Faux Glass Technique Card Class

1. Faux Glass Technique Cad Class Introduction: Welcome to the glass technique card class. I absolutely love using double-sided tape with glitter. It makes some beautiful, effective wow cards. And in this class we're gonna take that glitter and we're going to swap it with some embossing glazes. And it creates a really beautiful glass-like look, which is why I called the class for glass technique. Let me show you what we're gonna be working on. So these are the cars were going to be creating in this class. We're gonna be creating three different card designs. This is the class sample. This is the one that I'm actually demoing. After doing the sample, I got to a order of the new embossing glaze colors that have just been newly released. So rather than show you, showing you exactly the same as a sample, I just swap the colors a little bit so you see the same design just with a different color change. Sometimes that's inspiring. Lot of times people just see one color combination and think it can only be that. So it's nice to be able to see the same design with different color combos. This class comes with a supply list. I will list everything that I've used for both cards. Those supplies are linked to where you can find them and have them shipped directly to your door if you choose. As you can see by swapping out the glitters with embossing glazes, we get a beautiful textured but glossy look. We also have some that have a stamped background. And because of the glaze, you're able to see that background through there. This class or this card here, we're going to swap one of the glazes for glitter. So you're going to have a combination of the glitter plus the glaze, which gives it a beautiful texture. Let's go create. 2. Roses Card: Prep & Die cut Image Piece: This is the first card that we're going to make in this class. And the very first thing we need to do is we need to prep our front panel and add our tape. That's what we're gonna do here. So let's put that there. I'm going to take the backing off my double-sided tape here, trying not to touch it as much as possible if you happen to touch it, we're not going to worry about it. But sometimes it does affect the way your products sticks to the double-sided tape. So just be aware of that. Typically if there's an area that you need to touch, we keep the I keep the backings that I peel off and I will touch that down if I need to hold something in place and you see me holding it with a backing. It's Holden, I'm not touching the tape. I've got all this exposed tape here. I need to remove it. I'm going to take my mat here and I'm going to use an exacto knife along the edge. We're going to keep this and likely will be using it in the next step. If we don't use it in the next step, I'll typically use those pieces to glue cars together to do different things with so I never throw them away because it's kind of a waste to tape. This tape is amazing, but it's not inexpensive. So anytime you can reuse it, That's always good. There's a little sliver there that we want. Let's move that to the side, moved out to the side, make sure this has got some good contact. Then this is the die set that I'm going to use. And in particular this one right here. I'm going to put that against the tape and then we're gonna run it through our machine. Now because this is tape backing, you can't take anything to it. I have yet to find anything that will actually stick to that and hold something in place. So you pretty much have to put it where you want it to go, flip it over and hope for the best. This particular one I can see the edge of the die. So I'm just making sure that a little bit of the dye is showing. You want to be, you want to be cutting against the tape backing. That's the way this technique works. We're going to take this out of here, move the machine out of the way. Before we take that die out, we're going to be using these little tape pieces here. The first thing I want to do is I want to tape along this side here. What that's gonna do is it's going to keep all of those little pieces along the side in the off chance that it has cut through. Now. Often you won't get it cut all the way through, but there are some little bits and pieces that sometimes like to cut all the way through. So that's what these little pieces of tape or for is to hold them in place so they don't fall out while you're doing the technique. This a little bit short. There's a leaf here that is coming over the side, so I just want to hold it in place. If by chance something falls out. It's not a huge deal. For instance, little bit came out here when I was doing the sample. And chances are you didn't see it until they pointed it out. So the other option is to fix it. If it's fallen out, you can put some tape behind it, put one of the glaze colors and then put a little bit of white card stock behind it to hide it a little bit as well. That works. I'm just going to make sure to put those in place. We're leaving the backing on, we're going to use that later. We'll use it to glue the car together. Then as we're removing this, we're checking to see if any pieces come out. Now I do have this one little piece here that came out from there. What I'm going to do is I'm going to OK it out with my epic and I'm just going to put it back in. Hopefully it stays. If it doesn't know, it's not going to stick to that tape there. If it doesn't, there's worse things in the world. It's not a huge deal and chances are whoever you give your cards to or not gonna see that unless you pointed out the other thing you could do is you could trim it down, but I'm gonna leave it. We've got our piece ready for the next step. The next step is to paint with the glazes. I'll see you in the next video and we'll do it there. 