A1 Ebi Sushi (Shrimp)

A2 Tamago

Close-up of Ebi. Simply dry emboss and use pink marker.  That's it.  For really speedy work, run it through a die cut machine with a rubber gasket.

Close-up of Tamago. I used 2 shades of yellow marker.  Yum!

A3 Ikura

A6 Sushi

Close-up of Ikura. Black marker with tiny strokes for nori.  Orange and red marker for eggs with 3D Crystal Lacquer on top for extra shine and dimension. Oishi! 

 Close-up of Sushi.  Makes me hungry. 

Sushi Board

A4 Miso Soup

 The Sushi Board! Dry embossed on Aspire Petallics cover stock and colored in marker.  Simple and so fun!  I used A3 Ikura , A1 Ebi, A2 Tamago & A6 Sushi stencils. Mounted on wood print paper, inked with brown stamp pad and the Tanzaku Shikishi board.

Full Glitter technique with A4 Miso Soup Stencil and Purple Ultrafine Opaque glitter. Mounted on Yuzen Chiyogami 83  

A4 Miso Soup

A7 Purse

This is part 4 of 4 on my waterfall card.  It is stenciled with pigment inks and a stencil brush. 

Stipple stenciled right onto the black paper with two shades of pink acrylic paint using A7 Pouch stencil.  After that dries, dapple on touches of Hi-Lite Red Lumiere. Next, paste emboss with Dreamweaver translucent paste.  When dry, edge with silver extra-fine Decomarker.  The corners are a Tonic Studio punch.

A8 Pom pom mum

A8 Pom pom mum

I cut thin metal foil out with the pinking circles dies of Spellbinders and then embossed them with the Pom pom mum stencil and folded the foil over.  Then I dropped alcohol ink over it and rubbed with a cotton swab to get colors on both sides of the foil.  

 This is a close-up of paste embossing through A8 Pompom Chrysanthemum using Super Heavy Bodied Liquitex Artist Acrylic.  I loaded Yellow Medium Azo and Acra Crimson onto the palette knife and then ran it over the stencil.  For more details on pasting technique, go to the Learn! page.

A9 8 point star hanabishi

A9 8 point Star Hanbishi

 I painted 3 colors of Lumiere acrylic paints onto lightweight white cardstock-citrine, pearl magenta & pearl blue. Then, dry emboss (I like the Wizard for the best press) through A9 Hanabishi Star stencil and sand away the layers of paint where you want to see the other colors.  

This is pasted with the Basic Liquitex acrylic paints from the tube.  

A10 Bell Pepper Flower

A10 Bell Pepper Flower

The flower is stenciled with pigment inks.  The punches is from Tonic Studios and I put a mark on the system board to mark how much to turn the circle to get 10 punches in the circle.

A10 Bell Pepper Flower

A10 Bell Pepper Flower

Left & Right: Paste embossed using Super Heavy Body Liquitex Yellow through A10 Bell Pepper Flower stencil onto navy cardstock.  Before removing stencil, paint the center with Lumiere Hi-Lite Blue.  Paint shouldn't go under because the paste is at stencil level.  Remove stencil and let it dry.  The high-polished stainless steel stencils makes clean up easy.  Rub a mylar foil sheet onto the paste.  I used Jones Tones Pearl Swirl.  Next, I brushed on Russet Pearl Ex powder. The punch is the Alvin multi-shape Jemma.

A10 Bell Pepper Flower

A11Gate

The flower was stenciled with oil pastels and a stencil brush.  The punch is an Alvin multi-shape punch.

This is part 1 of 4 on the waterfall card.  Each picture opens up and gets pulled back as the paper labeled "pull" is - pulled. The gate is stenciled with pigment inks.

A12 Wisteria Square

A12 Wisteria Square

Paste embossed with Dreamweaver's white embossing paste through A12 Wisteria Square stencil onto white cardstock.  Yasutomo Irridiscent watercolors painted on top.  Alvin multi-shaper punch Tiara on white paper.

