Wax Paste Techniques for Card Making

1. Wax Paste Techniques for Card Making Introduction: Welcome to the wax paste techniques for card making class. There's so many fun techniques that you can do with different wax paste. And I'd like to show you some of my favorites. Let's go take a look. These are the cards were making in this class you seeing duplicates because I've got both the sample card as well as the one that is created during the class because I'm filming this after the class is completely done. This is Tech, is not every single wax paste technique there is, but it's just my favorites. I am using Inca gold for this class. It is a water-soluble wax paste. And it is one of my favorites because there are some Water techniques that you can do with it that just make it a little bit more versatile. If you choose to use a different wax paste, most of these techniques are going to work. The ones you may have issues with are the ones where I use water to help move it around. So just be aware that there are a couple of techniques that you need to use water, you may find a workaround for those. But as far as I'm aware, this is the only water-soluble wax paste. I could be wrong. We'll be, we'll be creating six cards in this class. This class comes with a supply list PDF. It's going to break down every single card and all the supplies used for it so you don't need to worry about remembering. The supplies that I used are the colors that I've used as we're going along. And then those supplies are also linked to where you can purchase them and have them shipped right to your home. Just to make it a little bit more easy and let you have more fun creating, unless time shopping, unless you enjoy the shopping part. As you can see, I'm using a bunch of different dyes and embossing folders and I'll share which ones those are on the supply list. But those techniques will work with any dicot or stamp or embossing folder that you choose to use. So you're not limited to what is shown here. So just be aware of that you can be creative. Have fun. Once again, the colors I'm sharing, which ones I'm using, but you can use whichever ones are your preference suit your needs, or ones that you already have. We'll see you in class. 2. Stamping & Embossing the Sentiments: The cards that we're making in these clots in this class have different sentiments on them. They're all from the same sentiments step or a stat that if you wanted, you could stamp and embossed individual sentiments. I'll tell you right now is really hard to cut, just one that tiny. So this is what I like to do. I like to do an entire sheet, the entire stamp set in a color of embossing powder and then cut them all up and I have them sitting in tin here. Then when I just want a quick sentiment, I can go through here and I'm trying to get all sorts of different powder colors on them and different backgrounds. I'm working on white and black backgrounds and I'm working on the metallic embossing and I don't have one that is embossed with gold, so I'm going to show you how to do it. This is a great way to just have a bunch of bunch of sentiments already. At a moment's notice. So I do this with my stamp set facing up. Put my versa mark ink pad, ink on it. Versa mark is a watermark ink that is sticky and stays wet for awhile, so it's perfect for embossing. I just want to make sure there's no nothing on my card stock here. I'm holding it in place and I am rubbing it. Now. I'll tell you right now, sometimes when you do this you might have a sentiment or two that don't be embossing is wrong and you didn't get ink completely over it. I don't worry about it because most of them will work. I just toss away the ones that don't and sometimes the ones that don't. There might be a word or two that you could use. And it'll just cut out those words. I'm gonna take my powder and put it on my embossing. Going to put it on the top. There we go. Now we have to emboss it before we emboss it, Let's get this powder out of the way. And you can see that I didn't put it straight on my on my piece of card stock. I typically try to get it straight, but it doesn't always work. So here's the magic. Right now it is Matt and it's not shiny. When I'm heating it with the heat gun and I want to have my heat gun and a couple of inches away, it's going to go, it's going to melt and it's going to go nice and glossy. And that's when, you know it's done. This is a heat gun. It cannot be done with a hairdryer. One of the most common questions I get asked when embossing is can you just do it the hairdryer and that the reason there's no heat going to miss heat. A hairdryer blows air. A hairdryer would blow and dry the ink and blow the powder off. Whereas this leaves the powder where it isn't, it just lets it melt where it is. I also do this, holding it in the air so that I can see where it has melted. The other thing, make sure the heat gun is not peace in your hand. It gets really hot and you can burn yourself. So typically I will hold it up so that he can go right through and I'll have the heat guy and facing away from him. Now let's do that part where my hand was. Now as we've turned it around, There's a couple of spots that I asked, spot that I noticed that wasn't completely done. While your heat gain is here and still hot, just kind of twisted and makes sure that everything is completely done. And you'll notice that as I went through it, I started going faster and faster. And that's because the heat gun is hot and it happens a lot quicker. So now I will take my tremor out and I will cut the entire thing up. First thing I do is I line up one of the sides. Then typically gonna say typically the rest of it will be square. Sometimes. It's not. So I don't necessarily rely on squaring it up. I rely on making sure it's straight with the words there. Here we go. From here. What I do is I'd line up the edge of my ruler here with the bottom part of one of the segments. And I just cut the entire page up. It takes a little bit longer than just stamping and cutting one sentiment. But in the end, you have a ton of Sentiments ready to go. In the end it's a timesaver. It just takes a little bit of time right now to get it all done. I will do that for the rest, the sheet. And then what I do for these ones, rather than doing these ones with a tremor, I'll just take out my scissors. I'll just cut read in-between them. And then I'll put them in my little tin. For this particular class. Some of them, I'm even covering them with the Inca gold to customize them to the card that I'm making. But once again, a great way to get a ton of sentiments all at once and have them ready to go for your next project. 