Heat Embossing with Reactive Inks

Christmas Reactive Inks

Oct 09, 2019 Jessica Frost-Ballas

Good morning! Jess here with a clean and simple holiday card in a non-traditional color palette! :)

I love the retro feel of this month's add-ons and decided to use a classic pink and aqua palette for my card. To start I inked the tree from Meowy Christmas using Taffy and Berry Smoothie Reactive inks. I kept the Taffy at the top of the tree and the Berry Smoothie at the bottom. One fun thing about the Reactive inks is that they dry a little slower than most inks so you can actually use them for heat embossing! So once I stamped the tree I quickly sprinkled it with Sparkle embossing powder and heated it for a sparkly pink finish! I also stamped my sentiment with Embossing and Watermark ink and heat embossed it with Black embossing powder.

Next I stamped the images from Meowy Christmas with Intens-ified Black ink and colored them with Copic markers before die-cutting them with the coordinating dies. I layered the presents and the cute kitty around my tree and adhered them with a mix of regular adhesive and foam mounting tape for a little dimension. Finally I added a little Copic coloring to the balls on the tree and topped them with a layer of Crystal Clear Lacquer for a little extra shine! And that's it! Simple, sparkly, and there's a cat...so it's perfect for me! ;)

Thanks so much for stopping by today and have a wonderful day!

Jessica Frost-Ballas

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12 Responses

Leni

October 21, 2019

Fun card! Love the colors. Thank for the info on the reactive Inks!

Stephanie B

October 16, 2019

Ooo, I didn’t know the reatives were good for embossing, I’ll have to try it on my next card. Thanks for another great tip!

Kathy H

October 09, 2019

LOVE this retro vibe!

nancy f

October 09, 2019

Look the clean and simple card!

Terrie D.

October 09, 2019

What a sweet card! Such a fun color combo. :) I love the sparkley tree and cute cat!

Henriëtte

October 09, 2019

Gorgeous Jess, I love the colours you used. Thank you so much for sharing.

Mischelle

October 09, 2019

Gotta love a pink tree. I see them every so often. One year we had a decorated d in a pink tree. ( four daughters, how could I not?). I made pink bows with stiffener starch, painted pint balls, decorated a bunch of gingerbread men with pink, along the edges. We couldn’t find any pink lights, (quite a few years back this was), so we used red lights that we had forever. Because they were old, they glowed a dark pinkish/purple cause the red was burning out. I would say, the tree got 50% like a few, “whys”, and a lot of male grumblings. Your tree ROCKS!