#TBT #ThrowbackThursday #StampinUp - Sharing my older SU Demo Cards 6 of 9 The AHA! Moment with Crystal Effects / Diamond Glaze

I skipped last week since I was concentrating on preparing as many full cards and to make them box ready for the Mother's Day shipment for From Our Hearts to send to our troops.

As I share with you this old creation of mine, I distinctly remember my glee as this card was coming together.  To this day, I still love this card!

I "think" I learned this technique by watching the Judikins stamp booth demonstration at my local stamping convention in my area that's put on by the owners of A Stamp in the Hand, who's stamps I also grew to love.  BUT, since I was a SU Demo at the time, again, I came home to apply what I just witnessed using only SU products.  When I shared my card in one of the scrapping forums many of my monthly crop attendees also frequented, I was so pleased with their delight and eagerness in participating in this technique demo.

1) I started with the large celestial image by stamping that on a piece of clear acetate with a Stazon Black ink pad since it had to be water proof and smudge proof.

2) Then, I squeezed on some Diamond Glaze (I had purchased a bottle from Judikins as it's their product I believe, but SU called their version Crystal Effects.  I still refer to it as Diamond Glaze to this day. Gotta give credit where credit is due. Judikins is where I learned how to use this stuff as an accent rather than just a super duper strong and permanent liquid adhesive.)

3) I added a 2-3 small droplets of Summer Sun Reinker and a few pinches of gold glitter. Used a Q-Tip to swish around the mixture.

4) Then I placed the white semi opaque back tissue of the acetate on top of the mixture to create a permanent sandwich that would dry due to the Diamond Glaze. It's important to somewhat crinkle that tissue sheet in order to get the grooves to allow the liquid and thus color to collect while it dries. This will then create those wonderful depth of glittery golden swirls of colors when viewing from the acetate front side of the completed image.

5) While that dried, I grabbed a piece of Night of Navy and stamped an accompanying celestial border stamp in Encore Metallic Gold ink. I didn't heat emboss it since there was a lot of work involved with the main tissue and acetate center piece already.

6) I felt it was too dark to leave as is, so I torn off the lower right hand corner to create space for a sentiment which came from the All Year Cheer 1 set.  I stamped the Summer Sun which I ended up matting the whole thing on in both Night as Navy and Summer Sun dye inks using the 2nd or 3rd impressions using 2 and 3 step stamping methods.

7) I trimmed all my pieces of cardstock for all matting and called it done.

A decade plus later, I ended up donating this prized card to our troops overseas via From Our Hearts. I figured I can't keep things forever, and I'll always have this image to come back to enjoy when I want to remember and cherish it.

Looking back now, I was and am so grateful to the ladies that attended my monthly stamp camp/crops regularly.  Their enthusiasm and support really helped encouraged me to keep on learning to share with them new to us techniques. And in demoing what I had just learned, it certainly helped to reinforce my understanding. To this day, I still remember how to do all of this that I'm sharing with you in my throwback postings.

This card certainly fills my heart with pride but it's the memories of that time in my life when my friends and I could share in that joyful electricity of shared creativity that I cherish the most!



  

"Merry & Bright Celestial" Tissue Acetate Technique Card 
Paper: SU Smooth White; SU Night as Navy CS: SU Summer Sun CS
Stamps: SU Sun Moon & Stars; SU All Year Cheer 1 ("merry & bright")
Ink: Black Stazon; Summer Sun Reinker; Gold Metallic Ink; SU Summer Sun; SU Night as Navy
Embellishments: Diamond Glaze/Crystal Effects; Gold Glitter
Tools: Clear Acetate Sheet 
Size: 5.25" x 4.25" rectangular