3. Die Cutting & 3D Embossing: The cards that we're making in these clots in this class have different sentiments on them. They're all from the same sentiments step or a stat that if you wanted, you could stamp and Emboss individual sentiments. I'll tell you right now it's really hard to cut just one that tiny. So this is what I like to do. I like to do an entire sheet, the entire stamp set in a color of embossing powder and then cut them all up and I have them sitting in tin here. Then when I just want a quick sentiment, I can go through here and I'm trying to get all sorts of different powder colors on them and different backgrounds. So I'm working on white and black backgrounds and I'm working on the metallic embossing and I don't have one that is embossed with gold, so I'm going to show you how to do it. This is a great way to just have a bunch of bunch of sentiments already. At a moment's notice. So I do this with my stamp set facing up. My versa mark ink pad, ink on it. Versa mark is a watermark ink that is sticky and stays wet for awhile, so it's perfect for embossing. I just want to make sure there's no nothing on my card stock here. I'm holding it in place and I am rubbing it. Now. I'll tell you right now, sometimes when you do this you might have a sentiment or two that don't be embossing is wrong and you didn't get ink completely over it. I don't worry about it because most of them will work. I just toss away the ones that don't and sometimes the ones that don't. There might be a word or two that you could use. And it'll just cut out those words. I'm gonna take my powder and put it on my embossing. Going to put it on the top. There we go. Now we have to emboss it before we emboss it, Let's get this powder out of the way. You can see that I didn't put it straight on my on my piece of card stock. I typically try to get it straight, but it doesn't always work. So here's the magic. Right now it is Matt and it's not shiny. When I'm heating it with the heat gun and I want to have my heat gun a couple of inches away. It's going to go, it's going to melt and it's going to go nice and glossy. And that's when, you know it's done. This is a heat gun. It cannot be done with a hairdryer. One of the most common questions I get asked when embossing is can you just do it the hairdryer and that the reason there's no heat going emits heat. A hairdryer blows air. So a hairdryer would blow and dry the ink and blow the powder off. Whereas this leaves the powder where it isn't, it just lets it melt where it is. I also do this, holding it in the air so that I can see where it has melted. The other thing, make sure the heat gun is not piecing your hand. It gets really hot and you can burn yourself. So typically I will hold it up so that heat can go right through and I'll have the heat guy and facing away from him. Let's do that part where my hand was. Now as we've turned it around, There's a couple of spots that I asked spot that I noticed that wasn't completely done. While you're here again, is here still hot, just kind of twisted and makes sure that everything is completely done. And you'll notice that as I went through it, I started going faster and faster and that's because the heat gun his hot and it happens a lot quicker. So now I will take my tremor out and I will cut the entire thing up. First thing I do is I line up one of the sides. Then typically gonna say typically the rest of it will be square. Sometimes. It's not. So I don't necessarily rely on squaring it up. I rely on making sure it's straight with the words there. Here we go. From here. What I do is I'd line up the edge of my ruler here with the bottom part of one of the assessments and I just cut the entire page up. It takes a little bit longer than just stamping and cutting one sentiment. But in the end, you have a ton of Sentiments ready to go. In the end it's a timesaver. It just takes a little bit of time right now to get it all done. I will do that for the rest, the sheet. And then what I do for these ones, rather than doing these ones with a tremor, I'll just take out my scissors. I'll just cut rate in-between them. And then I'll put them in my little tin. For this particular class. Some of them, I'm even covering them with the Inca gold to customize them to the card that I'm making. But once again, a great way to get a ton of sentiments all at once and have been ready to go for your next project. 