Materials You Will

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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.