All kinds of bling! ( Powderless embossing, Freehand silver details & Embellishing gems,)

I've been craving rich red & bling lately. So here's both combined in a little gift box & card ensemble.

Techniques/Schtuff featured in this post:

• Powderless embossing (glaze pen)
• Moist Kissing for a...
  
• ...1 layer 3D Fabulous Flower
• Embellishing gems
  
• Free hand Glue pen embossing
• Painting with a Zig Painty
• Using Vintage jewelery accents

This 3 inch gift box & the main card has both regular embossing & powderless embossing. The regular embossing is done with SU's Stitched background stamp tinted versamark pad & clear embossing powder, (but craft ink in tone on tone would work just as well.) Powderless embossing is a 10 times easier way to add texture and a little sheen. I was going to write a tutorial, but it's too easy. ..

You won't believe how basic Powderless embossing is:

1. Stamp an image
2. Colour (or go over) areas with a glaze pen
   

Laughably simple, huh? I've only tried the Sakura clear glaze pen for this (me lovesis it precious!) It adds a neat silk-like sheen that has a hint of shininess. Goes on super smoothly and dries quickly.


The flower is done by moist kissing Floral background onto Fabulous Flowers. Here's a tutorial on how to make this particular flower (moist kissing & how-to make it 3D with just one layer.) The flower is matted here with vellum cardstock that's edged with silver using a Zig Painty pen.

Bling Bling Baby:

Embellishing gems: I got these gems from Mary the marvelous. :0) I added three to this card, but I wanted to make them 'over the top.' I had my zigpainty out from doing the stem, so I drew a little silver flower around 'em. The petals on the flower are filled in with the gold end of the Zig Painty & then the whole flower is outlined with a Sakura glitter pen (clear.)

Free hand Glue pen embossing: The stem feels gem-ish to me too. It is just doodled on (the outline) with a glue pen and embossed in silver embossing powder. I was happy with the way the bumps from the embossed background showed through when I filled in the leaves with the Zip Painty pen. Click the pic above to see a close view of the bumpies. :0) (Glue pen embossing tutorial here.)



This vintage jewelery accent is actually a shoe clip I've had for a long time. It is clipped onto a band of organza (that was white, but I wanted silver so I coloured it with a dollar-store marker.) The weight of the clip required a pop-up glue dot (holds perfectly.) I'm thinkin' this'd be a fun way to use old clip on earrings too. Garage sales here I come! :0)




Hope you have a happy day, :0)