4. Let's talk about Wax Paste: Alright, so first of all, before we get into making any cars, let's talk about waxes. The wax that we're using for, or wax pace that we're using for. This class has Inca gold. It comes in tons of different colors. This is more of my large collection, but I've narrowed this class down to nine paste colors, so we're not going to be using every single one of them. I've narrowed it down to a smaller selection. The thing that I like about Inca gold is it is a wax pace, but it's water-soluble. So there's some water techniques that we can do with it. If by chance you choose to do this class with a different type of wax, it'll work for most techniques, but unless you have a water-soluble wax, it won't work for some of the ones where we're using water. If there is a different brand that is water-soluble, I haven't heard of it yet, but that's one of the things that I like about this one. The one thing though, it's got some natural ingredients in it, that sometimes mean it may start to mold. If that happens, just take a wet cloth or a baby wipe. And you just wipe it right off. It's usually only on the surface. I've never had it go into the paste and then your paste is good as new, tiny little bit right there. The other thing is because it is water-soluble, sometimes it will dry up in this one is one that has dried up. The way to get it back. It's not lost, you don't throw it away. Is you can break it up with a skewer, put some water on it, and then let that water absorbed and then go back to it, check it, put some more water on it, let it absorb, so it takes a little bit of patience, but you can get it back. I hadn't played with my Inca goals for a long time, so mine were quite dry. And that's all I did was fine. His ice broke some of the ones that were really dehydrated up and spray them with water, but water just absorbs rate in it. And then you can get them back. You're not gonna get them. This sorry, the creamy, creamy consistency that you got them with, but you'll get them so that they're good for using four different card making techniques. The other thing is the tools that we're using is our fingers. We're gonna be using our fingers to wipe them around other than when we use the water techniques, I typically will choose a different finger for each color so that I don't contaminate them. Most of the times, even if you do happen to get, say, a bit of pink onto the turquoise, you can just use a wet wipe or whatever to clean it up so you're not ruining it if you do happen to get some colors into a different container, but it's more getting it on the card. If I have different colors on one hand, that I'm not gonna be getting the exact color that I want in the area that I want. But that is what we're going to use for this particular class. Like I said, if you have a paste that is not water-soluble, it'll work for most of the techniques that we're doing. But you will have an issue with some of the water ones. With that being said, let's move on to our first card. We'll see you in the next video. 5. Roses Card: All right, So this is the first card that we're gonna be creating. And we have an image here that's just a 3D rows embossing folder. It's a beautiful folder that's got some extra dimension to it. This is one that I didn't demonstrate in the embossing and 3D or die cutting in 3D embossing video. But the background is done exactly the same way as all of the other 3D backgrounds. The only difference is it's a smaller version or a smaller size. So first thing I'm gonna do is I'm going to use a finger and I'm going to work from the back to the front. So the pace or I want to say semi-opaque. I got a little bit of turquoise on the leaf there. And for 3D embossing folders, especially if you're trying to be a little bit precise, it is a little bit more challenging to do that. But by working from the back to the front, if I happen to get some different colors onto the flowers, I can put some of the pink over top of it and it's not going to completely cover it, but it is going to mute those colors. And I don't necessarily worry about getting the turquoise onto the leaves because it's not going to be a weird color for on leaves. It's just gonna be more of a weird color on the flowers and the paste dries super quick. You can see that I'm keeping my fingers in Intuit quite regularly and that's because the paste has already dried, which means by the time I'm done this card front, it's ready to glue rate onto the base of the card or the matter, whatever. So I don't have to wait for things to dry and I'm gonna do my leaves. I'm just using a very fine light touch. Okay, I wanted to get a little bit of turquoise in that behind those there. I'm just using a light touch to try to get just the surface. For this particular look, I'm not too worried if I get a little bit on the background. It's just part of the whole look of this particular card. So the precision is not something that you're gonna be easily able to do with this. Which for this one, you may want to be a little bit more precise. Cleaning my fingers off, I'm just going to use a baby wipe because I don't want to take my fingers. I typically choose a different finger for each color, but I don't have five. Why do you have five fingers but you can't do it with your thumb. Now I'm going to this light. Pink here is very, very light, so it's not going to cover a whole lot. But I wanted to do a light pink based on my flowers before I go and do the darker pink. And I love that it dries so fast because I don't have to wait for anything to dry before gluing it down. Now you'll notice I went from the light pink to the dark paint. I use the same finger because I'm not going to contaminate anything. They're both pinks and be the lighter one, you're not even gonna see it into the darker one there. Alright, so that is done in the last thing I want to do for this, because I just wanted to frame it in a little bit. So I'm using a brown gold. I'm just putting a little bit around the edges. I just found it at framed it in just a little bit. Wait my fingers off. Then I'm going to glue this onto the mat so that it can dry while I'm working on the mat piece, I'm using the same Inca gold colors to color in the map piece. You could use a solid piece of card stock if you wanted. But by using the Inca gold colors, I am making sure that it's going to match perfectly. The one thing with the 3D folders is you have to hold them