In keeping with my theme of using up old stuff and things I haven't used, I dug out some things I had made with stickers and embossing powder. Zoo had sent a YouTube video about it and one day last year I decided to give it a go. I must say it was fun but I had only used one of them for my great niece's birthday card (no picture, sorry). So I decided to do up some cards with the rest of the embossed stickers.
Embossing powder and mailing labels video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl7W8VmOIwI&list=LLrPw3KR7TMCTKUPVvRy-_3g&index=42
The premise of the video is to place stickers and things onto the sticky side of a mailing label and then pour embossing powder over the remainder of the sticky space, heat it and then use the decorated label in a card. I used kids letter stickers, cork letter stickers, flower stickers, self adhesive bling designs, old corner stickers and on some I only used the embossing powder on the whole sticky label. The labels I used were from a roll of large mailing labels that I cut in half. Each cut one is about 3" x 2 1/2".
These are some of the finished labels...
The finished cards turned out sweet. I will list the names of the embossing powders used but most of the stickers I have had in my box for ever, so I don't know where I bought them or what brands they are. A lot of the letter ones came from Dollarama. I also used some washi tapes, that was on my list of things to try out.
Stampin Up - Iridescent Ice Powder
Masterpiece Stamping (all of these brands I purchased over 20 years ago) - White {The embossed background is a botched piece that Zoo and I were experimenting with. We were trying to use embossing powders with embossing folders and it was not working. As I never throw anything out... years later I found a pretty way of using up the mistake, yay!}
Stampin Up - Pewter
Personal Stamp Exchange -Topiary Tapestry (the little corner stickers used in this piece came from a Dollarama kiddie scrapbook. The stickers would have had to have been glued on, as they were not very sticky but placing them on a sticker worked like a charm. I like the mosaic tile look when done)
Stampin Up - Pewter (Just a note to say the self adhesive bling stars and things started to melt when I heat embossed the powder. I managed to flatten them out for the most part but thought I should warn you)
Masterpiece Stamping - black
Personal Stamp Exchange - Claret Tapestry and Bridal, Stampin up - Iridescent Ice
Stampin up - Iridescent Ice, Masterpiece Stamping - Black, Stampin Up - Pewter
Stampin up - Iridescent Ice, Stampin Up - Pewter, Masterpiece Stamping - Gold
Personal Stamp Exchange's - Claret Tapestry, Topiary Tapestry and Cobalt Tapestry
Stampin Up - Pewter, Masterpiece Stamping - Gold, Personal Stamp Exchange - Copper
Personal Stamp Exchange's - Topiary Tapestry and Cobalt Tapestry, and Copper
Well I hope you have enjoyed this post. I will try and get a few more done. It is a nice way to wrap up the end of a card making session and will archive some of the different things I have been working on. I will work on my computer avoidance tendency in order to accomplish this feat : )
