Card with a Floating Technique

Happy Sunday, peeps – today I’m sharing a card with a Floating Technique.

The “floating” technique has been the new big thing recently. As it was trending, I incorporated it into my Team Training Day Display projects in June.   It involves images grouped together and raised on foam pads so that they appear to be floating on your card.

There weren’t any small enough images in the stamp set so I fussy cut these smaller blooms from a sheet of Magnolia Lane Designer Series Paper.

What is the Floating Technique?

This technique was created by a lady whose husband is a scientist. He actually developed the concept of the Glad Press & Seal wrap. What does the Press & Seal wrap do?

• Protects food with a leak proof and airtight seal
• Seals tight to itself as well as on a variety of surfaces, such as paper, plastic, metal and wood
• Griptex technology is activated when pressure is applied
• Create custom shaped bags or individual portions for freezing, stacking and storing

It’s not readily available in the UK, and I purchased a roll of this through Amazon and it just lasts and lasts.  I’ve had the same roll for 5 years now! 

The concept of this technique is to lay all your images out on a piece of card stock. Then place the Press & Seal over all the pieces and the Press & Seal makes it stick together in one piece.  You trim off the excess and place it in your die cutting machine. Once you’ve die cut it with your desired die shape, apply dimensionals (or foam pads) over all the pieces on the reverse. Then you adhere it to your card base before removing the Press & Seal layer and you get this “floating” effect of all the die cuts on your card.

As you can see from the photo above, I die cut a rectangle in the centre which created a negative space. I was then able to create a second card using the other piece.

Enjoy your Sunday – thanks for popping by!