The Faux Silk technique is such a fun one to do! For this card I choose to emboss the Faux Silk pieces. This is a little more tricky. Stick to clear embossing powder to avoid stray specks of colored embossing powder which will be emphasized when you mount the tissue on your card stock. I tend to like more wrinkles in mine especially for Asian style cards, but you can also smooth yours out more if you like. For the black DSP looking piece, I stamped the background stamp twice with Stazon and trimmed the piece to fit with the Love Letter DSP. I love that it looks just like a Designer Series Paper.
I really love how this card turned out! It's one of my favorites and Jenni is even going to frame hers!
Click this photo to enlarge and view the "silk" detail:
SILK DREAMS FOR JAPAN SUPPLIES:
- Stamp Sets – Dream Gardens (#114395, $18.95)
- Card Stock – Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Riding Hood Red, Love Letter DSP
- Ink – Basic Black Craft, Black Stazon
- Ribbon – Chantilly 1/2" Crochet Trim (#118480, $6.95)
- Punches – 1-1/4" Square (#119865, $15.95), 1-3/8" Square (#119877, $16.95)
- Accessories – Basic Pearl Jewels Accents (#119247, $4.95), Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder (#109130, $4.75), Stampin' Dimensionals (#104430, $3.95),
- Tools – Anywhere Glue Stick (#104045, $3.95), Stamp-a-ma-jig
FAUX SILK TECHNIQUE DIRECTIONS:
- Stamp images on tissue paper. Use scrap sheet under tissue as ink may bleed through.
- Color images lightly and carefully, if necessary. The ink will bleed through the tissue paper.
- Wad up tissue paper to crinkle. Smooth out and set aside.
- Apply Anywhere Glue Stick over the entire piece of neutral card stock.
- Spread tissue paper over adhesive. Smooth out most wrinkles, but leave some. Be sure to "flatten" all the wrinkles left down into adhesive.
- Trim excess tissue paper down to 1/4", mitering the corners. Apply snail on back side edges and bend the excess around the front to the back to adhere.
- Finish your card.