3. Roses Card: Embossing Glaze Application: All right, We've got our piece here and we're ready to start painting or coloring or roses in with our embossing glaze. Now, these are the colors that I used for the card sample. Villainous potion, kitsch, flamingo, saltwater, taffy, drastic wilderness and peeled paint. I just came up with some new colors. So I'm going to take those two out and I'm going to incorporate the new colors. And what I'm done with me today, I'll have all the colors for which ones? For the ones that I've used on the supplier list. But just to see the difference in the colors, I really liked those, that combination together. This purple is just a little bit lighter. And then we've got two pinks rather than one that is like a peachy color. So that's what we're gonna do for this one here. I'm going to put this to the side. You're going to need a pair of tweezers that you hold close that has a really has a really pointed tip to it. And we're going to pick all of the pieces out for the leaves. This is one of those things. It does get a little bit tedious. But the effect is amazing. The easiest way to do it is to take one of the pointed ends of your tweezers, put it underneath the backing and then pick it up. Obviously, the more intricate die you have, the more detail There's going to be, the longer it's going to take. But it's one of those things that I don't mind this process. I loved the way it looks at the end. I find it calming, satisfying, mesmerizing whatever you want to use to be pulling all these pieces off. My husband walked in on me creating one of the samples media. It was like There's no way I could do that as too tedious. It's funny because he's in construction and that's why he doesn't like doing finishing work. It's too too tedious. He'd rather rather do the foundations and build the walls. Almost have all the leaf pieces off. Now some of the pieces are a little bit harder to see than others. If by chance you're not sure if you've taken a backing off, there's a super easy way to check. You just take the tip of your tweezers and you'll be able to feel the sticky the tape. If by chance you haven't taken it off, it won't. You'll feel the difference totally. Oops. I didn't intend to take that branch off. And sometimes you can put the pieces back, but I'll tell you right now, often when you put the pieces back, it has lifted up a little bit and you'll get a little bit of powder underneath there. So just be aware of that. I'm going to put the powder over the whole thing. It is going to stick to the backing. It just does. There's no way to get around that. I'm going to take this excess, put it back in the container. Anytime you see me here, this off camera, this is what I'm doing. And it's just taking all the powder off of the paper. For this particular part, I'm still going to be using the same color. But this is especially important when you're going to a different color because we don't want to be contaminating our powders. So I'm gonna take a piece of that backing. I just have a piece here that I rip off pieces every time I have a new color, I use a new piece. And I'm going to use a circular motion. I'm going to burnish that powder onto that tape and that makes sure that it has really good contact with the tape. This I'm just tossing in the garbage because I don't need it anymore. And then I'm going to take a brush and brush off the excess. If you have a little bit of powder that is still sticking to that backing, don't worry about it. But what I did find without burnishing it, if you go and brush your backing, you start taking up some other powder off of your leaves. And we would like to have as much powder as possible on there. So this also goes in that container. My paper up because the next color is going to be a different one. Then I'm going to use my heat gun and I'm gonna melt it. It was probably pretty hard to see on camera the the heat or the powder melting, but it was easier to see in person. Now I'm gonna do the branches, I'm gonna do it in a darker green. This particular one here is stuck to the flower. So I'm just going to use my exact a knife and cut it there so that I have a green branch, branch and the flower is a different color. Here we go. I would've done that branch, but the tape already came off. This particular piece here. When I put the tape off, I must have pulled some card stock off with it because it's not the powder didn't stick to it. And I can see that there is no backing there. I'm going to leave that if by chance that bothers you, you could take a glue pen at the end and you can put some powder there and fix it. There we go. That one there. There's only two different sections that have that color. So I just put it over those things. There's no point in pouring it over areas that there's nothing for it to stick to take another piece of card stock and burnish that in. Then I'm going to brush the excess off. This color. There was very little. That's okay. When I'm cleaning that paper off by flicking it, typically I'm doing it right over top of my garbage cans so that I'm not making a big mess. Just a