Cheers!!

Evening all :0)
I didn't get chance to share my MtDS blog card on here with you yesterday but lets go for it now!! I have a photo tutorial too which I have copied and pasted from yesterdays post to save me staring at this screen for too long :0)

As soon as I saw that large 'Cheers!' in Avery Elle's stamp set of the same name, I knew exactly which background stamp I wanted to use with it!!!  Yep, the Hero Arts Tiny Ink Spots reminds me more of Tiny Champagne Bubbles and embossed on this gold metallic card in Judikins Chablis EP they really look the business :0) *happy sigh*..... Oh, and I also wanted to try the jaunty angle before it becomes history ....I'm always running behind with trends :0)

I wasn't sure how well the sentiment would stamp and emboss over the heat embossed background so I thought I'd try masking a space for it. Armed with my iPhone I made a photo tutorial because its a lot easier than describing the process...hope these photos make sense of my waffling :0)

It all started with a mask made from a Post it Note....

I made pencil marks on the back of the gold card so I could line it up on the background stamp because the streams of bubbles needed to be vertical...I know I made life difficult with the jaunty angle but hey!!... I stuck with it *wink* :0) You can see what I mean in the photo below about the pencil lines...

When stamps are this big I put my card to the rubber, so with the mask still in place I used Versamark ink and stamped the tiny spots bkgd before applying powder liberally across the card front, I left the mask in place still at this point to stop any glue residue underneath the Post it Note from grabbing the embossing powder!!

...and Voila!!! Hold breath and carefully remove mask with tweezers....... and heat emboss, phew :0)

Love how you can see the masked space in the background...

Now the trusty Stamp-a-ma-jig comes into play to get that sentiment positioned correctly.... It is easier to see than you think :0) I used a 'new to me' combo for black embossing which is the new Memento Luxe ink in Tuxedo Black and Stampin Up's black embossing powder..... Best Result Ever is all I can say. The luxe inks are juicy and slow drying so be careful not to smudge but they're great for embossing :0)

heres the finished card again to save you scrolling back up :0)

Thats quite enough from me...hope it was easy to follow :0)

Jenny x