Embossing Folder Autumn Monoprints

 Hello, and thank you for visiting my blog!  Autumn is my favorite "color" season so I tend to make a lot of projects in the Autumn, especially since the garden and yard have all been put to bed for the Winter and the kids are out of the house (college and work!) giving me a little extra time to be creative🎨

Here are the cards that came out of some of the Autumn prints! 

I like to get the most out of my craft supplies that I can so I don't cringe too much when I find another "gotta have"!!!  This time I used my little spring birds embossing folder and colored it up with a heavy coat of oil pastels.  Then I made several prints from each color combination I applied, trying to specifically address the iconic colors of each of the 4 seasons!                   

A big "THANK YOU!" to Creative Scrapbooker Magazine for publishing this one in their current Autumn 2020 copy.

I like to get a lot of prints off of each color application.  This is one of the last prints, you can see the color is fading a lot.  I love them, each one is so unique!

If you would like to see more, here's a link to that post "Mono-printing from Embossing Folders"

Meanwhile, If you would like to show off your own results please feel free to post them on my "Hi!" Notes page on Facebook!!  I would love to see them and hear your ideas!

Thanks again for stopping by, Happy Autumn 🍁

Mono~Printing from Embossing Folders

Win a CGull embossing folder!  See rules at the end of this blog!

Mono-Printing: A form of printing in which each print is a one-of-a-kind

One of my favorite techniques!  I have been making dozens of mono-prints lately; maybe because they are so easy, maybe because they are simply beautiful, maybe because once they are done you can add a sentiment and have a beautifully complete card...  The reasons go on & on!!

Each time I pull a print I get a little giddy about 'the next one!!!  I am a color addict and there is just no end to the color combinations and intensities that can be achieved this way.  

Here is a quick tutorial on how to get some fun results. (and instant gratification!)

Supplies:
Oil Pastels
Embossing Folders
Water Mister
Paper
I use Prima oil pastels, but you could try paints or water reactive ink with equally beautiful but very different results.  Add to that any textured surface you can apply your color to.  Fabric, pottery, I have even seen mono-prints made from real fish!!!  I use embossing folders because they are easy to clean, readily available and come in SOOOO many beautiful patterns!  I use plain white 110lb card stock.  The results look like water color but you don't need watercolor paper.  I encourage you to be adventurous though, and try other types! 

Simply apply the oil pastel to the  raised areas of the embossing folder.  I don't always cover the entire surface, remember, the color spreads so just a little goes a long way!  once you have your colors on just give it a HEAVY mist of water. 

Here the lower image has been dry brushed with inks

Lay your paper over the embossing folder. You can smooth it or just place and lift, each will give you a different look.  Often the color will be 'drippy' so you'll have to be quick to pull the paper and get it flipped upright to dry.
  
I know the term mono indicates one, but now that you have a colored and wet folder you can pull additional prints that will each be a little different.  Spritz, place and pull you next print. I have found that I can get 5 or 6 really nice prints from one color job, sometimes I add a little color here & there before re-spritzing.  

Isn't it fun!!! You can take any folder through every season!!

You can also achieve a beautiful shimmering result by simply adding 

Perfect Pearls to the water spritzer.  

Here are a couple of my finished cards.  If you'd like to see more (and I have a LOT!) just click the label below "Mono-Print" and several from this blog will pull up :)

HAPPY MONO-PRINTING!  

Feel free to post your results on my "Hi!" Notes Facebook page, we'd all love to seem them! 

  In fact, I'll be giving away a CGull Leaf Floral embossing folder to one lucky person 

who follows this blog, comments below and posts their own mono-print 

(does not have to be a finished project) on the "Hi!" Notes FB page!!! 

Shipping to Continental US only but everyone is welcome to share their projects!

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Gloomy Day Sunshine

Gloomy days are inevitable :/  But this Beautiful image from Unity Stamp Company makes them easier to bear!

