Savvy Saturday: Impressabilities™!
Spellbindersâ„¢ Impressabilitiesâ„¢ is a new embossing tool to use with the Spellbindersâ„¢ Wizardâ„¢. Â Spellbindersâ„¢ Impressabilitiesâ„¢ templates are made for embossing, debossing, embellishing and more. The templates measure 4.5 x 5.75″, and are made of thin metal. Spellbindersâ„¢ Impressabilitiesâ„¢ emboss in the Wizardâ„¢ using the same sandwich you would use to emboss Spellbindersâ„¢ Die Templates, which is:
White Master Mat
Impressabilities Template
Paper or other material to emboss
Tan Embossing Mat
White Master Mat
Design Team Member Holly Craft had a chance to play with the Impressabilities™ and is sharing her artwork today. Shown above is the poster she made for the CHA Innovations display. Lets delve deeper into the artwork.
On this card, the dark blue background is embossed with Spellbindersâ„¢ I2-1002 Impressabilitiesâ„¢ Butterfly onto velvet paper. The focal point square is embossed and letter pressed, then Holly added butterflies that she cut from the unused portion of the paper. To achieve the inked look, first apply ink to the Impressabilities template. Then build your sandwich as listed above, with the inked template facing the paper. This will apply ink to the debossed areas of the paper. Then, while the ink is still wet on the template, put another piece of paper in the sandwich and run it through the Wizardâ„¢ again. You will get the same embossing result, but a lighter, second generation inking. Use this for matting.
On this card Holly embossed the Spellbindersâ„¢ Impressabilities Paisley template into craft foil, and sanded the embossed areas of the foil. Then when Holly cut/embossed the Classic Heart die template, the original embossing flattens out, but still leaves the beautiful pattern.
This card employs two techniques with ink and Impressabilities Snowflake. The background of the card is letter pressed, as explained above. The square mounted on the scalloped die cut is embossed. Then when Holly took the sandwich out of the Wizard she flipped it over, took off the White Master Mat and applied ink to the paper thru the Impressabilities template, just like you would with a stencil. So yes, you could ink the template from either side for 2 different effects!
On this card, Holly first embossed the Flower Impressabilities template onto Core’dinations cardstock, then sanded it to reveal the colored core. Then she airbrushed Copic markers onto a piece of Premium Craft Foil, cut/embossed it, and then sanded off the embossed areas of the metal die cuts.
This last card requires an extra tan embossing mat. Holly used a circle cutter to cut this mat.
Instead of using the entire embossing mat, Holly only used the cut-out circle on the part she wanted embossed. Holly calls this selective embossing. She placed the Spellbinders’ Impressabilities template on the White Master Mat, placed her paper on top of it, then the circle, then the White Master Mat and fed the sandwich into the Wizard. Just the section covered by the the tan circle embossed! Additional tan embossing mats are available for purchase if you want to experiment with this technique.
Thank you Holly for starring in today’s Savvy Saturday!
Spellbinders’ Impressabilities will be shipping to your favorite Spellbinders’ retailer the first week of March.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Beth
Tags: Copic, Core'dinations, Holly Craft, I2-1001 Impressabilitiesâ„¢ Paisley, I2-1002 Impressabilitiesâ„¢ Butterfly, I2-1003 Impressabilitiesâ„¢ Snowflake, I2-1004 Impressabilitiesâ„¢ Flower, Impressabilitiesâ„¢, Premium Craft Foil
January 31st, 2009 at 7:59 am
Absolutly amazing…I want to get these ASAP!!
January 31st, 2009 at 7:59 am
Very cool, love these!
January 31st, 2009 at 9:46 am
Great techniques & inspiration! Thanks, Holly :0)
Love the outcome of these Impressabilities…hmm, I see a couple I NEED NOW! LOL!!
January 31st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Wow these look absolutely fantastic! I can hardly wait till March to see them IRL. Though unfortunately we don’t have ANY stamp or scrapbook stores with 30 minutes of me…….
January 31st, 2009 at 5:52 pm
The “Impressabilities” are great! I am so impressed with them and am anxious to try them. I don’t have a retailer in my area, that I know of. I live in the Portland , Or - Vancouver, WA area. Where would I find a retailer in this area? I do order from Spellbinders from time to time, but it would be nice to see them first.
January 31st, 2009 at 8:09 pm
All I can say is OHHHHH, and I want them…:D
February 1st, 2009 at 7:17 am
One note, sometimes it is hard to get the beautiful embossing to show up in photos on the suede paper (like on the black suede paper I used on the foil heart card and the burgandy suede paper on the floral card). You can see it in real life but not on the photos. For the blue butterfly card, I actually added a blue ink to the Impressability before I sent it through the Wizard with the suede paper for debossing. That way, you can really see the detail and it shows up in photos. Remember, beautiful details do inspire creativity!
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
oh wow, these look so cool! Having some examples of how you used helped to see all the possiblities of this cool new product!!! Thanks so much!
February 6th, 2009 at 9:30 am
AAA-MAAA-ZZZING! Wow! I can’t wait to get my hands of some of those Impressabilities! I absolutely adore every single one of them. They are so versatile. Oh the ideas……..and possibilities with Impressabilities! Woo-Hoo!