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Spellbinders BetterPress System: Unboxing & First Impressions

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Faux Watercolour Made Easy

1. Position your floral and sentiment on the Magnetic Chase and tape an a2 panel of Porcelain Cotton Cardstock onto the Platten.
2. Ink your plates using the Pounce & Pivot technique and snap the Platten into place.
3. Roll through your Platinum 6 and remove from the other side. Remove your Platten and take the panel off it.
4. The ink will be dry so you can continue on to colour straight away (or set aside whilst you play with the BetterPress more!)
5. Using a Tombow Blender Marker and Catherine Pooler inks, colour each of the petals in with your lighter colour. Add colour to the base of each petal and draw it up & out towards the tip. Go back in with your darker colour, adding it to anywhere you would naturally have shadow. Blend it out with more of that first colour.
6. Colour the leaves, adding colour directly to the base and up through the midline, then blend this colour out to the outer edges of the leaf. This will give you a natural highlight.
7. Lastly, colour the centres of the flowers. Add colour across the entire area, let it dry for a few seconds then add more pigment into the natural shadows.
8. Tear a piece of masking tape and roughly cover the sentiment to protect it, then splatter the panel with black ink/watercolour. Flick the colour off the edge of a gift card, or similar item, with your loaded paintbrush. (Direct the splatter by moving the gift card.)

Supplies

Affiliate links are used

Platinum 6 Shop at: SP | SBCom | SP UK	Best Ever Craft Tape Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom	BetterPress System Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom | SP UK	Porcelain BP Cardstock (a2) Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom | SP UK
BetterPress Black Reinker Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom | SP UK	Winter Wonderland Watercolour Brush Markers Shop at: Alt | SBC	Lilac Shop at: SBCOM | CPD	Crushed Violets Shop at: CPD
Whipped Honey Shop at: SBCOM | CPD	Tombow ABT Blender Shop at: Amaz UK	Sage CP Ink Shop at: SBCOM | CPD	Memo Tape Shop at: HD

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Debossed Metallic

1. Position the Grateful For You plate on your magnetic Chase and fix an a2 panel of Brushed Metallic cardstock onto the Platten. Roll through your Platinum 6 with out adding any ink.
2. Applay ink to the sentiment plate, and Press this into Porcelain cardstock. Die cut this piece.
3. Once you have your debossed metallic panel, wrap black thread around it vertically and fix to the back with strong double sided adhesive.
4. Separate more of that black thread into its individual strands and drop onto the centre of the panel. Move slightly, as required and once you’re happy with its placement, lock in by adhering the sentiment down on top with adhesive foam tape.

Supplies

Affiliate links are used

Platinum 6 Shop at: SP | SBCom | SP UK	Best Ever Craft Tape Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom	BetterPress System Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom | SP UK	Grateful For You BP Plates Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom | SP UK
Porcelain BP Cardstock (a2) Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom | SP UK	BetterPress Black Reinker Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom | SP UK	Brushed Rose Cardstock Shop at: Alt | SBC | MPS

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Half ImPressed With Ink

1. Tape an a2 panel of Pebble cardstock onto your Platten and place the Grateful For You plate onto your Magnetic Chase.
2. Apply a piece of Best Ever Craft Tape over the plate diagonally to mask off roughly half of it. Apply ink to the lower half, taking care to get ink right up to that taped line. Peel the tape off and roll through with the Platten in place. (The upper part without ink will deboss the pattern into the card.
3. Smoosh 2 shades of ink onto a piece of plastic packaging, spritz with water and carefully flip over and on to your Pressed panel. Use the plastic to move that ink around, lifting & moving it to get any areas that have been missed. Dry thoroughly.
4. Die cut the letters needed for ‘Best Dad Ever’ from both white cardstock and Silver brushed metallic. (To make assembly easier, add double sided adhesive to the back of the cardstock before die cutting.)
5. Stack up with the Silver on top. Arrange your letters how you would like them and lift them all in one go using Press’N Seal (or strips of tape). Adhere to the background panel.
6. Add a foiled sub sentiment (I love having the pre foiled and sitting on my desk to use whenever I want to add a touch of foil.)
7. Embellish with Prism gems.

Supplies

Affiliate links are used

Glimmer Hot Foil System Shop at: SP | SBCom | SP UK	AB Prism Gems Shop at: SP | SBCom	Platinum 6 Shop at: SP | SBCom | SP UK	Best Ever Craft Tape Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom
Black Glimmer Foil Shop at: SP | SP UK	Be Bold Uppercase Alpha Shop at: SP | SBCom | SP UK	Stylised Florals Glimmer Edge Shop at: SP | SP UK	BetterPress System Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom | SP UK
Grateful For You BP Plates Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom | SP UK	Porcelain BP Cardstock (a2) Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom | SP UK	Pebble BP Cardstock (a2) Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom	BetterPress Black Reinker Shop at: MPS | SP | SBCom | SP UK

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Please be aware:

As part of my Design Team and Guest Design work I do often receive free products to use, but I only ever recommend products that I genuinely love.

Also, I know how incredibly lucky I am to have these opportunities, but you don’t always NEED the newest products or the ‘full set’.
So please don’t feel that you need everything.
I like to show a variety of brands and products; this way there will be something for everybody to enjoy.

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— SUPPLIES —

— My Basic Supplies That I Use On Every Project —

Affiliate links are used

MINI MISTI Shop at: Scrapbookcom | Alt | SBP | Trinity	MISTI – Original Shop at: Scrapbookcom | Alt | SBP	Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive Shop at: Scrapbookcom | SBP | Craftstash UK | Craftstash US	Neenah 80lb Shop at: Scrapbookcom | Alt | Craftstash UK
Neenah 110lb Shop at: Alt	Gemini Jr Shop at: Scrapbookcom | Craftstash UK	Tim Holtz Trimmer 8.5inch Shop at: Scrapbookcom | Craftstash UK | Trinity	Tim Holtz Scissors 7inch Shop at: Scrapbookcom | Craftstash UK | Craftstash US
Tim Holtz Mini Snips 5inch Shop at: Scrapbookcom | Craftstash UK | Craftstash US	Tidy Tray Shop at: Trinity	Pick Up Stick Shop at: Trinity	Reverse Action Tweezers Shop at: Scrapbookcom | SBP
We R Trim & Scoreboard Shop at: Scrapbookcom	Pressure Tool Shop at: Trinity	Mini Trimmer Shop at: Scrapbookcom | Craftstash UK | Craftstash US	9.5 inch Shears Shop at: Craftstash UK | Craftstash US
Bone Folder Shop at: Alt	Self Healing Mat Shop at: Alt | SBC

*Affiliate links are used, where available; this means that I may get a small commission if you purchase using one of these links, at no extra cost at all to yourself. A huge thank you goes to anyone who does purchase using my links, it is so highly appreciated.