little tip. Typically when I do this technique, I work from my dark colors to my light colors. These are especially those two are all the same darkness. So it's not quite as vital. But when I'm doing this technique, I worked from dark to light. You'll notice, especially if you have some really light colors, sometimes you'll get a few flecks of the dark powder in there and it just affects it. And especially like this background, we're gonna be doing some clear powder to do the background. And I don't want to have drops of or dots of purple, pink and stuff like that in there. This one here, I'm gonna do the purple first and I'm just doing some of the outer petals from my flowers. You could go ahead and do your flowers all one color. Absolutely. I just thought it would look pretty with a few different colors from dark to light going into the center. Then you may noticed different layers. Like I have some greens here that are just kind of finally in the grooves of the tape. I don't worry about it. Nothing I can do about it. It just happens. So I'm gonna go with it, then heat it. So you know what to do now with the different tape backings, the different colors. I'm going to be fast-forwarding the different sections and gesturing, showing you the heat embossing. 4. Roses Card: Assembly: Alright, so my pieces completely done. I am going to take a glue pen here and just quickly put a little bit of glue and fix that one area because some of the other colors have stuck to it. So I just wanted to show you how that is done. And there was one little part right there below the other flower that got missed because of the wet glue. I'm not going to burnish this. You see how it got a little bit dirty because of the other powders when you're using embossing powder with this tape. When the embossing powder melts, it does expose a little bit of the tape. And this is why we go from dark to light. Because if you have a dark color and you have a light color on top of it, it's a lot harder to see than it is for seeing a dark color on a light color. Sorry, I lost my train of thought there. Alright. Here we go. I loved the difference between the two color combinations. Neither one is right or wrong, just personal preference, but I loved the brightness of those, of that new pink and that new purple. Now let's glue our card together. I've got everything here already. Pre-cut. The sizes will be on the supply list. You could add a sentiment to the front of this if you want. Or you could just put a sentiment in the sorry, the inside of the card. Typically I don't add sentiments to card until I'm ready to send them to someone. Because in my opinion, it's annoying to need a birthday card and have a thinking of you, Carter, vice versa or whatever. So I usually make cards still put sentiments on them and wait until I need to actually use them. This tape is going to stick right away. So what I'm gonna do is hold my card upside down and then glue the part with the liquid glue because it has some movement to it. And I want to wait until I know exactly where it's going to go and then I will put that down there. This does need to be held in a little bit, but we'll do that in a second. But there you go. First card is done in two different color schemes. Love them with you in the next video. 5. Butterfly Card: Prep & Die cut Image Piece: Here is our second card. So the technique for changing the different colors between the different sections is the same as the first card, but we're going to add a little element to it. We're going to add a stamped background. And because embossing glazes are transparent, you will see the stamped image in the background. Now, I did mine fairly light and fairly subtle because I don't want it to take over the image piece. I just wanted to add a little bit more interest. And you can actually see a little tiny bit of it within the wings of the butterfly as well. Once again, the very first step is to prepare our background. For this particular one. The first step is stamping background image. You can choose whatever one you want. This particular one is from a butterfly set, so it's got different French words and then I think some of them have to do with butterflies. I'm not totally sure. My piece of paper is just a little bit bigger than my stamp. I'm putting my stamp towards the right side of the paper simply because this part has the butterfly. So the part here that is stamped, you're not gonna see it a whole lot. There we go. So I chose a light color to do that in as well. If you wanted it to be more prominent, you absolutely could do a darker color. I just didn't see it necessary. I'm going to take the backing off of my tape, put my tape on my desk with the sticky side up. Then let's put our piece down here. I typically try to get one edge as close to the edge as possible so that I'm not wasting a bunch of tape that I'm cutting off because even though I typically keep some of these smaller bits, they're not really not really a large surface, a tape, so it's not as useful as a little bit bigger piece. Let's get that back, back and we'll stick these two it. I'm using tapes that comment a sheet here right now. You can actually also buy it in a role. This tends to be more economical and cheaper in the long run, but it's a bigger investment to start with. But I am at the end of my role. I can't show it to you on the rule. But that's okay. The tape works exactly the same way. Get all these little bits off