Materials You Will
Need:
Make a Heartfelt Creations
Dimensional Dahlia Card
Here is a close up of the dimensional dahlia with the leaves
made using some leftovers of the decorative new Creative
Expressions Teresa Collins paper. The Heartfelt Creations
open leaf stamp & die has been used to cut it out.
Gather the materials for the project, including some of the following listed. The Spellbinder
Decorative Labels Twenty-Eight Die along with the Heartfelt Creations Open Leaf Die & Open Leaf Pre
Cut Set.
The flower is made using the Heartfelt Creations Blooming Dahlia & stamp and embossing onto the heat emboss acetate, the colour is made using the
Red Pepper, Sunset Orange & Sunshine Yellow Adirondack Alcohol Inks.
The Creative Expressions Teresa Collins 8” x 8” Paper Pad is used for the backdrop of the project & the papers blend in so well with the colour palette.
Remove the lids of the red pepper, sunset orange & sunshine yellow Adirondack alcohol inks. It is fine to leave the lids off whilst you work on the project and just replace the lids at the end of the project. Add a clean piece of felt to the Adirondack applicator ink tool.
Grand Calibur™ Die Cutting Machine Spellbinder Decorative Labels Twenty-Eight Die & Heartfelt Creations Open Leaf Die Heartfelt Creations Blooming Dahlia & Open Leaf Pre Cut Set Non- Stick Craft Sheet.
Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Pads: Dried Marigold
Creative Expressions
Teresa Collins 8” x 8”
Paper Pad
Adirondack Alcohol Inks: Red Pepper, Sunset Orange & Sunshine Yellow Applicator Ink Tool Heat Emboss Acetate Cut`n`Dry Foam & Cosmic Shimmer Clear Glue
Self Adhesive Pearl Swirl, Creative Expressions Finishing Touches: Crystal Sparklers or other Embellishment Cosmic Shimmer Black Detail Embossing Powder, Clear or Crystal Embossing Powder Archival Ink Black Ink Pad or Clear & Resist Ink Pad Black Faux Suede Ruffle Ribbon Cosmic Shimmer Drawing Ink: Rich Gold Black Spring / Burlap & Black A4 Card. Copper, Bronze or Gold Pearl Paper
This workshop has been designed to show
how to make this dimensional flower card
using the Heartfelt Creations dahlia stamp
along with heat boss acetate & alcohol inks.
Add small dots of the sunset
orange at random over the felt
pad but make sure there are
gaps left on the pad.
Then add small dots of the sunshine
yellow along with just a few drops of
the red pepper to build the colours
up on the felt pad.
Take the piece of gold metallic paper & start to press the
applicator tool over the surface. The colour will be intense
at first & if you keep working the colour onto the paper the
patterns will change. Work the whole piece & set aside.
Now take the heat emboss acetate & add some of the
same colours onto the felt pad and keep adding the ink
to the acetate. Sometimes if the ink is laid it can
disperse out on the acetate but this gives a nice soft
effect. Just play & get different effects you wish for.
Continue to work over the whole piece of
acetate building up the colours in different areas
as this will reflect in the final piece of the flower.
Ink up the stamp with whichever
ink and embossing combination
you have chosen. Here the black
archival ink pad has been used.
By letting the ink dry in between reapplying
the ink can also achieve some wonderful
effects. Here more ink was added to the base
layer & it made the ink form a lovely pattern.
Now to stamp on the heat emboss acetate. Use either the Cosmic Shimmer black detail embossing powder & the clear & resist ink pad or use the clear or crystal embossing powder & the archival ink black ink pad. To start add the dahlia stamp to an acrylic block.
Swipe the top side of the acetate
with an anti static bag (have the
alcohol ink on the reverse side). This
will help eliminate the stamp moving
when add to the acetate.
Stamp the dahlia image
onto the prepared area
on the acetate.
Carry on repeating the process. Here because the intense red colour was wanted for the centre piece the image was stamped just off the page to save the space & to get the required ink patterns.
Now heat set the embossing
powder to reveal the finished
embossed look.
Depending on what you want to use the heat
emboss acetate for then why not clean off the ink
from the left over piece using the Grime Boss
wipes. Place the unwanted clear piece back in
your craft box for use another time.
Once the image is stamped then add the embossing
powder. In this case the clear embossing powder has been
used. When using the archival ink pad with embossing
powder you need to work fast when add the powder.
Build the stamping up until the whole sheet
has been stamped and the embossing powder
has been added, or just stamp however many
flower heads needed in your project.
Make a Heartfelt Creations
Dimensional Dahlia Card
Cut around the outer edge of the dahlia making sure
you do not cut to close to the embossed edge as the
scissors might cut crack & chip the embossed line.
Once the first piece has been cut then go
back in and cut down some of the petals
as this will allow for movement later on.
Take the 2nd dahlia & miss out the outer petals & just cut
the inner layer of the flower out. Continue to do this
until you have at least 4 descending layer of the flower.
Take the dahlia and ease the acetate up in
your fingers to roll the acetate & this will
give a lovely curve to the petal edges.
Continue to do this on each layer of the flowers
making sure each layer has the petals cut into,
but only to the next row of petals.
Stamp 4 more dahlias onto the prepared gold
paper using the archival ink pad. Just heat set to
make sure the ink will not smudge.
This is the finished dimensional dahlia & also
the completed project which will be shown in
part 2 of the workshop & produced next week.
So please check back or just use the live link on
part 1 of the project when it`s released.