Heat Embossing with Reactive Inks - Hero Arts
Posted by Jessica Frost-Ballas on October 09, 2019

Heat Embossing with Reactive Inks

Good morning! Jess here with a clean and simple holiday card in a non-traditional color palette! :)

I love the retro feel of this month's add-ons and decided to use a classic pink and aqua palette for my card. To start I inked the tree from Meowy Christmas using Taffy and Berry Smoothie Reactive inks. I kept the Taffy at the top of the tree and the Berry Smoothie at the bottom. One fun thing about the Reactive inks is that they dry a little slower than most inks so you can actually use them for heat embossing! So once I stamped the tree I quickly sprinkled it with Sparkle embossing powder and heated it for a sparkly pink finish! I also stamped my sentiment with Embossing and Watermark ink and heat embossed it with Black embossing powder.

Next I stamped the images from Meowy Christmas with Intens-ified Black ink and colored them with Copic markers before die-cutting them with the coordinating dies. I layered the presents and the cute kitty around my tree and adhered them with a mix of regular adhesive and foam mounting tape for a little dimension. Finally I added a little Copic coloring to the balls on the tree and topped them with a layer of Crystal Clear Lacquer for a little extra shine! And that's it! Simple, sparkly, and there's a cat...so it's perfect for me! ;)

Thanks so much for stopping by today and have a wonderful day!

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12 comments

Henriëtte,

Gorgeous Jess, I love the colours you used. Thank you so much for sharing.

Mischelle,

Gotta love a pink tree. I see them every so often. One year we had a decorated d in a pink tree. ( four daughters, how could I not?). I made pink bows with stiffener starch, painted pint balls, decorated a bunch of gingerbread men with pink, along the edges. We couldn’t find any pink lights, (quite a few years back this was), so we used red lights that we had forever. Because they were old, they glowed a dark pinkish/purple cause the red was burning out. I would say, the tree got 50% like a few, “whys”, and a lot of male grumblings. Your tree ROCKS!

Angela,

Oh! I love this so much! Mid Century art is my favorite and so are cats so this pushes all my happy buttons!

Leanne in Cali,

So fun! Love the details you put into this card. Thanks for sharing!!

Karthikha Uday,

Wonderful and cute CAS card :)

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