Friday 19 August 2011

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge #16 - Embossing

Hello there everybody!

I hope everyone's enjoying their Friday?!  It's nearly the weekend - woo! 
Friday means a new challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays and this week it's embossing;


I love embossing!  I think I use it on pretty much every card I make in one way or another!  After getting all excited I then couldn't think what to make at all - typical!  After sitting for a little while and having a flick through my calendar to see what events were coming up, I remembered that one of my best friends has just set her wedding date!  How exciting!  Whether she'll want me to do/help with wedding stationery, I have no idea, but I thought I'd play around with some ideas for invitations  :)


I used both types of embossing on this card - dry and heat embossing.  The challenge is to emboss - I embossed!  I stamped the image in white VersaColor ink and then embossed with white embossing powder.  I then used my blending tool to blend Broken China Distress Ink over the image in and emboss resist - I always love how that turns out, don't know if you've noticed?!!  :)
The bottom piece I embossed with Cuttlebug's Swiss Dots embossing folder.  Another one of my little addictions is foam adhesive - dimension's important in CAS design I think  :)

Anyway, after making this one I was looking at my other Distress Inks and wondering what this would look like in different colours - here's what happened next....

Victorian Velvet...

Wild Honey...

Crushed Olive...




So yeh, I got a little carried away!  I think they make a sweet little set though!  :)

Thanks for dropping by and I hope to see ya again soon :)








Supplies:
Card:      White 220gsm
Stamps:  Snag 'em Stamps - To Love & Cherish; Studio G Clear Stamps - VC0012 Series 32
Ink:         Distress Inks - Broken China, Victorian Velvet, Wild Honey, Crushed Olive; VersaColor -
                      White, Cyan; ColorBox Cat's Eyes - Marigold
Others:   Rhinestones; Cuttlebug ef - Swiss Dots

19 comments:

  1. These are beautiful, I think they honey is my fav, or maybe the purple, I can't decide.
    Kelly xx

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  2. Love the effects you have achieved on this gorgeous set of cards. The stamp is eye-catching, have never seen it before. I am definitely going to give this a go.

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  3. These are just my style-love them!

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  4. what a gorgeous set of cards!!

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  5. What an incredibly gorgeous set of CAS cards! LOVE!

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  6. Oh, these turned out so neat! I especially love the Wild Honey one; the coloring on it is positively glowing!

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  7. A beautiful set of cards - the dotty background and the resist embossing look just lovely! Here's mine!

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  8. Beauty beauty beauty! I also LOVE LOVE putting Distress Inks over embossing. It's one of my fave techniques. The cards are just lovely. Cindy ScrappyV

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  9. What a gorgeous set of cards Sian:) I love the torn inked edges too.
    Jenny x

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  10. These are fabulous! I love them!!! And I think you're totally right--you need to have dimension in CAS cards!!!

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  11. Love this set! Its totally gorgeous and you really nailed the embossing!! So glad you played with us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  12. These cards are beautiful! I love all the different colors! Amazing job!

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  13. Wow, how awesome are these! Congrats on your VIP C;club win at CAS-ual Fridays! Well-deserved!

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  14. Congrats on your VIP Club win Sian. Your card set is really lovely...I love the different colours you have used!

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  15. Congrats Sian, a well deserved VIP!
    Kelly xx

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  16. Congratulations on being selected this week! You know I love these!! :)

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  17. Well done Sian on your win too, these are gorgeous and I hope your friend likes them. x

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  18. Wow these are just soooo pretty, well done I love them :O) Viv xx

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  19. I just realized I never congratulated you on VIP at CAS-ual Fridays. So....Congrats!

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