This Wisteria square is heat embossed with Blue Pearl embossing powder by Ranger.  The die cuts are from the Lattice Spellbinders dies.  I used Memories Mist on the background with a Tattered Angel template.  The Swarovski rhinestones are from Kandi Korp.

A12 Wisteria Square

A13 Mum with Handles

This is embossed vellum.  After I did the center, I moved the stencil over to get a partial on each side.

Full Glitter technique with A13 Mum with Handles Stencil and Blue Hawaii Ultrafine Opaque glitter.  Mounted on Yuzen Origami 450.

A13 Mum with Handles

A14 Honeycomb

I used two colors of glitter, using a brush and the Full Glitter technique.

 More Full Glitter techniqueand Yuzen origami paper.

A16 Hana Kaji

A16 Hana Kaji

This apron is stenciled with Basic Liquitex tube acrylics.  I looks like poppies to me.

I used the moldable foam from Clearsnap to get the stencil impression and then stamped the flower.

A17 Daruma

A19 Kokeshi Doll

Lisa Blank at work again with Mr. Daruma stencil A17. She traced and cut black and red cardstock, and stipple stenciled black acrylic paint onto a wood board. When you give a Daruma-san, it has no eyes. The recipient colors in an eye with a wish, when the wish comes true, the other eye is colored in.  

Lisa Blank designed this card with the A19 Kokeshi Doll stencil.  The applique stenciling technique is done by dry embossing, cutting and then layering.  The paper is Japanese Toys.  Red and blue markers define some of the debossed lines you can't see in the pattern.  She chalked in the cheeks and used a Micron .08 pen for the eyes.  The red die cuts are from Spellbinder.  She used a gold DecoColor extra fine pen for the edges and a cork back ruler so the ink doesn't run under the ruler. 

A19 Kokeshi Doll

A20 Water or Clouds (with Hanabishi on stenci)

The Kokeshi doll is all heat embossed.  First you dry emboss, then cut apart, and then heat emboss.  I used Super Fine black, California Stucco, and Oriental Red with Crystal Sparkles - all from Ranger.

The cloud stencil was used for the background.  I used 4 colors of blue Memories Mist sprays.  The swirls are freehand Lumiere Super Sparkle acrylic paint.  The butterflies are cut out of Origami.

A21 Wild Orange Blossom

A21 Wild Orange Blossom

I used a cotton swab and alcohol inks on clear craft plastic with A21 Wild Orange Blossom stencil.  Under it is a Kodomo Kimono paper and the Craft Chiyogami papers.

This is the Full Glitter technique with 4 different colors of glitter.  The punches are Martha Stewart punches and Fiskars.  The pearls are from Kandi Korp. 

A21 Wild Orange Blossom

A23 Tea Hut

Full Glitter Technique again! with origami strips.

The tea house is heat embossed with 3 different powders.  The dies are Sizzlets and Spellbinders.

A23 Tea Hut

A23 Tea Hut

This tea house is stenciled with alcohol inks and a felt pad and then padded again on top of the stenciled card.

This is part 3 of 4 of the waterfall card.  This tea house is stenciled with pigment inks.

A24 Rope Flower

A24 Rope Flower

Full Glitter technique with A24 Rope Flower stencil and Hot Lava & Michigan Moss Ultrafine Opaque glitter.  Mounted on Yuzen Chiyogami 83.  I messed up on the Hot Lava rope flower by peeling the stencil away from the mounting adhesive, rather than laying down the stencil and peeling away the paper.  So I covered it up with another one. 

This is one of the surfaces of a neverending card.  The papers are hand marbled. The stencil was dry embossed onto white core paper and sanded.

A25 9-loop knot

A25 9-loop knot

Crackle Paste Embossing through A25 Nine loop knot. Also outlined with black marker.  Mounted on Yuzen Origami 450.  

Another surface of a neverending card. This stencil is simply traced with a fine Sharpie onto specialty gold paper.  The die is a Spellbinders Label. The paper is hand marbled.

A26 Star Knot

A27 Knot

A27 Knot

A27 Knot

A28 Ginko

A29 3-Plum Flowers

 Sandy Lutz designed this Gingko card.  Simply dry embossed using A28  gingko stencil  on gold tone cardstock.

