As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I heat embossed Merry Medley with the copper embossing powder (I’m having a bit of an embossing week!) and then cut up the image into separate sentiments. As you can see, I’m continuing using up that pile of sentiments. It’s a lot more sparkly and pretty in person.

The gorgeous swoosh from Star of Light was still out on my desk – apparently I haven’t quite adopted Pootles’ mantra of “don’t put it down, put it away”! – and ever since the earlier card, I wanted to do the swooshes again, this time on night of navy. So I swiped my card with the embossing buddy and stamped the swoosh a couple of times, ensuring that they began in about the same place, and sprinkled silver embossing powder. After heating so that they shone, I used the embossing buddy again and stamped a couple more times and added the copper embossing powder. I’ve seen mixed metals around lately and thought it would be fun to try on a card and I really like how it looks. Of course after I’d added the two copper swooshes, I could see that I was missing a tiny bit of silver at the bottom to balance the card, so I went for a third silver embossed swoosh.

I wanted the sentiment as part of the card, rather than trying to really stand out, so for once, I didn’t pop it up. A few enamel shapes in metallic silver and I was done.

Now that I have the design, this would be an easy card to mass produce – with just two rounds of heat embossing rather than three! Just be sure to hold your cardstock unfolded or your card can warp slightly. I originally thought that folded would be better, it’s really not. If it’s single, you can turn it over and straighten out your card by heating the other side.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

I’ve been meaning to play with the Star of Light stamp set, but until today I somehow didn’t get around to it. Yesterday I stamped the Merry Medley large background image onto a large piece of night of navy using the copper embossing powder – presumably inspired by Friday’s card which featured the gorgeous specialty piece of embossed paper from the Petals & Paisleys DSP. I wondered about making an extra large card to use all of it, and then this morning realised what I wanted to do. I carefully cut up my stamped and embossed image on the trimmer into individual sentiments. Now I have a pile of ready stamped and embossed sentiments to play with. Perfect!

This felt like the perfect time to use the Star of Light set, having the stars and swooshes just bursting out from the sentiment. I stamped in night of navy and then lamented the lack of any copper embellishments when I realised that I can get the same effect with more embossing. Hence the added copper stars, also from Star of Light, to pull the card together.

I used a variety of adhesives on this one – fuse on the whisper white card since it had warped a little, snail to attach the night of navy to the copper foil since tombow slides too much and then dimensionals to pop up the sentiment. I do like having a variety of adhesives, it makes life so much easier.

I happened to put the last two days cards next to each other and noticed that they are identical in layout. Did you notice? I think it’s amazing how changes in colour and patterns make them look so different!

This upcoming Saturday is National Card Making Day; I’m planning a Christmas Card buffet on Sunday afternoon (the 2nd October). A buffet is where there are a number of cards and you choose which ones you want to make and how many of them. If you’re local and are interested, let me know.

See you tomorrow,

Liz