the side. My tape fell off with that last one. That's just going to get tossed. Sometimes, especially with these thin little bit. Sometimes the tape will stick to the exacto knife as you're cutting or else as you're moving it to your backing, it just sticks to your finger. There's not really a whole lot you can do about that. Alright, so now I've got my piece here and I want to, you can, if you've take, put it, hold it up to the light, you can see exactly where your script stamped image is. You'll be able to see which side is the part that doesn't have the image on it. I'm just using this butterfly here. It's a really, really big butterfly that I absolutely love. And we're going to put it through art I cutting machine. There's no point in positioning it before I lay it down simply because it's likely going to move. What I wanted to do is have the body showing on the card. You could, if you want, just cut the body in half and have your card, kind of have half the body there. I just thought it looked more interesting to have the full body there. The one thing to keep in mind though, when it does that, it cuts it a little bit here that's from the other wing. And I just make that blue to go with this guy because I thought it would look a little bit funny to have just that one little blip of the other wing showing. I want to make sure that my wings fit in the top and within the top and the bottom of my card front. I'm doing the placement the same as my sample card. You could even twist it and have a different perspective of your butterfly on it that would look really cool as well. The machine, we're going to tape the backing same as the first. You can see right away that it's cut right through here. This, any piece that you can see that it's cut right through that might give you a problem when you're peeling backing off. We're going to put some tape on it, right to start. And once again, this tape is going to be used to help glue the car together so it's not a waste of tape. To do this. On this side here you'll see I have all sorts of strips or whatever. Like I said, I just keep them and I keep reusing them over and over again. Let me rephrase that By keep them and I use them for projects. So when I cut something or do a project and I have a little bit of tape left, I don't toss it. I use it. One US thing, you can't use it over and over again. And you want to do this before you take the die out, because sometimes when you take the diode, some of those pieces will come with it. I always do this wall. My die is still on the card front. All right, so let's peel it off. I always check my die. Sometimes you'll get little backing pieces that stick in there and I've got a few in here. That's okay because I'm going to fill that in with embossing powder. Right now. I'm gonna do the dark purple. So it's not going to compete with the outline of my butterfly. I'm going to do just those pieces just to fill them in. Then I'm going to do my outline of the butterfly after that and then do darkest to lightest. So this is the palette that I used for my card sample. For this particular one, just because I like, I like it when I can show you things with different colors. Sometimes it inspires you. Sometimes people see this and think this is the only way they can do it. I'm gonna take those two out, and I am going to add two of the new colors as well, just so you can see what the difference looks like. This one here is my sky color for this particular card. I'm not using clear. I'm going to use the blue for the sky. So I can put my die to the side. And I will see you in the next video and we will start to fill everything in with the glaze. 6. Butterfly Card: Embossing Glaze Application: All right, We're ready to fill our image in with a glaze. And like I said, I'm going to use the dark purple first to fill in those spots where my tape back and came off with the dye. For most of this video, I'm going to speed up the process and just show you slow it down and talk for the parts that are different from the first part. It can get a little bit tedious watching someone pulled back off of off of tape. So rather than have a really long video, most of it is me pulling a backing off. I figured I might as well. I can see a swelling miss her. I might as well just speed it up and you can just watch the process. In. For this part, I'm gonna do something a little bit different. I want to have a transition between two colors here. From this one here I did the PEC raspberry two saltwater taffy. And in this one here I wanted to do wilted violet to picked raspberry. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to use a scoop to put the powder towards the edge here. And I'm trying not to get too much powder on it because I don't want to cover the entire thing. And B, we're not gonna be able to use any excess powder that comes off because it's gonna be a combination of the two colors. I'm trying to control how much powder I'm using so that I don't have a whole bunch of waste. Now I'm going to take a small brush and I'm just going to lightly brush it in. I just mean that I'm brushing it towards the center so that I have some areas that are not completely covered with the powder that have some coverage. I can use my brush to also push the powder into the tape that's there. And then I'm going to tap the excess off this here. I can put back in the container just because it's not contaminated. I haven't added the other color