I began by stamping and embossing the image on top a a gray/blue combination mono-printed from a Sunny Studio embossing folder.  

If you look closely you'll see that the oil pastel stripes pass through the open spots in the stamp but blended out almost entirely. 

One secret is... the rain coat was meant to be bright yellow, but when I used the Zig water color over the mono-print, it blended into this electric green!!

A second mono-print in traditional sunshine colors was stamped with the sentiment, fussycut and then placed over the background like a little window of sunshine! 

To finish, I used Nuvo crystal drops to make shiny puddles in the background and to form a horizon line.  For fun I added a little electric green to make a reflection off of her dress. 

Inspires all kinds of cloud stamping over sunburst ideas, doesn't it!!

Well, thanks for stopping by.  I hope for your rainy days to be full of crafting, and maybe even some long wonderful walks 💜💜

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Mono-Print Tutorial Here

HELLO.....again

Hello again friends!!  Sharing another of my mono-print background creations!  They are each so unique and pretty it's hard to share just one!!  With so much color and movement I decided to keep this card large and mostly naked!
The vintage Stampin' Up! sentiment is open so it hides nothing and the Lindy's Stamp Gang embossing powder is dark and shimmery enough to keep it from getting lost in the background.  The sprigs are happy left overs from earlier card making and they really helped to add a dimensional interest without being plain. Jasper Leaves/Memory Box

The "hello outline" die cuts are thickened with several plain white layers + a pretty "pop!" of color on top :)

a shimmery line of glitter finishes the edges

If you are interested in my mono-printing technique, I will be sharing a quick tutorial soon.  Click the 'follow' link to the left and feel free to also follow by e-mail (below, left) so that you'll be in the know when it posts!

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a beautiful day ~

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If you would like some mono-printing information Click Here!

HELLO Sunshine!

The days may still be a little gloomy but the sunshine is on its way!!! 

Recently I have developed a love for mono-printing!  It's called MONO printing because each image pulled is a one of a kind.  What remains unexpressed in the name is that it is anything but mono!!!  I have pulled up to 5 prints from a single color job, although each print is very different ~ they are addictive and gorgeous and so fun to work with!!

                            

This beautiful and simple card begins with a mono-printed background using a Sunny Studio's embossing folder and Prima Oil Pastels!  Bright white die-cuts & a beautiful burst of color for the backdrop in the "Hello Outline" die by Poppystamps notches up the energy! 

The multi-colored paper is actually something from my used wrapping paper stash.  It has veins of gold foil so of course I kept it!!! Plus I love to recycle!!  

If you like instant gratification, then mono-printing from embossing folders may be for you!!  After trying several combinations of 'traditional' sunburst colors I started to explore shades of blue and gray.  Because I was able to quickly make a dozen backgrounds in each I made myself stop, but I do have plans to try out color combos like black and white, 70's earth tones... it's endless & so far I haven't had one that I didn't like!

Want to learn how it's done? Here's a quick tutorial 

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A True Friend

The Greatest of all Blessings

Hello Friends!! Another fun card using my enormous stash of mono-printed backgrounds!!  This time I paired one with 2 great stamps from Unity Stamp Company, an embossed background and a random sprig of left-over diecut from another project!!  The heat embossed powder from Lindy's Stamp Gang really gives the sentiment a beautiful metallic finish.

Maybe another thing to note: I die cut a doily shape out of vellum and also a circle frame, layered 3 deep, to host the sentiment.  Layering the circle frames not only gives a great surface for attaching the vellum, but it also lifts the vellum off of the paper without completely obscuring the background pattern/colors underneath!

Intrigued by mono-printing?  It's a forgiving art form ~ fun and honestly addictive.  Every day I think to myself, "Can I justify making just a few more in new colors?"  Well, of course I can!  But really, I already have SO many made I am trying to use them up a little first!!  Honestly! They go with everything!!  If  you want to see more be sure to click the follow button on the left.  I will be posting a mono-printing with embossing folders tutorial soon!

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