2010 April 01 » Rainy Day Creations

Still Playing With Dry Embossing

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The following post is one that I tried to post last Friday. However, because of the Splitcoaststampers server migration last week, there were some blog issues and this post did not show up here on my blog. I apologize to anyone who is receiving this post for the second time through their email subscription to my blog. Hopefully the problems are fixed and all will work fine this time. 🙂

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I’m still having fun playing with Essentials by Ellen: Craft-a-Board and dry embossing die cut images onto cardstock. On this card, I have used the Cuttlebug’s set of 4 die cuts called “Leaves”.

The first step was to die cut the leaves from the Craft-a-Board. Next the leaves are placed on the cardstock and run through the Cuttlebug.

Then a (reverse) mask is cut and placed over one of the embossed leaves.

Taking my “Abstract Backgrounder” I then stamped the leaf in two or three different colors. Each leaf was stamped in this manner and then lightly sponged before removing the mask.

Here is a closeup of the 3 leaves on today’s card.

The leaves need to be embossed all at the same time. So with the 3 leaves above, I had 3 separate die cut leaves.

Continuing to play, I die cut several of the oak leaves and some of the maple leaves from the Cuttlebug “Leaves” set. I placed them all onto the cardstock and embossed it. Lastly I lightly sponged over the embossing. Here is the result!