yet. I'm going to close and I'm not going to emboss yet that container is giving me a hard time. It doesn't want to close properly. I'm not embossing yet. What I'm gonna do is add the pink first. I'm gonna do the same thing. Just adding as much as I think is going to stick to the tape so that I don't have a whole bunch of excess that goes to waste. There we go. I'm going to use my brush to brush it around again as well. And typically a clean my brush between different colors. While I'm doing this, I'll just kind of brush it against my shirt or whatnot just to get some of the excess powder off. Now I'm going to burnish it. I need a new piece of backing. Piece off here now I'm going to burnish it. Makes sure that it has some good contact with the tape and then brush the excess off. This is a mixture of the two, so I'm going to toss that. Now I'm going to emboss. The one thing I don't think I mentioned before is makes sure when you're embossing your heat gun is facing away from you. If you feel you sent to you, it gets really hot and we don't want to burn ourselves. By doing that, we just get a really nice transition between the two colors there. 7. Butterfly Card: Assembly: All right, Our pieces completely finished and we are ready to glue it to the card base. This particular one doesn't have a match around it. I figured there was enough detail in there that just the frame of the card base around it was enough. But I love. How is this exactly the same image, but depending on what colors you choose, you just have a little bit of a different look the same as before. We're gonna be using these pieces of the tape here to glue a card together. Anytime you see me appealing backing off, I'm putting it right into the garbage garbage rate below my desk here so it keeps everything neat and tidy. And then a little bit of liquid glue where there's no uptake. Once again, because I've got tape on this side. I'm going to flip my card base around and put the liquid glue down first so that I can shimmy it and make sure that everything is straight before pushing the tape down. There we go. Same card, just two different color schemes. Both look pretty, pretty. Both look beautiful. And I love how the embossing glaze, the transparency of it. You can see the stamp below it, but it almost looks like stained glass. It's just such a pretty look. We'll see you in the next video. 8. Lighthouse Card: Prep & Die cut Image Piece: This is our third and final card for this class. The technique again very similar to the first two cards. We're going to have color transition for the sky. We're going to be transitioning between four different colors. And then we're gonna have a color transition in the water. This is the colors that I used for my sample, for demoing. I love those colors together for the sky. So all I'm gonna do is I'm going to swap out this new one here. It's a little bit lighter and a little bit brighter. So we'll see the difference between those two when we were done. And then for this particular one, for the white part, rather than doing clear embossing powder, we're going to do glitter. I loved the way glitter plays with the embossing glaze. It just gives it a bit of a different texture. And it's fun to use the two together. You'll also get tiny little bits of glitter that will stick in any exposed adhesive, but just to find different look with that same technique. Again, first step is to prepare the front of the card. So once again, let's take our tracking on the word tape. Then put our card front on here. Make sure it's got some good contact. Let's move that over and then cut this excess off. Our last one here, we don't need to do anything too. Alright, let's cut our image. Lay our peace in our plate. This one here is actually cut to the exact size of that plate there. So I just want to make sure that it's placed properly and then put our plate down and run it through hoops. I just shifted it to stop that from happening. You could tape the plate in place if you were worried about it shifting. There we go. Technically or paper was just a little bit bigger. I do have a border around it. They're not much of this one has cut through, so I don't really need to put some tape on there, but I'm going to anyways because again, we're gonna be using it for the card front. It's not gonna be a waste. So I'm going to put it just on that one side just because while it wasn't cut through, it was looking a little bit thinner in some areas. There we go. Now let's peel that paper off of this one because the pieces are so big, we don't really worry too much about pieces staying in there because it hasn't happened yet. But there we go. Now we'll see you in the next video and we will start to put our card together or put the card front together. 