Last week I shared a card which had my first brad. Here’s one that I made on the same day with my first sequin! I got the idea for this one from Eimear Carvill, my sister’s upline. It uses the Stampin’ Up! Bright and Beautiful stamp set and a technique called emboss resist.

I rubbed some whisper white cardstock with the embossing buddy and then embossed it in white embossing powder. I got a sponge and my night of navy ink and, after dabbing some of the excess onto scrap paper, lightly sponged the ink onto the centre of the star. The water based inks will not colour the embossed part, hence emboss resist. Be cautious with this – you can always add more ink, you can’t remove it! As the ink was being used up, I sponged towards the points of the star so that I had a paler blue towards the points. I added more ink until I was happy with the result. Next I cut the image out with the matching star framelit and also cut the same size out of the silver glimmer paper which I then cut down the middle. Next I used the embossing buddy on my night of navy card stock and embossed the greeting, also from the Bright and Beautiful stamp set, in silver. I do appear to be hooked on embossing in metallics for Christmas cards; I’ll have to challenge myself to make one without any.

After this, it was a simple matter of construction. I pulled the silver glimmer star apart and placed the embossed star on top. I did have to fuss with it a bit and now that I look at it again, it’s not perfect. I’ll just have to make it again! I put a dab of the tombow glue on the back of a sequin and, using tweezers, positioned it in the centre of the star. You don’t recognise the sequins? They are the Frosted Sequins from the holiday catalogue.