Embossing Folder on a Valentine and a Christmas Card

Can You Handle the Pressure challenge wants to see hearts used with an embossing folder and the Once Upon a Time challenge wants something based on the book "My Heart".  To go with the book, my card has big hearts and little hearts, some that are open, some that are closed (filled in).

I used the hearts border embossing folder across the middle of my focal panel and stamped and heat embossed the sentiment at the bottom. I die cut the cluster of hearts out of silver glitter cs and glued the outline on top and randomly added some of the inside hearts back into their spots, and added two of the inside hearts at random places at the top of the focal panel. Popped the panel up on fun foam for more dimension.

My second card is for Jingle Belles "use an embossing folder".

I sprinkled blue Brushos on coated cs and spritzed with water. When dry, I ran it through a snowflakes embossing folder and then sanded the colour off the tops of the snowflakes. It gave me a great variegated effect.

I die cut the image and sentiment twice - once out of dark silver glitter cs and once out of white cs - and glued them together for more dimension. Added them to the background and bordered it with more of the glitter cs.

Challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure? "Hearts"

Once Upon a Time "My Heart" 

Jingle Belles "Embossing Folders"
 

Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Impression Obsession sentiment
Ink - ColorBox Silver
Paper - white cs, silver glitter cs
Size - A2
Accessories - silver embossing powder, SU hearts embossing folder, SSS cluster of hearts die, fun foam

Supplies for card 2:
Paper - white cs, dark silver glitter cs, coated cs
Size - A2
Accessories - blue Brushos, TH merry die, unknown reindeer / tree die, Sizzix snowflakes embossing folder

Dry Embossed Pine Branch

I've got a Christmas card today for a couple of challenges.  Just Us Girls wants to see "Embossing Folders" and the ABC Christmas Challenge has "E for Embossing".

I really like Jennifer McGuire's technique with embossing folders.  See this video for details.

I embossed bright green foil cs with the TH pine branch embossing folder, then sanded the raised part, exposing the white cs underneath the green foil layer.

I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment on vellum and wrapped the strip around the foil panel, then mounted on a white card base. I added a little silver bow to the top of the branch.

Just Us Girls

ABC Christmas Challenge  "E for Embossing"

Supplies:
Stamps - SU sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white cs, vellum, green foil cs
Size - A2
Accessories - TH embossing folder, clear embossing powder, silver ribbon

A Sanded Foil Slimline

When the slimline cards first became popular, I didn't think I'd jump on that particular bandwagon but more and more I'm enjoying making them. 

For this one, I dry embossed a piece of gold foil cs with a 3D embossing folder and then sanded off some of the raised parts.  I bordered it with dark red and then cut a matching sentiment.

It was really hard to photograph.  The gold is not quite that yellow so here are a couple of other photos using different light (the true colour is somewhere in between!).

It's a really easy technique, a great way to use foil cs and to get more use out of our embossing folders.

I'm linking up with these challenges:

Just Us Girls "Mini Slimline Cards"

Krafty Chicks "Christmas Week Challenge"

Supplies:
Paper - gold foil cs, red and cream cs
Size - 6.25x3.25"
Accessories - TH 3D embossing folder, Penny Black sentiment die

Tic Tac Toe Poinsettia

I really enjoy Tic Tac Toe challenges so am happy to be posting a card for The Paper Players.  I chose the row that reads "foil / embossing / embellishments".

I ran a piece of red foil cs through my Cuttlebug using the TH 3D poinsettia embossing folder.  I then sanded off some of the raised area to bring out the design.  I cut a thin diagonal strip out of the panel, put the two sections on fun foam, stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in the recessed section between the two sections of the panel, and added lots of tiny gemstone embellishments to the centres of the poinsettias.

The Paper Players "Tic Tac Toe"

Supplies:
Stamps - unknown sentiment
Ink - Versafine Clair Nocturne
Paper - white cs, red foil cs
Size - A2
Accessories - TH 3D poinsettia embossing folder, small clear gemstones, clear embossing powder, fun foam

Foil and Snowflakes

Recently a few of us played with foil over Zoom.  One of the techniques we tried was dry embossing foil cs and then sanding off some of the raised layer to reveal the core colour of the foil cs.  See this video by Jennifer Maguire.

I enjoyed the technique so much that I used it to create a card for a couple of October challenges that call for snowflakes.  Here's my card:

I embossed a piece of blue foil cs with a snowflake swirl embossing folder and then sanded off the raised area.  It revealed a silver colour under the blue so I added it to a silver shimmer card base and die cut a couple of snowflakes and a Tim Holtz sentiment circle out of the same silver shimmer cs.

For these challenges:

Christmas Cards All Year Round "Something that Starts with S or T"

Christmas 24 Challenge "Simply Snowflakes" 

Supplies:
Paper - blue matte foil and silver shimmer cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Cuttlebug embossing folder, TH snow circle die, Impression Obsession snowflake dies