Colored Embossing Birthday

Before the Blendabilities markers were discontinued I created this card for my embossing class.  We embossed with white embossing powder and then colored the top of the image with Blendablities.  I wasn't sure it would look good up close, but really it's easy and quite dramatic looking.  

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Embossed Get Well

How's this for a cheery get well card?  This isn't double embossing like I have been posting a lot of lately, but it starts the same way.  Attach chipboard with an oval cut out to the back of an embossing folder.  The section with chipboard on the back will emboss, but the center oval will remain smooth.  Then you can stamp away!
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Embossed Wedding Card

At our Spring into Stamping meeting last month, Tami White demonstrated embossing folders.  Some people cut them to emboss only part of the card, but this is so much better for people like me.  I had ordered this embossing folder a long time ago when I first learned you could cut the folder and create sections of embossing, but I just couldn't bring myself to cut into it and "destroy" it.  So it sat in my drawer until I saw this!  Emboss a piece of cardstock and use it at your pattern.  Trim away the parts you don't want embossed and then cut a piece of chipboard to match.  Put that chipboard (I taped my down so it wouldn't move) on the outside of your folder.  Run it through your Big Shot on platform 2 with only 1 cutting pad.  I added some rhinestones in the middle of the designs for just a little bling. 

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One More Medallion Card

I am seeing my sister today, so here is my last medallion card for awhile.  I think we used it three months in a row in stamp club, but it is such a great stamp with so many possibilities that I couldn't help myself.  I know Sara will let me borrow it again anytime, but it's only fair to give her back her stamp.  Click here and here to see the other techniques we did with this stamp.  

This card was so easy to make and turns out great every time.  Emboss the medallion with clear embossing powder.  Then sponge colors of ink over it.  I started with Night of Navy, then used Pacific Point and moved to Bashful Blue last.  By using the lightest color last, I could fill in any areas missing color and even things out.  If you stamp the medallion on a scratch piece of cardstock and cut out the center, you have a template to keep the outside of the image neat.  (Some of my careful stampers went without the template.)  I think this technique was first demonstrated at a Stampin' Up! event (that I didn't attend) a couple of years ago.  But that is one of the many great things about stampers, everyone is so eager to share new ideas, and I am sure someone demonstrated this at a meeting I attended. 

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Sunny Garden Medallion Emboss Resist

Here's another stamp club projects from last week.  I told the ladies to not be surprised if they see this Medallion stamp one more time.  My sister has been nice enough to loan it to me so I am using the heck out of it while I have it.  I initially borrowed it to do this technique I saw at convention.  But now, there are lots of other options for us, including this emboss resist with Designer Series Paper.  We stamped the Medallion with VersaMark directly on a piece of Sunny Garden Designer Series Paper.  Sprinkle with Clear Embossing Powder and heat emboss.  We then used a brayer to roll over the image with Poppy Parade.  Gently wipe a tissue over the image to remove the ink from the embossed area. 
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Bride and Groom Wedding Card

When I was pulling out some Shimmery White cardstock for a stamp club project this week, I came across the template I used for a wedding card last spring. I think it could be one of my all time favorites. I just cut the triangles free-hand, and the dress is Shimmery White cardstock with clear embossing. I used a retired set To Have and To Hold for the embossed images on the gown. On the inside, I used another piece of Shimmery White with silver and black ink.

Supplies:  Shimmery White, Basic Black cardstock, To Have and To Hold stamp set, clear embossing powder, heat tool, Basic Black, Silver ink, Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon

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Embossed Flower Frame

This card features an emboss resist technique. I used the Elegant Bouquet Textured Impressions Embossing Folder which required me to rotate and run it though my Big Shot twice. If you have an embossing folder that is a full image, it is only necessary to run it through once. The Finial Press or the Perfect Polka Dots from the Occasions Mini would work great for this.

I cut an oval in a piece of chipboard, used Dotto to stick it to the bottom (do not put it inside the folder) of the embossing folder and then ran it through my Big Shot like I normally do. The hole in the cardboard creates a flat area that the impressions folder can't emboss.

I colored directly onto the flower stamp from Close as a Memory to put the flowers in the center creating a "frame" around them. This card uses Valentine colors, but it could easily go for another occasion.

Supplies:  Close as a Memory stamp set, Real Red, Pretty in Pink cardstock, Real Red, Garden Green ink, Elegant Bouquet Embossing Folder, Big Shot, chipboard, Pretty in Pink Taffeta ribbon, Dotto

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