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Hey friends....it's Michelle back with you today with way #2 to use the Crimson Charm Press-Tacular Plate. Last time I used it to create a beautiful embossed background full of texture. This week I am using it to hotfoil with. Let's get started, shall we!

So I had started my card for today in a slightly different direction. I had initially hot foiled the pressplate onto a piece of the BetterPress cardstock using some Opal foil. Opal foil is transparent with an iridescent finish to it. My idea was to do some ink blending over it, zto bring out the iridescent foiled lines of the image. Well it didn't quite foil properly as I had hoped and obviously the ink blending brought out the imperfections in it. However, I didn't throw this out, but rather kept this piece of cardstock to use.

I decided the foil the reverse image of the PressPlate with the foil from the above. I have never had much luck with foiling the reverse images, but thought as this was a smaller image it may work out better for me. So I heated up the solid hotfoil plate from PinkFresh Studio....I left it on the machine for maybe 5-10mins. I added the reverse foil image and my cardstock and ran it through. Above is before I removed the backing layer from the foil. You can see the gorgeous iridescent finish to it! I have no idea what the little black dots are from though...that I'll have to investigate lol.

I removed the protective backing from the foil and started doing some ink pad swiping with Distress Inks, directly to the foiled image, to bring out the floral image. As you can see I still didn't get a perfect foiled image, but I was happy with it. That's the most success I've had with that plate yet lol. I wiped off the excess ink from the foiled surface, as it will just it on it and won`t absorb into the slick foiled surface. I then proceeded to cut out the image using the coordinating die. I cut out a second blank image from some scrap paper for dimension.

I decided to use the original ink blended background, so I added some gold splatters to the ink blended area. Allow this to dry and triim it down to 3.75x5". Using the Bold & Beautiful stamp set, heat emboss the sentiment in gold to coordinate with the splatters and cut out.

Once the gold splatters are dry, adhere the foiled image and the sentiment using liquid adhesive and foam adhesive. Add a few of the Meraki Sparkle Golden Illusion Gems to finish it off.

It is so hard to capture this foil in a photo...the iridescence of it is beautiful! Using the reverse foiled image is a great way to get double for your buck, if you will. Instead of throwing out the piece of foil, try this if you have a solid hot foil plate, because who doesn't love a shiny foiled image!

Be sure to come back next week for the last and 3rd way to use the Press-Tacular Plates. Thank you so much for stopping by today at the blog. I wish you all the most wonderful and creative day! Until next time, Michelle :)

I’m thrilled to be joining WOW! Embossing Powder to celebrate their February 2025 Release—happening on Saturday, 15th February 2025! This is an epic release packed with an exciting range of new products, including the all-new 2025 Collection of Sparkles, the New & Improved Earth Sparkles Collection 2025, our signature Ultra High Collection, and a revolutionary line of NEW HOT Foils. In addition, you’ll find some fabulous singles, Duos, Trios, and Quads created by some of our very best Designers. You can find the entire new collection here.

The WOW! Design Team and our special guests have come together to showcase this inspiring launch, sharing creative ideas and innovative project concepts to help you craft your next masterpiece.

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But first, let’s dive into the inspiration!

For this project I used one of the gorgeous new additions to the ultra high collection Primary Indigo for the main part of the flower. This is a gorgeous rich indigo colour. I cut out the flower and did some ink smooshing with the Ultra Slow Drying Embossing Ink Pad, added the powder and then heat set it. I repeated this process twice, as I wanted a super glossy almost enamel look to the flower. But the really cool thing with this powder, is that the longer you hold your heat embossing tool on the powder, you can actually move it a bit and get a lighter almost lilac colour to it...that's the lighter purple colour you see at the top of the cupped flower. I really liked the way it looked, so I left it peeking out there. I added another one of the new powders, Ray of Sunshine to the middle of the flower for that bit of sparkle. I put my flowers together, added them to my background and that was it! Purple and gold go so well together and these powders are perfection together! The light and airiness of Ray of Sunshine compliments the richness of the Indio so well. Such regalness this is giving!

For my second project I used another addition the ultra high collection, Pastel Spring Glow. I did some embossing using a 3D embossing folder. I then ran my ultra slow embossing ink pad over the embossed raised areas and added on my embossing powder. Before heat setting the powder I took a small paintbrush and just removed and stray bits of powder that got in the areas I didn't want powder. I heat the teh powder and then added some gold splatters. I took the same gold paint and ran a paintbrush around the edges of it. The sentiment was added and that was it. I love the extra dimension the powder gives the already embossed image! This powder is such a pretty green and it just screams Spring (well it is int he name after all lol).

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