Hello! Another wonderful Altenew class is the inspiration for today's cards. Impressive Heat Embossing is another must take class. After finishing the lessons, I pulled out ALL of the embossing powders in my stash. And of course, there were quite a few. But what fun it was to play with them all. The card below is the first of my Christmas cards for this year. I embossed the Amaryllis outline in Gold. The second layer was stamped using a dark red ink. The third layer was embossed using an Iridescent Embossing Powder and the fourth layer was embossed using Gold Embossing Powder. I opted to not use the stamen for this flower. The greenery die cuts were embossed using a Green and Gold Embossing Powder. I die cut all the pieces along with a Gold foil frame. For added interest, I die cut the Garden Trellis Cover Die out of white cardstock and used this as my background. All pieces were adhered to an A2 card front.
Below is a close up spotlighting all that glitter and sparkle!
The card below uses several colors of embossing powders-Gold, Silver, Copper, Clear, and Holographic. I heat embossed each color separately. It wasn't hard, just a slow process. I think it was worth the effort.
I used several stamp sets as well. The sentiment is Copper embossed on Vellum and from the Ornamental Bliss set. The leaves are from the Darling Rose set and the small branches and dots are from the Watercolor Blooms set. I enjoy mixing stamp sets to get more out of them.
Here is a close up of all the different colors on this card. I added a few matching gems, adhered the piece to a copper foil cardstock and then to an A2 cardfront.
This technique turned out to be a 2 for 1 card. Using my stamp positioner was a great help. Using 2 pieces of cardstock (one white and the other colored) cut to the same size, I stamped the white cardstock in an ink that matched my colored cardstock. I then stamped in VersaMark Ink and heat embossed in Clear Embossing Ink. I then stamped my colored cardstock in VersaMark Ink and heat embossed using Silver Pearl Embossing Powder. I die cut the center out of the colored cardstock and die cut a sentiment to match. A few clear gems were added to the front as well.
The close up shows how the stamping is continuous on the colored cardstock. I also added some liquid glitter into the flower centers. I really like how this card and the next one turned out.
This card uses the leftover frame from my previous card and is a very simple card. I stamped my flower in matching ink and Clear Embossing Powder as before. The flower images are from the Starry Flowers set and the sentiment is from the Always There set.
I added color to the flower centers and blooms. The tiny butterflies were in my stash and just matched my flower centers. I hope you enjoyed today's post.
Happy Stamping!
