A Year of Card Techniques ~ January Blog Hop ~ Shaving Cream

Welcome to a Year of Card Techniques 2017:

January - Shaving Cream Marbleizing

Another year of fun techniques is starting and we made it even more exciting. There will be a special prize waiting for one of you each month, so remember to comment below. And since we love comments please do so each month and spread the word. More details about this months prizes will be at the end of this post.

Now on with the projects:

So after I made a little mess in my kitchen, I ended up with quite a few samples. I have to say, even so this technique is a bit messy, it is also a lot of fun and your cards smell really good and so does your kitchen afterwards ... LOL! 

For this technique you don't really need a lot of things. I used some cheap shaving cream (you have to use old fashion shaving cream not gels), a baking sheet covered with aluminum foil, a squeegee that fitted over my paper and all of this placed right next to the sink.

Since I could only find two re-inkers in my stack that didn't really worked together, I went to my local craft store and picked up some inexpensive acrylic paints. One set was peach, dark-orange and gold and the other combination was light blue, blue, teal and silver. I also bought some white too.

I was experimenting a lot and while some of my creations show a ton of marbling, others are a bit more settled. Never the less I picked only a few for this months challenge and keep the rest for projects sometime later this year. I have a couple ideas in my head :-) 

I will have a more detailed description on how this technique works and how I made the cards shown here on my "Technique Friday" segment here on the blog.

So what do you do with all these wonderful creations? Well for me it was all about the beautiful marbling. You want to show off these colors and designs, right? 

This z-fold card was on my list to make for a while and with these wonderful marbled papers I thought I found the perfect match. The card design leaves me a lot of opportunity to show of the beautiful paper.

My second thought was, could I use dies to cut out the paper or would the paper loose its interest? Well, I think you can use dies, but they should have lot's of big areas that will show the paper intact. I think the one I used works fine, but I definitely not use a very delicate one.

My next example is another z-fold card but this time I used the blue toned marble paper. The closed card shows the marbled paper just a bit, but once you open the card you will see the whole beauty of it.  

Last but not least....My "Happy Birthday & Best Fishes" card. This blue marble paper just reminded me of the ocean. So I couldn't resist.... I had to make some waves ...

Well, what do you think about these projects? We love to hear from you, please leave a comment and hop over to the talented Wilma ..... and see what she came up with this month.

In case you got lost on the way, here is today's lineup:

Theresa - http://scrapsbygracie.blogspot.com/2017/01/January2017TechHop.html

Kim - http://katydidcards.com/january-technique-blog-hop-shaving-cream

Lisa - http://lisaslittlerascals.blogspot.com/2017/01/a-year-of-card-techniques-january.html

Claudia - You are here...

Wilma - http://stampintotheoldies.blogspot.com/2017/01/JanuaryTechnique.html

Sandy - http://www.scrapbookblessingsclub.com/2017/01/welcome-to-year-of-card-techniques-2017.html

Jodie - http://stampin-jodie.blogspot.com/2017/01/a-year-of-card-techniques-january-hop.html

Here is this months chance to win:

Prize Info: One winner will be chosen from all comments on the hop as of February 4th and receive one "Sending Love" Designer Series 6"x6" paper stack and ribbon combo. The January winner will be announced in February's hop! 

Don't forget to comment and stay tuned...a detailed description of the technique will follow on the next two Fridays on my blog.