down to really glue them. So rather than hold it down, I'm just going to put that on there for right now. Then. I don't want to get any of this brown and turquoise. I'm going to clean it up super quick. I'm going to do this on my mat piece. Now. I want this is a little bit wider Matt than I normally do. So this is about a half an inch. I'm gonna be doing it about a half an inch in. I don't need to do the center is going to be covered up. There's no point in doing it. I'm gonna move this over here just so it's a little bit closer. You see how quickly I have to rethink my finger because this is already dry. Now having said that, it does not drying in there that fast. But if I was spending hours with my container open, I would take my misting bottle and I would just missed it periodically, just technical difficulties and phones not working the way they're supposed to. My phone or my video cutoff, partly through recording that last bit there. There's a few sections we need to re-record, but that's okay. I'm just gonna finish putting the paste on this mat. I'm not sure what I've already said and what I haven't said, but you'll see some variations in the color. There's some lights and darks. I don't mind that for this particular card, this particular technique, because with the background, there's different darks and lights and stuff like that. I think it goes with it. As well as the fact that because this pink matches perfectly with my roses and I don't have to match card stock. I loved that because of the glitch with my recording. My card has already put together, but I would just glue this to my card base and then glue this to the front of it. And it will cover all of that white little center there. So there is our completed card. There are sample super simple technique. This card was done within ten minutes. Aside from doing the embossing for the flowers and having to wait for that to completely dry. That's what took the longest the actual card in together, super, super quickly. I'll see you in the next video. We're going to be doing this technique with different background. And then we're also gonna do a little bit of water coloring. Will see you there. 6. Your Beautiful Self Card: This is our second card. This background is exactly the same technique as the first card. The only difference is it's an all over background. So we're not worried about getting one color mixed in the other. And I'm actually doing it intentionally to create the funky brick color. What we're gonna do with the front here, with rent, with the flowers here is we're going to use our water brush and we're going to watercolor them. And because of my camera era recording issues, I've already got that done. But that just means that they are completely dry. And when I tried to record it before, they weren't dry enough to glue, but now they will be. So what we're going to do is I'm just taking my water brush here. And I am going to pick up my color. And I'm gonna watercolor my flowers now because this particular water brush has water rate in it. So I don't have to have a water brush or water jar to dip my brush into wet it and stuff like that, which is great because in all honesty, I'm a little bit of a klutz. So if I would have a water jar, chances are probably contaminated. I probably knock it over. I'm just going to add a little pink to the center just because, why not? I typically love when I watercolor flowers, I typically love having two different colors, whether it's a lightened, dark version of the same color or opposite colors. Either way. Then you saw that I quickly just wiped my brush onto the paper towel and now it's cleaned for my next color. There we go. You can squeeze a little bit of water out if you really want to clean it off. Now I'm going to put some yellow over top of that green. Now this particular green is not my favorite for doing greenery, so it's a little bit to Emerald for me. I prefer a more yellow green and there is a yellow-green in Inca gold. When I was looking up what colors were available so that I could link them on the supply list. That one wasn't available at that time. I did not choose it to do the class width. However, I did notice the other night that it was available. Again. I'm gonna set my piece aside to dry. I've got these ones that are already dried, which is fantastic. Now let's work on the background. I'm going to just move from one color to another. I'm not really concerned with what color is going, where. What I tend to do is have three sections of each color. I work in the rule of thirds. I just realized I had grabbed purple. Purple on the sample carpet. That is okay. We're adding it to this background. Anyways, because with my camera errors, I already have my background done in glue to the base. Now you see what the background is gonna look like if you had purple. Now this background is inspired by a YouTube video and I have no idea who it was. I thought months ago. But it had a background of a brick wall that was super colorful. And I think it's a background that you can get off of Amazon or something. Because I know I have seen that background somewhere to purchase, but I just thought it was so funky. When I saw all these colors and had my brick folder out, I thought, fun. You'll see that I am not really making sure to keep each other color pristine. I'm actually intentionally going over to get a little bit of a blend between the colors. Let's get a little bit of this champagne color. The nice thing about the Inca gold, like I said before, it's semi-opaque, which means it's opaque enough to color, but you do see the colors underneath it. So when I go over the green, I still get some green in there. That comes in handy when you're working with different cards, dot colors, you'll be able to see. When I do the bird card, I can still see the yellow tone from