One Embossing Folder–Three Designs

During one of the pre-Black Friday sales, I picked up a new embossing folder from Spellbinders called Ski Lodge. I think it has lots of possibilities for winter cards, but I have three today that are all holiday cards. I used it to create three different colored backgrounds which I used below, and I have a few extras left for more cards.

The embossing folder is large enough to accommodate a 5×7 piece of cardstock but I almost always make an A2 size card or a square one so I precut the cardstock before running them through in the embossing folder. The detail on this is just lovely. I added the sled and wreath from Honey Bee’s Sleigh Bells Ring set which I purchased a year ago, and had not used.  

The sentiment is from Reverse Confetti’s Christmas Card Greetings–also new. I purchased it when they closed their business earlier this fall. 

For this card, and the next, I cut strips from the embossed cardstock to create the card designs. Matching up the patterns was easy to do. 

The sentiment was hot foiled with Pinkfresh Studio’s Perfect Sentiments: Holiday, and I added a few of their Champagne Glitter Drops. 

Lastly, a similar card but with a different pattern:

Here I cut my favorite part of the Ski Lodge pattern in red and added two narrow strips of the green paper. This sentiment is also from the same Pinkfresh Studio hot foil set.

Some days I’m successful at photographing the wonderful shine of hot foil. This time it was less successful, but here’s a sense of it.

I recently came across two new (to me) card challenges. I love the name of the first one: Let’s Squash It! It’s a card challenge focused on embossing folders so these cards are perfect for their current challenge: Make a Christmas Card.  The second new challenge is Sunday Stamps, and their current challenge is a color challenge. There are five colors, and you must use three of them. I’m sending the last card to Sunday Stamps where I used the red, green, and white.

I’m linking the second card to the current TicTacToe Challenge where I chose the top row across: December Holiday, Use a Die (die cut sentiment,) Embellishment, and of course I’m sending the first to NBUS because this was the embossing folder’s first runs through the die machine as well as the sled’s debut.