I’ll bet I’m not alone when I say that watching my friend heat emboss a sentiment on a card over 25 years ago was the impetus to hop in the car and go to the local stamp store to buy some supplies. I still have a couple of the wooden stamps I bought that day, and just replaced my heat gun in May when a friend gave me an Amazon gift card for my birthday. It’s been a favorite technique ever since so The Flower Challenge had me looking through the cards I hadn’t posted. This card which has already been received by my friend (so can now be shared) has both heat embossing in gold, and dry embossing along the bottom portion of the card.
The beautiful magnolias are from Altenew’s “Magnolias for You” set. I embossed them in gold on Bristol and watercolored them with the Altenew 36 pan watercolor set.
I had to fussy cut the flowers and leaves since I don’t own the dies, and then arranged them at the top of the white panel. The sentiment, also gold embossed, is from The Greetery’s “Sentiment Suite: Birthday” set which gets a lot of use. I decided the card was just too CAS (is that possible?), so added three lines of dry embossing with my stylus on the bottom portion. That was added that to a top folded card in Lovely Lady (PTI.)
I’m in the midst of trying to keep up with two online classes, so crafting time has been at a premium. Today’s personal challenge is to get two masculine birthday cards created.
Pink – so therefore I declare it to be the most beautiful (col). I am most envious of your embossing skills.
WOW!! this is one of the most beautiful cards I’ve seen using this pretty Altenew set, I love how you matched the color of your card stock with the color on these lovely flowers.
Thank you for sharing with us at THE FLOWER CHALLENGE.
Stay healthy and safe.
Hugs,
Maria/DT
This is so perfectly designed. I love how you colored the magnolias and then added the embossed lines as they finish the card well. Yesterday was a sad day, especially watching so many rioters calmly walking away, laughing, bragging about their exploits. I sat up to watch the vote be completed which helped. Take care
beautiful card Karen, love the CAS design and the embossing togetherr with these amazing flowers. Thank you so much for joining us at The Flower Challenge and we hope to see you there again soon. Aileen DesignTeam
Gorgeous card here Karen! I love the pretty Magnolia’s, the soft pink colouring and the CAS look to the card too. Thanks for sharing with us over at ‘The Flower Challenge’ 😉 Viv DT xx
Love the elegance and delicate colours of your card. Heat embossing never gets boring to watch does it? Thanks for joining us this month at The Flower Challenge, hope to see you next month too. Cara DT x
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