Technique – heat embossing

Featuring heat embossing

Snowflake Tree Cloche

Happy Festive Friyay!

Today I’m playing along with the current colour challenge over at the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

When I saw that this week’s colour palette was blue and white I was excited to play along with the challenge – it’s the perfect combo for icy cards!

I decided that I wanted to use one of my wood mounted rubber stamps and had already decided that I would pair the stamp with the Concord & 9th Cloche die set that I bought before Christmas but never got round to using! I have two snowflake tree stamps – one was too large but this one, by Inkadinkadoo, was perfect! I heat embossed it and then blended some distress ink across the background.

I used a number of the Concord & 9th dies to create the cloche scene which I adhered to a blue card base and then added the flourish and flakes from the Memory Box Wintry Snowflake Bundle set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

One wood block stamp, two New Year cards

Hi there!

It’s that short time of year when my cardmaking attention turns to New Year cards. Ordinarily I use a lot of die cuts but today I wanted to use a pretty wood-mounted stamp that I’ve had for AGES plus some newer products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

The stamp du jour is called Falling Stars (3890H) – mine is dated 2008 (I think I may have bought it in 2010) and is still available online at the Penny Black store. I know many people are nervous about stamping with wood-mounted stamps, but they leave a beautiful impression – I will always love all mine! I do a few practice impressions when I’m stamping multiples of the same image, like I did with these cards.

 

 

My first card uses minimal supplies – the stamp, a sentiment from the Smile All Season stamp set (30-516), some versamark ink and glitzy embossing powder. I also used a frame from the Stitched Frames die set (51-709).

 

 

 

It’s a product explosion on my second card! I used the same stamps from my first card, plus a tag die from the Tagged set (51-007) and dies from the Peaceful Pines set (51-705) and Little Ornaments set (51-090) (bow) plus a tiny bit of branch from the On A Limb set (51-749). The beautiful embossing folder is from the most recent colllection and is called  Filigree (65-010).

 

I’m going to enter these into Amy’s December Woodblock Wednesday challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Beware of the Cat!

Hi everyone!

There’s an amazing sketch over at the Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week – lots of layers!

I chose to make another Halloween card using a bargain Simon Says Stamp embossing folder and a fabulous cat stamp by Picket Fence Studios.

I stamped and embossed the cat image on vellum as I didn’t want to hide the ghosts completely. I ended up using a couple of additional layers of vellum behind the stamped image to soften the ghosts a little.

The sentiment is from the same Picket Fence Studios set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 1

Happy Saturday everyone!

It’s that time of year again! LucieG’s Christmas in July! Woohoo! For the past few years, I’ve dedicated July to Christmas cardmaking and reaped the benefits in November/December when life always seems to get super busy! I LOVE having a good supply of cards to send to all my friends rather than stress about making them before the posting deadline. Plus I get a chance to use the festive supplies I didn’t get round to using last year… or bought in the after-Christmas sales this year!

Anyway, for Christmas in July Day 1, I’m playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I started by creating a night sky by blending various purple distress oxide inks. I then inked up a tree from the Peaceful Woodland set (30-922) and heat embossed it with some rainbow glitter embossing powder – the sparkle is amazing in real life! I extended the lines for the ground using some black stickles and finally added a sentiment from the Jolly Snippets set (30-925).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Floral Easter Egg

Hello again everyone!

Next up today is my card for the colour challenge at The Paper Players.

I embossed the floral egg from Simon Says Stamps’ Easter Joy set and coloured it using my Twinkling H2O paints.

I added it to an embossed card base and added a Memory Box sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Heat embossed heart

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown ! When I saw this week’s palette of red, pink and gold, I envisaged a red heart with a gold pattern and knew I wanted to do some heat embossing. That magical technique that took my breath away during my first stamping class! I don’t see much heat embossing nowadays – a lot of crafters seem to be into foiling. It’s times like this that I wish I still had a craft stire near me where I could take a few classes before deciding whether to embark on the world of foiling. Alas my last store closed in late 2019 and so foiling remains off my repertoire until I get a chance to play with it!

An so gold heat embossing was on the agenda for me this evening then! I chose and older Hero Arts background stamp and got busy! Once I embossed the image, I cut it with a Memory Box heart die and coloured it with Lumberjack Plaid distress oxide ink. I lifted some ink using water.

Turning to my card base, I initially played around with a hot pink background but in the end went with a lighter shade of pink which I embossed using a Simon Says Stamp folder.

After adhering the heart, I added a Memory Box stamped sentiment and a few gold sequins.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.