{Spotlight Project} Monika Creates Scented Cards Using Homemade Embossing Paste

Hi, everybody. Today I'm having a play with homemade embossing paste and some of the ARTplorations stencils.

Making your own paste is a really good way to explore the use of embossing paste, especially as most of you will have the ingredients needed already at home. You simply mix some talcum powder with some PVA glue for a gooey consistency similar to a sponge cake mix, and you're ready to go. The added bonus is that it can make wonderfully scented cards as the perfume of the talcum powder will last for quite a while.

Here is my first card. It's actually my very first attempt at using homemade embossing paste:

I was working with the ARTplorations Stencils: Bold Florals. Keeping it simple, I only decided to use one flower and masked the rest off using post it notes, as you can see in the picture below.

I had coloured my embossing paste using about 5 drops of red ink refill which matched my card stock. I then spread a little of my mixture across my flower using an old credit/store card, removed my stencil, sprinkled some glitter over my flower and allowed it to dry. Once dried, I rounded a couple of corners, stamped my sentiment, from the Boxed Blooms and Bold Sentiments set, layered on my cream base card, and added a cluster of gems to my flower center to finish.

Here is another image which captures the sparkle a little better. I rather like the simplicity of the coloured blossom with the added glitter combined with the bold sentiment.

Next up is a slightly different take using the ARTplorations Stencils: Shutters, still keeping with the same overall colour scheme:

This time I used the whole of the stencil image to cover a piece of white card. I securely attached my card to the stencil, reverse side, before spreading my embossing paste across. Once dried, I layered onto matching red card, added some faux stitching in dark grey, stamped, layered, and added my sentiment from Bloom Sketches before finishing off using some tiny golden stars.

As always there is a little video explaining how I mixed my embossing paste, showing the texture I achieved and the usual tips as I go along with getting messy.

Hope you feel inspired to get messy making some scented cards. We here at STAMPlorations would love to see them. Let us know what scent you've chosen. It will be fun imagining!

Have a lovely weekend!

Hugs,
Monika x

PS: Mine is Imperial Leather, we've had it for ages and used to use it to treat the rubber seals around the caravan windows.

Products Monika used in today's projects:

        

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