Acetate Smooshing

Hello & welcome! I'm playing along with Darnell's IDEAS program - this week, I is for INKS. Darnell inspired me HERE with her acetate smooshing. I decided to try it on some Betterpress Porcelain paper; here's my result:

Supplies: Paper - Bazzill A2 card; scraps of black, white & orange;

Spellbinders Betterpress Porcelain

Press Plate w/Dies - Spellbinders Swirl Birthday Frame 

& You Are Everything Sentiments

Dies - Waffle Flower Painted Flowers Layering Die;

A Jillian Vance Design Stitched Dot Rectangle Backdrop Set;

Poppystamps Fanciful Fall Leaves (retired);

Frantic Stamper Bouquet Builder

Other - Spellbinders Essential Gems;

TH Distress Oxide Inks - Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, 

Spiced Marmalade, Cracked Pistacio, Salvaged Patina, 

Barn Door, Fired Brick, & Crackling Campfire

I pressed the ink pads (did a couple at a time) to the acetate and spritzed with water. Applied the paper to the acetate and then acetate to paper as Darnell suggested. Then repeated with different colors. Once dry, I pressed with the Swirl Birthday Frame and die cut with a stitched rectangle. I blended some Salvaged Patina into the edges and on areas that had no smooshing. Added to an A2 card along with a pressed sentiment and some die cuts from the bits box.

I was going to link to another card where I used this Betterpress frame but realized I never blogged it! So here is that card using the sentiment (with coordinating sentiment die) from the set:

On this one, I spritzed some Betterpress Bisque paper with some Hero Arts shimmer sprays and let dry before pressing the swirl plate. I pressed then die cut the sentiment; inked the edges & added to the center of the frame plus some gold dots to the corners. Since this was the first use of the press plate, I'll add it to Darnell's June NBUS Challenge #63.

Thanks for stopping and have a crafty day!!