Mixed Media Card with Blending Cardstock

Hello! It’s Robyn joining you today with a project featuring X-Press It Blending Card. Blending Card is perfect for this project as it can happily take a bit wet media without dissolving into a mushy mess. My card features an image stamped onto white tissue paper which is then collaged over stamped/painted Blending Cardstock and further embellished with Copics and glitter sprays.

• Firstly cut some Blending Card to about A5 size. This is much larger than you need for the finished card but it will give you room to play with the background.

• Using a flourish/swirl stamp, stamp each of the corners using two shades of blue archival ink.
• Roughly paint the edges pale blue and the centre yellow.
• Stamp dragonfly onto the middle of an A5 sized piece of white tissue paper using Momento Tuxedo Black ink.

• Crinkle up the tissue paper, then adhere to Blending Card with X-Press It Triple Tac. Don’t smooth out all the wrinkles, they add lovely texture. Allow to dry well.
• Colour dragonfly with Copic Markers, blending so that the outside of the wings are darker. Coat wings and dragonfly body with Glossy Accents to give them dimension and protect in the next step.
• Spray with glitter spray – yellow in the centre and blue around the edges. Allow it to drip and spread, then dry well.
• Trim image down to suit card front and sponge edges with blue archival ink. Embellish the dragonfly with glitter glue.

• Layer image with blue cardstock and some patterned paper onto a 15cm square black card front using X-Press It Double Sided Tape. As the card may have buckled a little – use more double-sided tape than usual to ensure it lays flat on your card.
• Add a layered greeting, raised with X-Press It Foam Tape and you are done!

Supplies:

• X-Press It Blending Card
• X-Press It Triple Tac
• X-Press It Double Sided Tape
• X-Press It Foam Tape
• Momento Ink Tuxedo Black
• Copic Markers Y04, Y18, YR16
• White tissue paper
• Stampendous Dragonfly Vine, Fall Tendril, Happy Messages
• Ranker Archival ink Manganese Blue & Forget-Me-Not
• Ranger Glossy Accents
• Acrylic paint in yellow/blue
• Glitter glue, glitter sprays in yellow/blue

I hope you enjoyed learning how to create this lovely shimmery dragonfly card. I’d love to see your creations posted to our Facebook page if you make something similar.
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Define Joy – A Card Featuring Double Sided Adhesive Sheets

Hello! It’s Robyn Wood with you today sharing my first project on the X-Press It blog and I’m so happy to have been invited to join the team! I’m really looking forward to inspiring you. You can learn more about me in the welcome post on the Inspiration Lane blog.
My card today features X-Press It Double Sided Adhesive Sheets. These handy, sticky sheets are perfect to use when you need to stick tissue paper or lightweight paper as I have done for this project. The sheets come in a handy A4 size so are perfect for projects of all sizes.
The first step is to create a rosette which will be a feature on the card. Usually I would only create rosettes out of cardstock or heavy weight paper but this little trick with have you using our gorgeous Hazel & Ruby tissue paper as well!

· Trim a strip of X-Press It Double Sided Adhesive Sheet approx 4 cm wide from the long edge of the sheet. Expose one side of the adhesive and adhere to the long edge of Copic Blending Cardstock. Expose the second side of the adhesive and adhere a strip of Hazel & Ruby tissue paper cut to the same size. Trim the strip to 3 cm wide. The extra width in the beginning allows you some room to line up the pieces. The flimsy tissue paper is now reinforced by the cardstock making formation of the rosette easy.

· Score along the strip in 1 cm increments and then fold to make a concertina. Bring the ends together, making sure you match the folds and adhere with double sided high tack tape.

· Punch a 1 ¾” circle from the Double Sided Adhesive Sheets, remove one side of the adhesive and carefully set aside. Form the rosette by pushing the edges together into a circle shape and adhere using the punched circle of adhesive.
· Make a second strip about 4 cm wide using the Hazel & Ruby Pretty Floral paper and the technique described above. Use a border punch to give a decorative edge.

· Select a definition from the roll of Hazel & Ruby Define It Fat Roll Washi Tape and adhere to some coloured cardstock which tones with your base colours. Trim closely.

· Create a small tag approx. 4 cm x 7.5 cm using cardstock scraps and add a brad in place of a hole. Add some Double Side Adhesive Sheet to the back of a scrap of tissue paper that has been cut to fit the bottom of the tag. Tear one edge and adhere to tag. Overlay with a scrap of layer colour and trimmed definition.
· Using a 14 cm square card base, assemble card as shown. The tag is raised with X-Press It 6mm Foam Tape High Tack. A button tied with twine finishes the card.

Supplies:
X-Press It A4 Double Sided Tape Sheets
X-Press It 6mm Double Sided High Tack Tape
X-Press It 6mm Foam Tape High Tack
X-Press It Clear Gel Glue
Copic Blending Cardstock
Hazel & Ruby Pass the Tissue Teal Then/White Polka Dot
Hazel & Ruby Wrap It Up Pretty Floral Paper Roll
Hazel & Ruby Define It Fat Roll Washi Tape
Other – border punch, cardstock, brad, button & twine

I hope you have enjoyed learning how this project came together and one of the ways to use X-Press It A4 Double Sided Tape Sheets!

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