A Closer Look at Modeling Pastes in Cardmaking – A Video Tutorial

Hi everyone! It’s Lindsay here with you today, from Crafting While Caffeinated Blog and YouTube Channel. The Crafter’s Workshop has so many amazing mediums! One of their mediums that I love using in my cardmaking projects is the modeling paste. It comes in so many different colors, add dimension and texture, and is nice and opaque so I can stencil over my backgrounds! Watch the video tutorial to learn more about the Modeling Pastes available from TCW and how I like to use them in my cardmaking!


The Video Tutorial

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Creating the Handmade Cards

Hi, You Handmade Card

My favorite way to use modeling pastes on my cardmaking projects is by stenciling over backgrounds that I’ve made with them. On my first project, I started by creating a very quick ombre watercolor background with my Arteza Brush Markers.

After the watercolor had dried, I used the new Wheat Stalks stencil and smoothed through the Antique Gold Modeling Paste. I love the texture and shine you can achieve with just this one product!

I finished this very simple car with a Hi, You sentiment from the Concord & 9th Feathered Stamp Set and attaching the panel to an A2 top folding card base.

Bright Hugs Handmade Greeting Card

As I said above, I love using modeling paste through stencils over my backgrounds. Because the pastes are so obaque they are perfect to use over my brightest backgrounds for the silhouette stenciling technique. Before I used black acrylic paint, which works great but can seep a bit under the stencil if you’re not careful and it doesn’t have any dimension.

The black modeling paste is so opaque, it will cover even super bright backgrounds. The paste’s thick consistency also means that it holds up really well in the stencil. It provides a bit of dimension and texture and doesn’t seep beneath the stencil lines! I used the black modeling paste to put through the new Explosion stencil from TCW. This is such a fun background, you don’t need much else to finish this handmade card!

To finish this card I used a MFT Hugs die and die cut it from Peel and Stick Toner Sheets. Then, I ran it through my laminator with Pewter foil from Thermoweb. After adding the shiny foiled sentiment, I attached the entire panel onto an A2 top folding card base!

Hello Handmade Card

For my final project, I wanted to share a little more on the Clear Modeling Paste. This paste is more translucent than the other pastes, but it doesn’t dry completely clear. If that’s what you’re looking for, I suggest using a Gel Medium (matte or gloss depending on the finish you want). This paste is more a base. You can create any color of paste you want just by adding acrylic paint, water based ink, etc. And because the base is “clear” it doesn’t change the color at all like a white paste would.

To the clear modeling paste I added Distress inks. I used two colors, Ripe Persimmon and Dried Marigold, and that’s the beauty of having the clear modeling paste. You can create your own custom colors of pastes. I love creating a bit of a lighter shade than my background for a tone on tone look. I put my custom colored paste through the new Circle Jumble stencil from The Crafter’s Workshop.

Normally, when the background on my card is so bright, I like to keep the rest of the card pretty simple. But I added a bit more color this time! After foiling my hello die cut sentiment with black, I mounted the sentiment onto a piece of patterned paper that I made into a banner. I also added a few polymer clay hearts to add a even more interest to this fun and bright handmade hello greeting card!


I hope you all enjoyed a look at all the different modeling pastes that The Crafter’s Workshop offers and how I like to use them on my handmade cards!

If you are interested in any of the TCW products I used today, you can find them all listed and linked down below. Until next time, happy crafting!!

TCW Design Team Member…Lindsay A (Crafting While Caffeinated)


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2 thoughts on “A Closer Look at Modeling Pastes in Cardmaking – A Video Tutorial

  1. I wanted to expand on your tips while using these mediums or even acrylic paint. I keep a small bucket of water next to my art table so that when I have finished with an application I just have to drop stencils and tools into the waiting water. This allows me to keep going with the project and I can clean up whenever convenient as opposed to running to the sink before any medium or paint dries. Makes cleanups a breeze, too. I use the sponges with the plastic-like designs to scrub with as opposed to the scratchy kind as it keeps the plastic from scratching or inadvertently catching a small piece of plastic design and distorting it. I, too, cover my jar mouths, but use a press ‘n seal product with adhering side down, then, run my finger over the top lip of the jar to seal. An added benefit is that when the lid is screwed down, all of the wrap adheres to the top of the jar giving a nice tight seal. I hope this helps someone out there as paints and mediums cost can add up, but these simple tricks will help save replacement costs so, of course, you can buy other stuff lol.

  2. Fabulous tips!!!!! Thank you for sharing them! I love the idea of keeping a bucket of water next to your work station and just dropping in tools and stencils. That would save a lot of time and not break up the creating so much!!

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