 2 techniques again.  Dry emboss A29 3 Plum Blossoms stencil on white core, pink cardstock.  Sand the top pink layer of paper away.  Next, spray ink onto Rayon paper.

A29 3 Plum Flowers

A29 3 Plum Blossoms

A31 3 Water Plantains

A31 3 Water Plantains

Three colors of paint were stenciled onto black paper and then sanded.  I cut the circle stencil into three pieces and mounted them onto cream and inked around the edges.  The bottom is ripped Chigirie papers.

Full Glitter technique and thin strips of black paper to give lots of borders. 

A32 Cross Knot

The stencils were pasted with Dreamweavers silver pastes.  One side has the Judi-kins Rox on it.

Simple dry embossing onto metallic paper.  Martha Stewart punch.

A33 Ume

A33 Ume

Dry embossed A33 Plum Blossom onto peach, white-cored cardstock, sanded, and then chalked with yello in the center.  Kandi hotfix Swarovski rhinestones add sparkle! Die cuts with Spellbinder.

Full Glitter technique with offset circles. 

A34 Morning Glory in the Round

A35 Tangled Mum

 Moldable foam was heated up and pressed onto a stencil and then used like a stamp.  It was colored in with Marvy markers onto the foam and then stamped.

 Full Glitter technique with A35 Tangled Chrysanthemum stencil and Cornflower Ultrafine Opaque glitter.

A38 Water Plantain

A38 Water Plantain

A40 Clover

A40 Clover

A30, A37, A14, A36, A48, A33, A40, A10, A44

A42 Diamond Mum

A42 Diamond Mum

First dry emboss A42 Diamond Kiku Bishi stencil.  Next, use a pigment rainbow stamp pad and tap until fully covered.  Remove stencil and pour on Ultra Thick Embossing Powder.  Tap off and melt with heat gun.  The punch on white is the Alvin multi-shape Marta.

A43 Wisteria

A43 Wisteria

A45 Crane

Full glitter technique with A45 crane stencil.  Go to Learn! page to read instructions on this technique. This is mounted on the Washi Chiyogami pack 2112. 

A47 Hollyhock

A49 Suzu (Bell)

A51 & A50

A50 Swords

 2 stenciled embellishments on shikishi board.  Letters were cut with the Klik-n-Kut Groove-e.  Lisa suggested I always start gluing the letters from the center, even if I've already lined them up.  Then they won't get scrunched at the end.  Good lesson!

 Close-up of heat embossed A50 Swords.  This time I used thick silver embossing powder and still got great detail on the handle shield part. I just love it!

A51 Samurai Helmet

A51 Samurai Helmet

Close-up of heat embossed A51 Samurai helmet.  First dry emboss. I used a heavy cover stock made with vellum for more flexibility.  With the stencil still on the paper, tap an embossing pad over it.  Remove the stencil and pour on fine gold embossing powder.  Add heat and voila.  Super detail!  

A52 3 Winds

A53 Taiko

Tracing and coloring in with marker can get messy, but I put strips of cardstock under the edges of the A53 Taiko Drum stencil and it kept the ink from running under the stencil. I used a combination of Decomarkers and Micron pens.  I just printed the words from the computer.  

A54 Anchor

A54 Anchor

 Traditional stipple stenciling with Lumiere Indigo paint using A54 Anchor stencil.  Outside words from a poem website about anchors.  Outside border is 1/4" strips of paper laid one by one in counter-clockwise order.

A55 Feathers

A56 Wheat

2 techniques on this card.  Dry emboss A55 Feathers stencil on silver cardstock.  Then stipple stencil with a brush and a silver stamp pad on the white textured cardstock.  The middle strip is alcohol inked onto glossy photo paper. 

 With A56 Wheat Crest stencil, I overlayed dry embossed cloud vellum onto a brown ink stippled gold cardstock.  The corners have more stippling.  I used a 1/4" stipple brush and a Cat's Eye pigment pad.