March Group of Seven Cardmakers Post - Product Focus: Embossing Pastes

The Group of Seven Cardmakers are playing with embossing pastes this month, either through stencils, creating backgrounds or maybe you have some creative ways to use it?  There are lots of embossing paste video links over at the GO7 blog as well as on YouTube to inspire you!

I decided to use a stencil with the texture embossing paste to create a rocky beach.

I used the Pool Water Stencil from Papertrey Ink and Granite Distress Texture Paste from Ranger. I stenciled over a piece of Robins Egg Bazzill card and let it dry overnight. 

Here are a few photos of the stenciling.

The Pool Water Stencil set has 2 layers, but I just used one of them for my background.  I laid the stencil over the Robins Egg card panel and put masking tape along all the edges to hold it in place.

I've had this Texture Paste for at least 6 months and never opened it - but I have found that pastes dry up if you've had them too long, even if they haven't been opened.  

SO this paste was pretty thick and dry looking - but I thought, what the heck, I'll dig out clumps and see if it will smooth out as I spread it - and it did!

 

(I also threw out about 6 other containers of pastes I've had too long and were completely dried up!) 

I kept adding more paste over the stencil until all the spaces were filled and it was as smooth as I could get it over each section of the stencil.   Smooth like stones! 

I removed the stencil and washed it and the palette knife immediately.  I left the panel to dry overnight.

The next day, I used a black POSCA pen for the splatter, a no brand die set for the ocean waves, and the Day at the Beach die set from Spellbinders for the woman on the towel. The die cuts are up on foam dots.  The sentiment is from Summer Sentiments Essentials by Ellen Hutson.

For my second card I used Clear Crackle Texture Paste on  die cut pieces of a rooster and a die cut fence instead of through a stencil.  I also sponged over the fence when the crackle was dry, with Lost Shadow Ranger Distress ink to make it look weathered along with the crackle.

The black streaks on the rooster were caused by some dried black paste that was on the very edge of my palette knife from long ago - but I left it as I think it added more visual texture to the 'feathers' of the chicken - happy accident(?)

This Clear Crackle texture paste was also a bit dried out but it was spreadable so off I went to spread it over all of the pieces!

I used colored card for the head and the feet dies. I used Tombow Glue to attach the pieces together, as it is thicker glue and grabbed the dry crackle.

We hope you will be inspired to play with your embossing pastes and if you create something, please link up your card over at the Group of 7 Cardmakers blog where you will also find inspiration from the rest of the GO7!  We'd love to come see what you make!

FYI -  I had surgery on my right shoulder for a torn rotator cuff on March 26th and I'm 6 weeks in a sling so can't stamp or leave comments on your blogs for a bit!

Also sending my beach card to:

NBUS  

First time using the ocean wave dies and .

Stencil Fun Challenge

with optional splatters  ends 3/30

Sending my Rooster card to:

Double D Challenges

Birds   ends 3/30

Girls Just Want to Have Sun
Stamps: Summer sentiments - Essentials by Ellen Hutson.(retired)
Ink: Nocturne - Versafine Clair.
Paper: Robins Egg - Bazzill, White - PTI, DP Beach Vibes 6x6 pad - Honey Bee.
Other Supplies: Pool Water stencil - PTI, Day at the Beach Die - Spellbinders, Ocean Wave dies - no brand/Amazon, Black POSCA Pen, foam dots, palette knife.

Not Enough Coffee

Stamps:  Big Grumpy Cat - Taylored Expressions.

Ink:  Nocturne - Versafine Clair, Ranger Distress Lost Shadow.

Paper:  White, Pure Poppy, True Black, Summer Sunrise - PTI, DP Brioche - Memory Box.

Other Supplies:  Feathered Friends 20 (Rooster), Picket Fence Die - PTI, Clear Crackle Texture Paste - Prima, palette knife, Enamel Dots - Altenew, Tombow Glue.