Heat embossing - 3 different designs

Hello and Welcome to my blog. I thought I would share with you one of the very first card that I made. I started cardmaking about a year ago after stumbling onto Jennifer McGuire's videos when I was searching the internet on stamping. She is so incredible and she made crafting seems so easy. You should totally check out her blog.

All the following cards used the same basic technique.  As this was actually my first time heat embossing and I did a very poor job in my first few attempts,  I had to improvised by trimming down and saved what I could.

Christmas wreath

Merry Christmas! Wishing you a happy holiday.

Today I am sharing a pop-up card. I love interactive card and this is my first attempt at pop-up card and I hope you liked it.

Monochromatic background stamping

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For today's cards, I used the same technique by stamping small images with inks that complement the card base.                

Missing You This Holiday Season

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I blacked heat embossed on watercolour paper and watercoloured this cute girl from MFT Pure Innocence Warm Winter (discontinued set). I fussied-cut the image and brushed the side of the image with black marker.

I blended various shades and combinations of Distress ink –Tumbled Glass, Shaded Lilac and Spun Sugar on white card stock. MFTSnow Drift die-cut and the coloured girl image were foam mounted on a side-folding card base.

Bauble shaker card

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Today, I am sharing this Christmas bauble shaker card. I used 2 different techniques to raise the card front for the shaker and will share my experience with them.

I did not have any bauble die so I made my own bauble from some circle die and specialty papers.

Hope Santa brings you lots of goodies

Hello. Hope you are having a good day.

For today’s card, I stamped Mama Elephant Toy Shop image on watercolor paper, black heat embossed (with VersaMark and Wow Primary EbonySuper Fine embossing powder) and colored the image with watercolor. 

Clean and simple Christmas card

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This is my last card for the Caring Hearts Card Drive. As I was short of time and really wanted to make more cards to support the cause, I made some clean and simple one-layer card.