the card stock that I'm using underneath the birds. So that is what I'm gonna do for the brick. At that point, I would glue it to my card base. I've already got that done. Now what I'm going to do is I am going to wipe my fingers off. Really. I'm wiping my fingers off for myself because the Inca gold dry so quickly on your hands that it's not that it's going to transfer to the the card. I'm not really worried about that. One of those things as a craft or you get used to cleaning your hands off when you're going to try and put a card together because you want to keep everything pristine. So I'm going to glue one flower there and I typically will hold it down for a few seconds to give it good contact with my base. The ones that I painted for this card as opposed to the sample. The sample is all pink ones. What I ended up painting for this one is two pink ones and a yellow one just to, just for some little bit of dimension, a little bit of difference. To show you that you don't have to do them all the same color. You can do them different colors. The sky is the limit, the imagination. Your imagination is your limit. Basically. I really liked how doing one in a different color just made it pop a little bit better. If you wanted, you could do background that doesn't have any of the flower colors so that they're not competing with your background if that's what you wanted to do. And then I've got my sentiment here. And the only thing I did with the sentiment was I took some brown gold with my finger and I just did this just to frame it a little bit because that way it popped out a bit better. Just got some stuff on my hand. I'm going to put some pop dots on the back of that sentiment. These particular popped out or particular pop-ups. These particular sentiments, I like to raise them on pop dots just because they're small, but by raising them, it gives them some dimension and makes them a little bit, it makes them stick out a little bit. There we go. Last, but certainly not least, I want to cut those stems off, so I'm gonna cut them at the bottom of the brick. There. There we go. Our second card is done. There's the sample and there's what we did. So very similar. The only difference is the flower that I chose to color and cut out is a different shape. And then I added this one here that is yellow. But there you go. Another beautiful color done with wax paste. I'll see you in the next video. We're gonna do some more water coloring, but a different spin will see you there. 7. Butterfly Watercolour Card: Here is the next card that we're gonna do. We're gonna do some watercolor again, but we're gonna do it within a stamped and embossed image. The embossing is done exactly the same way as I did for the sentiments at the beginning. I'm just using this cute butterfly set and you can pick whatever one you want. And really it doesn't need to be a butterfly can be whatever image you want. But let's get to it. So I am, because I'm doing watercolor, I am using watercolor card stock. Because otherwise, if you don't use watercolor card stuck, most card stocks don't enjoy being watercolor down. They tend to bubble. It doesn't look too good. So the embossing powder or the embossing completely resists the Inca gold. Now if by chance you get a really, really thick layer and it seems to cover your embossing. Let me try do it right here. See how it's kind of a color covered some of that black. All you do is wipe your brush off and just kinda thin it out a little bit so that it resists. Sometimes if you get a bit too much of the wax pigment or whatever it's called on there. The embossing will resist it a little bit, but it's super easy to get it back to. Seeing those lines. Images are seeing them a little bit more clearly. I just use my paper towel and clean my brush off. For this particular one, the colors are kind of in the same tone. So I don't really have to worry about contaminating anything. If by chance I was going from something dark to something light, I would want to squeeze my brush to get the color out of it before going into the lighter color. You can see that I am not super colored. English is hard today. I'm not super careful when I watercolor and I do have some that has gone outside the lines, but as soon as I go over it with a different color, it re moisturizers that wax and blends it right in. Go a little bit on this side now, like I said, it doesn't need to be a butterfly, can be whatever image you want and you don't necessarily even need to emboss it. I like the look of an embossed stamped image because it has a raised it raises the image and it just gives it a little bit more. Especially when you're using the wax paste. It's a lot easier to resist the embossing by just going back over it. If you're just using a permanent ink, then, um, it would be slightly harder. It would be super hard, but I just liked the look of it. And then I'm going to put a little bit of brown in the body there. There we go. Clean my brush, that aside to dry for just a couple of minutes while we do the background. The background is a wood grain embossing folder done with black watercolor paper. I really like the black watercolor paper with this because I like the look of the black watercolor paper. But because we have to missed the embossing folder before we do the embossing black paper, the watercolor paper just takes the missing. So much better. I'm just combining the three colors that I used for the image. You could do the brown as well. But I didn't for this, I just did the the violet, the pink, and the turquoise. Once again, just like the white one, I tend to go over blend colors that are beside each other. I just liked the look of that is an incredible how much different it looks on black and bossing versus white embossing. Neither is right or wrong. But doing it on the black just, it just