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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Happy St. Patrick's Day

This St. Patrick's Day card features a technique that is new to me.  It's a type of emboss resist that we did using an embossing folder.  Emboss a piece of waxed paper in the embossing folder with your Big Shot.  Then sandwich the piece of embossed waxed paper between two pieces of glossy cardstock (glossy side in) and iron between parchment paper.   Don't forget the parchment paper... it is used to protect your iron.  I ironed with a dry iron on a cotton setting for about 10 seconds.  When you are done, the wax will be left on your glossy cardstock and you can then brayer over it with your color and you've got an awesome background piece to work with.  Because you are sandwiching the waxed paper between two pieces of cardstock, you actually have two very different looking pieces to work with.  And on this card, I only used half of one sheet which yields 4 cards.  The stamps are from the Sale-a-bration set So Happy For You. 

 

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