Hello, I have a new card design to share with you. This week
the Papermill Design Team are looking at Embossing Techniques and I thought I
would show how simply adding ink can make a difference to your
embossing.
For this design I took a ‘Wood Grain’ embossing folder, opened it up
and added ink to one side with my inkpad. I used one of my small
dewdrop inkpads in Rich Cocoa colour and simply dabbed and swiped it
over one inner side of the plastic embossing folder adding ink to the
raised edges. (If you prefer you could use a larger inkpad and brayer
to apply the ink). I placed a piece of Papermilldirect Buff coloured
card inside the folder and ran it through my Big Shot machine, opened
the folder and the card has been embossed and inked to resemble wood
grain. (Just clean any excess ink off the folder with a baby wipe). I
trimmed the wood grain panel down to approx. 3 ¾ “wide by 5” high and
used double sided tape to mat onto PMD Maroon card to give a small
border.
To create the card base I simply scored and folded an A4 sheet of PMD
White Hammered card in half and then trimmed down to give me a 4 ½ “
wide by 5 ¾” high card base ( I like the fold across the top for this
design but you may prefer it with fold to the left). The wood grain
panel was attached centrally with double sided tape.
I took a small length of Jute Hessian trim from my stash and cut it
to just overlap the card edges, fraying the ends, double sided tape
secures the trim along the bottom of the wood grain panel.
Using PMD Pale Turquoise card and the Marianne Design Dove die set, I
cut one bird body and 2 wing pieces. You could leave the pieces with
the cut outs as they are or do as I have done and added PMD Baby Pink
card to the back so it shows a contrast colour in the cut-outs. Glue
wings to dove body arranging as you wish and then use 3D foam pads to
adhere the Dove to the wood grain panel towards the top LH side, allow
the wings and tail to overlap the card slightly, this adds extra
interest drawing your eyes ‘off the page’ adding to the idea of the bird
flying.
The sentiment is provided by the ‘Me & You’ sticker from the
Forest Friends embellishments, I placed this below the dove and slightly
to the right. To finish a self-adhesive blue gem was added to the eye
of the dove and pearls were added to decorate the tail and wings. 3
self-adhesive pearls were also added to the Jute Trim at RH side.
I think the inking of the embossing folder worked really well and
along with the embossed surface, raised embellishments and Jute trim, it
made for quite a tactile card. Why not experiment with your own
embossing folders and don’t forget to share your makes over on the
papermilldirect facebook page, we’d love to see them.
Materials Used:
Wood Grain - Textures Embossing Folder – Crafter’s Companion
Rich Cocoa – Dewdrop Inkpad – Memento
Decorative Dove LR0149 - Creatables Die – Marianne Design
Forest Friends Embellishment Stickers – Grace Taylor
Adhesive gem and pearls, Jute trim
Adhesives: Double Sided Tape, 3D Foam Pads,cosmic shimmer glue
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