9. Lighthouse Card: Embossing Glaze Application: Once again, with this card, we're gonna be working from dark to light. So the darkest part is these little tiny bits with the rocks. We have our tape backing off. We're going to work with the lightest color first on this one. And all I'm doing is I'm going to dip my brush in here and I'm putting the darker color at the bottom of the waves. If some goes on the top of the next wave, I'm not worrying about it. Just to get some color change in the water, just to make it look a little bit more interesting. If you only had one color blue and wanted to do it just one color, blue, absolutely. You can just do one color of blue. By doing this with a brush. I'm only getting a little bit on my brush. I'm not getting a lot of excess powder on my piece here. Here we go. Don't want to brush that off just because there's a lot of tape expose there. I'm going to just going to clean that off for a second. This one here. I'm going to burnish this just to make sure that I didn't have any loose powders. Because these are two blues. If I get a tiny little bit of that dark blue, like a few granules with that dark blue in with my lighter blue. I don't really worry too much about it. The chances of someone actually being able to see that, or really next to, no. I loved those two lighter blues, brighter blues for that water. They're not just say there was anything wrong with that darker one that I used before at that point, that was the only, the only blues that I had. And I just wanted to have a little bit of color contrast in my water. Alright, let's emboss. Alright, we're gonna do the colors for the sky. And once again, I'm just taking it. I'm going to, just going to be using my brush. I'm not trying to get necessarily stripes of each color. So I want to have some thinner areas and some thicker areas. Basically, I'm just trying to transition through all of the colors to make it look a little bit. Sunrise, see sunset, ie, anything that any excess powder rather than having it on my tape back in there, I'm just pushing it into the tape. This is a technique that I've used are done with glitter as well before. And it's fun to do, to especially like if you're doing flowers and the petals are a little bit bigger as fun or to have a bit of a color transition from dark to light or light to dark or whatever, or different colors, complementing colors. I'm going to do some orange. This is the new saltwater taffy color, and I think it's so pretty. It's a corollary color, but it's just a really pale correlate color for this. Makes a really pretty addition to the sunrise. Sunset. I haven't decided what it is. The nice thing about using a small brush is by doing this, I am making sure that it's got some good contact with the tape. Let's go to our pink. I typically tap my containers before opening it because I find the containers that I have a hard time closing again are the ones where I haven't done that. I have a little bit of embossing powder kind of stuck in the grooves or the threads of the lid. Just something to keep in mind and watch out for. You could do something similar to this with regular embossing powder. The only thing is, is because regular embossing powder for the most part, unless you happen to have some that is translucent. Look would be a little bit different because the translucency, all right, I'm going to burnish this and then I'm going to add, I'm going to take away the rest of the blue pieces and add the blue to that and then just emboss it all at once. So by burnishing this, I'm making sure that everything has some good contact with the tape, tapping the excess off, I only have a little bit of powder here, but I'm gonna get rid of it. Now let's take the rest off. This particular dye is definitely a lot easier than the other ones for the most part because of the pieces are a lot bigger than the little window pieces here. So backing pieces come off so much quicker because there is so much bigger because I don't have to worry about contamination. I'm just putting right back in the container. And then let's get a new piece of backing and burnish. There's a spot there that's lighter. You can just put your plastic or your backing over top of that, you get pieces of tape or the embossing powder stuck on here. So you don't necessarily need to grab some more. You can just go from the table over. Let's close this up. Then the rest of it, I'm just going to let you watch it. I'm gonna melt this first, then I'm gonna take the yellow parts off. I am going to cut that. I have clear edges for my yellow. And then lastly I'm going to add the clip. 10. Lighthouse Card: Assembly: All right, so there is our peace there. I love how the water is a little bit more subtle than it is here. Again, neither, nothing wrong with either one of them is just personal preference, whichever one you prefer. Now you may have noticed when I put the glitter on, I still burnished it with the tape backing. And the reason is that flattens the glitter out a little bit and it gives it good contact with your with your tape. And it just makes the glitter sparkle a little bit if you ever have a chance, do one with the burnishing and without the rationing and you'll definitely notice a difference. Let's blue card-based down here. Then I have most of this one without the tape. So let's just add the tape to the sorry, I was just add the glue to the other part. Then flip it around so we can put the glue side down again. There we are. Very subtle difference between those two, but absolutely beautiful. And I just love the spark cleanness of the lighthouse and the white in the water. That glitter just adds a bit of a different texture to it. 11. Faux Glass Technique Card Class Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me for the folk last card technique class. I hope you enjoyed the process. I hope you enjoyed playing with embossing glazes and having fun with him with double-sided tape. It's definitely a non traditional way to use both the tape and the glazes, but it's one that I just loved to do. Hopefully it inspired you for your future projects, will see you in the next class.