Embossing - Through The Purple Haze Challenge #29

This weeks challenge at Through The Purple Haze is Embossing. 

The sponsor for this challenge is:

http:// www.mymumscraftshop.co.uk

I've actually made two cards this week - one with dry embossing and one using heat embossing.

Dry Embossing Card

I made this card using my own hand-made embossing sheet (you can see how to do this on my last blog post.) I embossed some core-dinations card stock and layered it onto some already embossed Bazille Basics pink card. I added Tilda ribbon and this lovely digi from Polkadoodle Etsy shop - it's so sweet! I coloured this using my Spectrum Noir pens. The sentiment was part of the digi and I just stamped a doily stamp over the top so it wasn't on stark white card.

Heat Embossing Card

I decided to go for 'heat embossing' as I have the tools but don't do it much (mostly because it use to be such a pain to plug in my heat tool before I re-arranged it). My card is quite differet to my normal colour pallette but I decided to use things which I don't usually use and step out of my comfort zone a bit and this is the finished card.

I used backing paper from Kaisercraft Miss Empire Collection in Realm and matted and layered using kraft card (I love that stuff but don't use it much). I then took some orangey peach coloured paper from Craft Creations and stamped on it using Versa Mark and a rose pattern stamp I got free with Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine and then I used a white embossing powder. I also stamped the roses on the same paper (but elsewhere) with Distress Ink (Tattered Rose).

I cut the stamped and embossing pieces into 3 inch squares, rounded off the corners and then added them to kraft card. I stamped a sentiment onto kraft card and heat embossed that too (the sentiment was from a Kanban Sugar Buttons stamp set).

Stamped with distress ink

Stamped and embossed

I finished the card by wrapping twine around the card twice and tying a knot.

I hope you like my cards - I'm usually more into bright cards using pinks, blues and purples but enjoyed trying something different with my heat embossing card and using bits and pieces I hadn't used in a while.

Go over to Through The Purple Haze Challenge Blog to see what the other Design Team members have made and why not have a go yourself

 

http://www.throughthepurplehazechallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ 

I'm entering this card in the below challenges:
http://avenue613.blogspot.co.uk/ - #59
http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.co.uk/  - #200 Use a Digi
http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ - Pile it On #7 Sentiment as the focus 
http://www.scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/ - #12 Anything Goes
http://doodlepantryblog.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/DPDC - #43 Any Digi Goes
http://emergencycrafterschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ - Pink or Red
http://2sisterschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/challenge-173-embossing.html 
http://craftyhandsdevon.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/heatdry-embossed-background8th-challenge.html

http://heather-bittenbythebug2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/cricut-cut-as-stencil-challenge.html?m=1 - used Cricut to make as email and used this to emboss my background