Waffle Flower – Grip Mat Launch Party

Hey friends! I’m over the moon to have a fun card and tutorial to share with you today featuring the new Waffle Flower Grip Mats! They’re so cool, easy to use and definitely handy to have in your crafty tool stash! I officially, highly recommend!

Today I tested them with ink blending multiple layers and spreading glitter paste for my base card panel. It worked beautifully and seamlessly. Let’s take a step by step look at things.

I grabbed all my pieces, plus a panel of white A2 size cardstock to ink on. This will be cut down later but it’s always smart to start bigger and trim later.

Die cut your panel with the pop-up butterflies background die so you can line up your stencils.

Place your grip mat on your work surface, then add your cardstock and finally line up your layer 1 stencil over that. I’m using a 6×6 grip mat today so there is an edge to hold the stencil around my paper. It’s perfect!

I ink blended layer 1 of the stencil, swapped for layer 2 adding a different color. Then I was feeling froggy so I added layer 1 back in place and spread glitter glaze over the top. The cardstock held perfectly the entire time and each stencil stayed perfectly in place while I was using it too!

Here’s my panel, peeled off the grip mat to be set aside to dry. I suppose you could leave it on the grip mat to dry but let’s be real…I immediately grabbed another piece of cardstock and kept playing because this thing was AWESOME!

After the panel was done drying, I die cut it with an infinity rectangle die and popped it up on a piece of blue cardstock that coordinated with my blue ink blending. Then I cut the Oversized Smile word from Spellbinders die cutting glitter foam and the shadow from vellum. I used liquid glue to adhere them together and to my card front.

Last, I glued the panel to a white card base and then went around creasing my butterflies open where the sentiment would allow. Isn’t this just beautiful?!?

I’m so happy with how it turned out and truly believe it was smoother and easier using the grip mats. Be sure to check them out, affiliate links below. But also, head to my Instagram and enter to with an A2 grip mat to test out yourself! Commenting closes July 30 for that.