Hey friends! Welcome back to the blog. Today we have our guest designer, Maria Giselle Batan, with us, to tell us how she made this beautiful card for the May 20 minute challenge! Over to you, Maria...
"Hello! I am a guest designer at the Craft & Connect Challenge Blog. For this month's challenge, they are doing a 20 Minute Challenge in which you create a card or any handmade project in 20 minutes or less. I was a bit unsure about this since it usually takes me more than 20 minutes to create a card, but I am up for the challenge. How about you?
I did not include in the 20 minutes the time I planned and pulled the supplies out of my stash. I pressed my timer as soon as I started creating.
I trimmed an Altenew Velvet cardstock into 5 1/2" x 4 1/4". I lightly spritz water to this panel to prepare it for embossing. The mist softens the fibers of the paper and prevents cracking with embossing. I embossed this panel using the Simon Say Stamp Margot Tile 3D embossing folder. I heat set this panel to speed dry it.
I inked the flat side of the embossed panel with Altenew Berry Mocha ink. I heat set this to dry the ink.
At this point, I am at the 10-minute mark. I swiped a Versamark ink on the edges of the panel. I poured gold embossing powder on the sticky ink, then heat embossed it.
I was fiddling with my project as to how to add a sentiment to the panel. I did not want to cover all that detailed embossing. I paused the timer so I can look for a gold cardstock to die cut the sentiment on. The sentiment die cut is from Lawn Fawn.
I adhered the sentiment to the panel. It was a bit tedious to add glue to the die cut sentiment because of its dainty feature.
I still have a few minutes left so I flicked gold paint to the panel. I heat set this again to dry the paint and this is when I ran out of time. The only step I was not able to do with this project is to adhere it to a note card. Not too bad, right?
All the use of the heat gun on the cardstock panel caused some warping. I laid an acrylic block over the cardstock panel to flatten it.
I hope you like today's project. Please join this month's challenge at Craft & Connect. Thank you, Jayne & Emma of Craft & Connect, for giving me this opportunity to guest design in your challenge blog.
Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!
Maria Giselle B."
Thank you so much, Maria - what an amazing dose of inspiration! If you love Maria's card, please be sure to visit her blog https://ienjoywhatido.blogspot.com/ or her Instagram page @mariagiselleb
Happy crafting!