This St. Patrick's Day card features a technique that is new to me. It's a type of emboss resist that we did using an embossing folder. Emboss a piece of waxed paper in the embossing folder with your Big Shot. Then sandwich the piece of embossed waxed paper between two pieces of glossy cardstock (glossy side in) and iron between parchment paper. Don't forget the parchment paper... it is used to protect your iron. I ironed with a dry iron on a cotton setting for about 10 seconds. When you are done, the wax will be left on your glossy cardstock and you can then brayer over it with your color and you've got an awesome background piece to work with. Because you are sandwiching the waxed paper between two pieces of cardstock, you actually have two very different looking pieces to work with. And on this card, I only used half of one sheet which yields 4 cards. The stamps are from the Sale-a-bration set So Happy For You.
This St. Patrick's Day card features a technique that is new to me. It's a type of emboss resist that we did using an embossing folder. Emboss a piece of waxed paper in the embossing folder with your Big Shot. Then sandwich the piece of embossed waxed paper between two pieces of glossy cardstock (glossy side in) and iron between parchment paper. Don't forget the parchment paper... it is used to protect your iron. I ironed with a dry iron on a cotton setting for about 10 seconds. When you are done, the wax will be left on your glossy cardstock and you can then brayer over it with your color and you've got an awesome background piece to work with. Because you are sandwiching the waxed paper between two pieces of cardstock, you actually have two very different looking pieces to work with. And on this card, I only used half of one sheet which yields 4 cards. The stamps are from the Sale-a-bration set So Happy For You. 
cool sounding technique! Looks good.
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