I took supplies to the dentist’s office yesterday and we had an evening party making Christmas cards. Here’s one of the easy ones that we made – an embossing folder really adds an amazing detail to a card and the new Cable Knit Dynamic TIEF (Textured impressions embossing folder) really goes one step further. It gives a really deep impression – more so if you spritz the card lightly with water first. I also used it on the envelope flap which looks beautiful.

So this uses a piece of cherry cobbler which we ran through the big shot in the embossing folder and then added this to a cherry cobbler card base. I then showed the girls heat embossing in metallics – gold here – and they loved it. There was extra heat embossing for the insides of cards and the back of envelopes. It really is a fabulous technique. There would be questions – “how long do I heat it” and I’d respond that they’d know when they were done. Then there’d be the squeals of delight as the powder melted and the beautiful shiny metal showed up. It was really a fun evening.

After using the Oh, What Fun set for the sentiment, we cut out the oval using the Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies and that produced more oohs and aahs! We glued that to a piece of gold foil and then popped it up with dimensionals. Popping things up was another popular thing to do on a card.

It really was a great evening – if you’d like to do something similar and you’re somewhat near to Randolph, NJ, get in touch and we can organise something for you.

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See you tomorrow,

Liz