains this process.

To finish the card, I attached the sentiment to the cardstock using Scor-Tape, followed by the cardstock to a black cardstock base.

Materials Used:

  • Strathmore Watercolor Paper, Cold Pressed, 140 lb.
  • Core’dinations Cardstock Base, Jet Black
  • Altenew Sunburst Stencil
  • Altenew Versatile Greetings 2 Hot Foil Plate Set
  • Altenew Versatile Greetings 2 Die Set
  • Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Kitsch Flamingo, Squeezed Lemonade, Salvaged Patina
  • Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil Roll, Silver Holographic Speckle
  • Gel Press Gel Printing Plate, 8”x10”
  • 3M Scotch Blue Tape Painter’s Tape for Multi-Surfaces. The roll I use has #2090 inside of it.
  • Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat
  • Ranger Mister
  • Ranger Tim Holtz Mini Blending Tools
  • Scor-Tape: 1/8”, 1/4” and 3/8”

Machines:

  • Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System
  • Sizzix Big Shot

Have a fantastic day!!!

Diane