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Thursday 14 March 2013

Mothers Day Crafting - The Card

So, it was Mother's Day in the UK last Sunday - 10th March, and as usual I had to think up some new ideas of things to make my mother.

First came the card. I wanted to experiment with double embossing, based on an article that I'd seen in the latest issue of Craft Stamper magazine.

This was the first attempt. I inked the raised edge of the embossing folder with versamark ink before running it through the machine. I then sprinkled clear embossing powder on and melted it to create a resist surface.

I then took 3 co-ordinating Tim Holtz distress stains in peacock feathers, squeezed lemonade and shaded lilac, and dabbed some of the ink to a resist mat surface, being careful not to mix the inks together. I then swiped the card through the ink so it stuck to the parts that weren't covered with the clear powder.

I wasn't overly pleased with the result, so I decided I would cut out the good butterflies and use them as individual embellishments on the card.


I then had another idea to try the double embossing the other way round! This time, I swiped the distress stain straight from the bottle onto the card, in rainbow stripes.

Then I put it in the embossing folder and ran it through the machine. Then I took the versamark ink and gently swiped it over the raised parts and covered these with white embossing powder. After shaking off the excess, I touched up and parts that had been missed with a versamark pen. This left a piece of card which looked like this:

I trimmed off the edges and used this piece as a backing to the card. I embellished the rest of the card with matching flowers, buttons and the butterfly I had cut out and here is the perfect spring time mothers day card:


Read my other post to find out what I made my mum as her present....

Claire

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