seems to pop a little bit more than metallic looks a little bit different. A little bit more of that purple in there. Because these are all kind of in the same color tone. I'm actually using the same finger. I'm not too worried about contaminating them, but I certainly could be using a different finger if you were worried about that. Clean clean it off. Put the lids on there. Lately. Let's glue the card together. This particular 3D folder doesn't have quite as much dimension as the brick one does. So I find that it's not as challenging to glue it down. The ones that the brick one especially I find because there's so much dimension to it, I typically need to put the glue on it, put it down and then put something on top of it to hold it in place while it dries. Because it likes to curl up a little bit. Because of that dimension. This is already dried. I can feel that it's still a little bit damp, but I'm not moving any of the color around when I'm doing this. So typically I would wait for the card stock to be completely dry and not be glowing it down when it's damp. But for this, it will work. Just have to hold it down in a few seconds. And then last but certainly not least, I'm putting the sentiments so I've got one that's white embossed on black because I wanted it to pop a little bit and I wanted that black to shine through. I could do it on a purple card stock embossed with white, just to tie in with the card base color. But I think because the purple is so dark, I couldn't do it with purple. Emboss with black because I don't think you'd see it. There we go. There is our third card done. The next card we're gonna be working on a black embossed background as well, but we're going to use a different technique on it. I'll see you in that video. 8. Industrial Card: All right, So this is the next card that we are working on, a little bit of an industrial look to it. The very first thing we're gonna do is work on the card base. And I actually don't remember the name of this folder right now, but it's kind of a bunch of metal that is riveted. What I'm gonna do, I have a Collage brush here. And I'm going to lightly go over that, working both horizontally and vertically. And that Inca gold is going to be darker around the edges of those raised bits. It just creates a really cool look. Just a little bit different than using your hands. Just a little bit more subtle is still makes that embossing pop. But just in a completely different way. Now because the Inca gold is water-soluble, I don't need to worry about it drying on my brush and ruining my brush. It will moisten up and wash off. When I am ready for that. I'm going to set that aside for a moment and then I'm going to color my dicot here. I've got my gears die. It's probably a little bit hard for you to see the part that isn't inked simply because it's black on my black mat here. But I'm just gonna do it all with gold first. With gold first, and then I will use the other colors to make the gears, a couple of gears a little bit different. I could leave it with all gold gears if I wanted. But I just found by doing a few different metals, it just gave it a more interesting look to it. I'm just going to do three of them in the brown gold and then three of them and silver. And then I'm gonna do some separate gears to go with it. Trying to do the same ones that I did on my card. If you see me going like that slope, That's why I'm trying to trying to do the same ones. And I think I just did that one in brown, gold, but I'm gonna do that silver that I want to thank hold right there. Alright, that is done. What I'm gonna do now is I'm going to glue it onto my embossed piece so that I can weigh it down because this one I found it took a little bit of being weighed down in order for it to really adhere to my embossed piece. So let's do that. We go down here. I'm going to take a break till my furnace turns off. There we go. If you haven't taken a class with me before where I said it, I share my craft room with furnace and our hot water heater. Every once in awhile while I'm filming a video, a furnace legs to pop itself on, which is not a big deal. My husband likes to say, Well, at least you're warm. I just never know whether it interferes with being able to hear me. I know myself. I have a hearing thing where I have a hard time hearing if there's white noise in the background and the background like running water or a fan or whatever. So I figured I might as well shut it off if it could possibly interfere. So I am just inking a couple of the individual gears that I have cut. Then we will glue it onto the card. There we go. Before we glue them onto the card, I've got a few Brad's here and yes, you can absolutely get metallic Brad's. But it's again, nice to have things that match your project. I'm just going to take them. I'm going to quickly color them with the brown gold google. And once again, it dries super quick. Wipe off my fingers. And then we will put here these gears on. And then I'm just putting the brads through a couple of them. You could put them through a whole bunch. I am tend to be of the thinking that less is more so I don't want to overdo it sometimes and sometimes I think if you do too many, it takes away from it. So I'm trying to just fit the gears in a little bit where. I think they might work. Obviously, they're not going to work everywhere because the gear spacing is different. You'll notice I held it down for a few seconds. Just to give the glue a second, I get some good contact with the paper. Put her last one down here. There's popping up a bit. All right. So to put the brads through, I'm just going to take my die pick, poke a quick poke the Brad through and I don't really have to be super careful, but wiping off that Inca gold. I've never found it to be an issue. If you found that was happening, what you could