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One of my favorite things to create with is embossing folders. There's so much you can do with them to make a card look unique.
Today I'm using Simon Says Stamps' Christmas Angels embossing folder. My first card is embossed acetate with gold acrylic paint, my second card is embossed vellum over an ink blended panel. I have a YouTube tutorial video here:
Acetate is easy to emboss. The one I used is from an assorted paper box from Your Paper Insider, but I have also used some from We R Memory Keepers which comes in a 12x12 pad, it's very thin and can be run through a diecutting machine with whatever sandwich you would normally use for a piece of paper in an embossing folder. I use a Sizzix Big Shot, so my sandwich is the platform, the folder with acetate and one top plate. The acetate is cut to the size of the embossing folder (not just the design), in this case about 4.5x6.5". This will leave a border around the image which I score and burnish to fit the panel on the top and bottom. It should be longer than the panel, that way I can fold it over to fit the panel after I paint it.
After the acetate is embossed, I flip it over to the debossed side. The areas that are inverted, or have tiny wells are where I place the acrylic paint. I used inexpensive gold acrylic paint from Hobby Lobby. The gold is a brassy gold, a bit antiqued. The bottle I have is a few years old, Anita's Metallic Craft Paint by Rustoleum in Antique Gold.
I use a thin brush, mine is by Altenew and has a fine point to be able to reach into the tiny lines and wells. I apply 2-3 coats letting it fully dry between coats. After it's fully dry, I will adhere it to the base.
The blue card is Distress Spray Stains in Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers on watercolor paper. I also sprayed a bit of Distress Mica Stain in Snow Flurries and Distress Spray Stain in Faded Jeans in a few spots.
Score the top and bottom of the acetate to fit the panel, folding it behind the panel and attaching it with red line tape to the back. Trim the sides of the acetate with a guillotine trimmer or scissors to fit the panel. Attach this to a card front.
For my second card, I embossed a piece of vellum. My vellum is heavyweight. I ink blended 3 shades of Distress Oxide ink onto the panel, Picked Raspberry, Fossilized Amber and Broken China.
On the second panel I ink blended I used Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo, Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry and Lumberjack Plaid. I didn't end up finishing this card yet but showed it with an acetate embossed panel, I have to finish painting.
That's it for today! Thank you for visiting.
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SUPPLIES:
---- https://tidd.ly/486Yky0 [Simon Says Stamp]
Your Paper Insider Watercolor Paper
---- https://tidd.ly/3LUx2SF [Your Paper Insider]
---- https://tidd.ly/46MtGZZ [Scrapbookcom]
---- https://tidd.ly/49wDaus [Simon Says Stamp]
---- https://tidd.ly/3M4T4lW [Simon Says Stamp]
---- https://tidd.ly/48CtjlJ [Simon Says Stamp]
---- https://tidd.ly/3XgRoIx [Simon Says Stamp]
---- https://tidd.ly/4pENnd3 [Simon Says Stamp]
---- https://tinyurl.com/44zd5jzs [Spellbinders]
---- https://tidd.ly/4ioAnWh [Scrapbookcom]
The vellum I used is from Amazon, I don't have a link for it but it's by SuFly, 8.5x11".
I have used We R Memory Keepers thin acetate, it comes 12x12" sheets in a pad.
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