Card Making: Embossing & Die Cutting 4 Someone Special

I am still fooling around with my die cutting and embossing machines that need to be cranked by hand, and I am having a ball with them. In today's blog, I use autumn colours to create a card for someone special. Even though I start on a very intense blue, this colour disappears behind the overwhelming autumn colours late on in the process. I once again use some inking to enhance the elements. Let me show you how to do somehing similar yourself with this blog.

I use this leave design embossing folder by Kaizer Ctafts to emboss a piece of blue cardboard.

I crop the embossed sheet to size.

I use Ranger Archival Ink to ink the raised embossed images.

I fold a yellow A4 sheet of cardboard in half to form a card.

I use a darker yellow cardboard to cut a frame for my embossed sheet.

I ink the frame with Tim Holtz's Distress Ink.

I cut some embellishments with my Sizzix, using X-Cut Dinky Dies.

I cut more embellishments from the darker yellow cardboard as well.

I use a sponge dauber to ink the flowers with Archival Ink by Ranger.

I use a finer dauber to ink the stems and leaves.

I use the stamp pad itself to ink the larger leaves.

I then use double-sided tape to secure the pieces together and to the card.

I use 3D double-sided squares to secure the smaller embellishments to the card, so that they appear raised and dimensional.

My card now looks like this.

I use photo corner stickers on the corners of the frame.

I then use Tombow Glue to glue some wooden lady bugs to the side of the card.

I have some printed die cut sentiments to use on the card.

The completed card.

You can watch a compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/Ej95x5lq4XU

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