do is after you've put it in, you could just take your finger and just just touch it up. But all the times that I've done this I haven't felt and found that it's affected at all. You definitely want to put the brads through before you put your this piece onto your card base. Because this way this will be encased within that card and you won't see it on the inside of your card. All right. Now, I'm going to put my sentiment on because there's a lot of metallic on this card. I decided that I wanted my card base to match that metallic. I am going to put some of the Inca gold around the edges of my card base before I put the front piece on. Let me go. No, we have all of them. I'm going to put my sentiment on here. In order to make it pop a little bit more. I'm gonna take my the same goal that I did on the base here. And I'm gonna do the exact same technique. And it's just going to frame that piece and make it pop a little bit more. Go tuck that to the side. And now I'm going to the base of my card. I'm trying not to get it all over the rest of my card though, so I'm gonna put it on a scrap piece of paper. I'm doing it with a brown gold you could do it with actually for this sample are for demo. I'm going to do it with the gold just to see what the difference between the two colors would look like. Obviously, it's personal preference. You can do whatever color you want. You could do a gray card base and then these silver to put make that pop if you wanted. Once again, same as some of the other maps we've done. I only need to do the part that's gonna be covered by the image piece of my card. I'm not doing it in the center. A, it's a waste of product and be your card stock is going to stick better. Actual card stock, the glue is going to dry a little bit quicker than it is to the Inca gold. It'll still stick to the Inca gold. But it's gonna be a little bit easier. If you're gluing it to the card stock. Go with center it on here. Hold it down for a few seconds to give that time to get some good contact. There is our two cards, one with the brown gold as the mat and one with the gold. And you can see how just those two differences make different parts of the card pop. But both are really, really cool. 9. Bird Emboss Resist Card: This is the next card that we're gonna make. This background here. We're going to stamp it and emboss it. And then we're going to rub the Inca gold on it and then use a wet wipes to wipe off the excess. And that embossed area is going to really shine after that and it's going to make the embossing just pop. So I've got my bird dies already cut. I'm going to ink them so that I can glue my bird together and cut it aside or decide, put it aside so that it's ready for when we need it. I'm only inking the part of the bird that is going to be showing through the openings of the dicot. I'm using brown and I'm using my champagne color. For no other reason than I felt like it. You can create your birds and whatever colors you wanted. Because there's vines on the back on the stamp. I thought it would look best with kind of a natural color scheme. Now let's glue or dicots together. This one goes together super quick. A couple of pieces to it, but it's amazing how just a couple of pieces layer together with different colors is really effective. Let's leave that wing. Alright, set that aside to dry. Let's do the embossed piece now, the color that I used for my sample is a dark green. I'm using a brighter green for this one just to show you how the different colors look. I've got my stamp here. Confuse the paper to put my embossing powder on. The process for this is exactly the same as the sentiments. The only difference is I am using clear powder. What that's gonna do, it's going to protect the the color of our background card stock piece so that you will see it through. You could do it with a gold or a different colored powder, but you just wouldn't have their resists. You wouldn't have the color of card stock that you're using showing up in your card. You get a nice firm press on there to get it all stamped. Stamp aside. Dump off the excess. Remember all of that excess goes right back into the container so you're not wasting anything. I know some people like to only put just a tiny little bit of embossing powder on their piece. But you might as well just dump a ton of it on there so that you ensure that you're not missing areas. All right. Let's keep this up. Flip it around so we don't remember heat gun rate. Your fingers. There we go. So I did get the edge of the stamp on this part here. I'm not going to worry about it too much. This particular one here, I cut it down so that there's a wider, wider part of the card-based showing. I could do that with this. For right now. I'm just gonna leave it. So all I'm doing is rubbing the colors that I want on my base here. Similar to doing it with the embossing folders, I typically do three areas with each color. Rule of odds. Oops, there we go. I'm gonna do some brown and I think I'm going to add some gold to this as well. I'm pretty sure I did that with the sample. Just because this champagne color is quite subtle. And I wanted a little bit more of the gold showing to bring out the bird. If you happen to get your Inca gold a little bit too thick, remember we're gonna be going over it with a baby wipe. That's going to bring out the embossing powder or the embossed image. Again. If you're embossed image starts looking a little bit dull. It's just the Inca gold over top of it. For this last color, I'm just making sure that the rest of the card stock is covered. I realized I had too much gold altogether. They're just like the emboss part. I do deliberately go over, overlap the colors. I like the Blend be I don't want to have any plane card stock, so we've got everything done. Good or card-based ready? I'm going to take my baby