I’ve mentioned previously that I was in Michaels looking for some scissors for a left hander when I saw this beautiful Hero Arts Christmas tree stamp. Because the tree is so gorgeous, I didn’t want to detract from it or have other elements fighting with it. This time I decided to heat emboss it in silver since the previous two uses had it embossed in gold. It looks as if I’ll have to try it without heat embossing too!

For my base, I used rich razzleberry – in fact this is a one layer card. After rubbing the embossing buddy over the card, I stamped the tree in versamark and sprinkled on the silver embossing powder. As an aside – whilst in Michaels, I also found an embossing tray which catches all the embossing powder and allows you to funnel the powder back into the pot. I had thought about storing the powders in plastic containers with a spoon for ease of sprinkling, but with a dozen or so powders, I didn’t want to use up the extra space. I take up enough (okay, pretty much all) of the kitchen table at the moment as it is! Stampin’ Up! used to sell one but it appears to have been discontinued. I also got a few small paint brushes which are useful for flicking off any stray dots of powder before heating and for helping the last remnants of the powder from the tray into the pot.

Back to today’s card! After heat embossing the tree, I rubbed the embossing buddy on the bottom part of the card and stamped the sentiment from Stampin’ Up!’s Good Greeting set in versamark. One more sprinkle with the embossing powder and another round with the heat tool and the card is done. I could have stamped both parts in the versamark and then done just one round with the embossing powder and heat tool but I prefer to do one thing at a time when embossing.

I finished the card off by dry embossing the envelope flap with Stampin’ Up!’s northern flurry embossing folder.  The colour of the rich razzleberry is truer to life here – I need to improve my photography to get the colours better. I may even have to read the manual!