Embedded Glitter Holiday Card

November 24, 2014

Jessie Hurley is back as today’s Guest Designer, showing us how to create this beautiful Holiday Ornament card using an Embedded Glitter Technique.

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Embedded Glitter Holiday Card

By Jessie Hurley

If you are like me, then you LOVE making your products do more than 1 technique!

In this “Embedded Glitter” Technique, we are going to use our Elizabeth Craft Designs dies to embed an image into Double Sided Adhesive, and then use the adhesive as a mask to “paint” glitter onto our image.

It sounds complicated but it’s REALLY easy!

1.  First step is creating a base where we can embed our die into. To create our base, attach pieces of Double Sided Adhesive and white cardstock (3 1/4 x 4 1/2) in the following order…cardstock, adhesive, cardstock, adhesive. This will create a thickness of cardstock that the die can not cut through, and give us the adhesive top layer that will be used to mask our glitters in the next steps.

I wanted a monochromatic style of card, but I needed to ensure that my “red’s” would match, so I created a new glitter color by mixing my Ruby and White Silk Microfine Glitter together. With my Ruby, mixed Ruby and Warm Diamond, my glitters were ready to go.

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2.  Place your die on the adhesive side of the cardstock/adhesive sandwich, and run it through your die cutting machine. The die will cut the top layers of adhesive and cardstock, leaving the bottom layers intact.

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3.  Carefully peel off the inside pieces of the die that you wish to cover in glitter.

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4.  Cover the exposed parts of the adhesive with the Mixed Ruby/White Glitter. Polish and brush of excess glitter.

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5.  Remove the outline part and some of the dots of the embedded die cut. Cut the ornament top of your backing sheet and place it back in your embedded die cut. Add Ruby Silk Microfine Glitter to the exposed adhesive. Polish and brush of excess glitter.

6.  Remove the last parts of your embedded die cut (small oval at the bottom of the ornament and ornament top) and cover with Antique Silver Silk Microfine Glitter. Polish and brush of excess glitter.

IMG_5768Before advancing to the next step you MUST ensure that there isn’t any loose glitter on the remaining tape backing, as any loose glitter will bounce into your background in the next step and leave you with a muddy mess.

7.  Remove the remaining protective backing and add Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter.

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8.  Finish the rest of your card. Add your embedded glitter painted ornament. Add bow at top of ornament.
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Here’s a close-up of how the mixed glitter matches perfectly, a simple technique, but very effective!

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I hope this has inspired you to pull out your glitters and spread some Holiday Sparkle! Merry Christmas to you and your Families!

Jessie Hurley

SUPPLIES:

Elizabeth Craft Designs –
927 Ornament Set 3
503 Transparant Double Sided Tape Sheet
604 White Silk Microfine Glitter
615 Ruby Silk Microfine Glitter
639 Warm Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter
805 Mixing Jar (for storing mixed glitter colors)
(The finished card also used the Elizabeth Craft Designs “Fleur de Lis” Embossing Folder)

Others –
White Cardstock
Die Cutting Machine

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  • Marty Fishman February 20, 2015 at 4:50 am

    Beautiful technique and can’t wait to try! Loved the banner also – which die set did you use for that? Thank you.

  • Mary Prasad December 18, 2014 at 12:57 pm

    Great technique!

  • Kelly Booth November 30, 2014 at 7:52 am

    Gorgeous!

  • TracyM #6773 November 24, 2014 at 4:51 pm

    GORGEOUS card and EXCITING technique!!!
    THANK YOU for sharing your inspiration and tutorial with us Jessie 🙂

  • jancastle November 24, 2014 at 9:38 am

    Beautiful and elegant card! TFS how you did it…will have to give this technique a try!!!
    Jan

  • Candy Spiegel November 24, 2014 at 9:35 am

    Cool technique!

  • Rita Edwards November 24, 2014 at 8:50 am

    What a beautiful card, very nicely done.

  • Patti Schafer November 24, 2014 at 8:46 am

    This an “Aha” moment Got to run and give it a try

  • Raquel Mason November 24, 2014 at 8:13 am

    Great technique!

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