Card Making - Embossing a Red & Black Card

I have bought a brand new embossing folder that is quite a bit thicker than the ones I normally use in my machine. In today's blog, I note how to make adjustments for this, while I make a very simple, yet elegant black and red card. I show you how to do this in the step by step instructions in today's blog. There is also a short video with the steps at the end of the blog.

I start on a sheet of red paper.

I place this inside my embossing folder. After experimenting, I found that I needed to use a cutting plate and only a thin metal plate in the Go Cut & Emboss machine, or the sandwich would be too thick for the machine.

The embossed paper.

I cropped the paper to the required size.

I then cropped a black sheet of paper to use as matting behind the red paper.

I used double-sided tape to attach the layers to the card and to each other.

I found a white card and envelope in my stash.

I used a black Artline marker to draw a frame around the edge of the red paper.

I then found Penolope Dee stamps to stamp a sentiment on the card.

I used Midnight Black VersaMagic ink to stamp the sentiment with.

I used Great Impressions Clear Embossing Powder to sprinkle on top of the wet ink.

I shook the excess powder off the card.

I used a heatgun to melt the powder to a shiny finish.

I stuck the image down off-centre on the card.

I used Tombow glue to glue rhinestones onto the side of the card,

The completed card.

You can watch a compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/fYUW1vPx9DU

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