wipe. I don't need to press very hard. I don't need to be gentle. I don't need to be worrying about the back of the card stock wiping all of that, paste off. It's not going to all wipe off. There we go. Let's glue this to the background of the card. Hold it in place for a second to get that good glue, some good contact. Then go your dicot down. Again, I'm using a bird. You can use whatever image you want. Just personal preference. Now I have a sentiment here that is white card stock with silver embossing powder. And it really doesn't blend well with the whole card. So all we're gonna do to make it blend a little bit better. Put some of the champagne color on, and then just darken it slightly with the gold. One thing you do have to worry about with these wax paste. If you have nails, sometimes you get a little bit under your nails. So I'm trying to be careful about noticing. I'm getting a little bit here and there. Alright, so that is done. Let's put some pop dots on the back of that. Oops. That was just the backing of it. I'm going to glue that right to the front of our card. There. There you go. You see the tutor friend background. You get a different look with that. Neither one is right or wrong. It's just personal preference. But it's interesting how just changing the color tone of a background changes the look of the card. This one is definitely more bright green, fresh, springy, and this one's definitely little bit more, I want to say that's a little bit more polish to me. But there you go. 10. Use your Wings Foil Card: All right, So this here is our final card and all it is is a silver foil tape on top of card stock. Then we ran it through the card stock. I run it through the big shot machine with a 3D embossing folder. Now, for this, I am using this, I think industrial tape I've gotten it at I guess for ducting and houses and stuff like that. You can buy foil tape sheets so that you could do an entire piece of card stock with a whole sheet without having seams. Because if you look super closely, you can see a seam in here. But by the time we're done this technique, you're not actually going to see that. For trying out a technique. It's nice when you can get some inexpensive supplies to try it out. What I'm going to do here, and I realized that I got the wrong color here. This is actually supposed to be this one here that I have on my background. So all I'm doing is rubbing the Incan gold on the metallic foil. You can see that some of the colors show up very well. Some of them are a little bit more subtle. But it just all as to the look of it. It goes on super easy because that foil is non porous. It just comes right off your fingers. And then let's use a little bit of the brown here. I've got some turquoise on my fingers, so let's use a different one here. But just so you know, you don't have to use just card stock. You can absolutely use some other surfaces as well. I've done the last one of the last cards. We did some Brad's, but I've also done some on, some metal charms on cards as well. And it works really, really well on that. And after it's dried, it's really hard to scratch it off. I've tried. I'm going to put my lid on there, clean my fingers a bit. We'll let that dry for a few seconds and then we're going to highlight some of the embossing with some stays on Inc. which is a permanent ink. Realize I had the wrong ain't got sitting there. So I want to make sure that I'm doing it with a right to ink pad. Alright, now we're gonna do our dicot. Now, I'm doing this penciling with a die. You could easily do this with a plastic stencil if you wanted to do a stencil background using the Inca gold, this particular die only cuts the outside of the image. There's a lot of detail in there that it doesn't actually cut out. And the reason for this is so that you can stencil if you want. Now you do need to press a little bit harder with this just to get down into that image just because there's a little bit of dimension two dyes. You could also do this with ink pads and whatnot and Blake blending brushes and stuff like that. I'm not saying this is the only way to get to stencil your dies, but it's just a different way to use some of the Inca gold with your dicots or with stencils. I'm gonna take this off right now. Any of the Inca gold that's on that die, there can easily be washed radar off. I'm going to set that aside and now we'll do the season. So all I'm doing for this stays on, is just lightly running my pad down that foil. I'm trying to do at all directions. What that does is it just highlights some of that raised surface. And it also ties in the black that I have going on with that butterfly and with that sentiment. So typically I would wait for this to dry. It only takes want to stay like thirty-seconds. It's a non porous surface and stays on his great for non porous surfaces. We're going to put our image or our embossed piece down that stays on is not dry yet. So this is going to need to be weighed down to stick. Then once it's done, all I'm doing is gluing that butterfly on there and then popping up my sentiment with some pop dots. I'll do that once it is completely dried and I'll see you back in a few minutes. Alright, so our base piece is glued onto our card base. I'm going to glue the butterfly on. That is going to take a few minutes for that to dry because we are trying to glue it onto a non porous surface. So I am going to let that sit there to dry. I'm not going to lift it up. But there we go. Inca gold onto silver foil and then also sensing stencil with a dicot. 11. Wax Paste Techniques for Card Making Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me for the wax paste techniques for card making class. I hope you enjoyed learning these techniques. I hope it inspires some creativity and makes you want to co-create. I'll see you in the next class.