DT Spotlight Tutorial - Zahraa
Hello Zahraa here with a tutorial on how to make a vintage card. Fabric designs and colours have been a huge inspiration to me lately. For this card I wanted to mimic a piece of embossed vintage velvet that I had seen. How fun to translate designs into something real for me as a paper crafter. Step one: Paint a piece of recycled card stock with a thin layer of Gesso and talc powder. Try and paint in two directions to create texture. Step two: Use three colours of distress oxide and black acrylic paint and paint over the 'gessoed' piece. Notice how the gesso texture really comes alive when you add colour to it. I started with touches of black paint first, then added distress oxides in selected areas. Step three: Leave the ink to dry and then emboss a pattern onto the card stock piece using an embossing folder and your machine. The pattern doesn't look like much until the next step. Step four: Use your black ink pad and lightly sw...