Embossed card

By Spotlight

Hone your embossing skills when you try these four fun card techniques.

Final Result

Materials

• 11.5cm x 11.5cm pale blue textured cardstock (white core)
• 12” x 12” pink textured cardstock (white core)
• 15cm x 15cm co-ordinating patterned paper
• 5cm x 15cm cardstock
• 3cm x 3cm felt
• metal adhesive flashing tape (from hardware store)
• chipboard letters to spell ‘thanks’
• large brad
• Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Inks in Cranberry, Terra Cotta and Butterscotch
• Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink Metallic Mixatives - Gold
• Ranger Archival Ink pad - any colour
• embossing stylus
• 1cm circle punch
• brayer (optional)
• sandpaper
• Dymo labeller
• paper trimmer
• adhesives
• flower punch

Step 1

Mark all the edges of the 11.5cm square of blue cardstock at 1cm intervals. Draw lines across the back of the cardstock from one point to another to form a grid pattern on the back of the cardstock - use every alternate marked point. Emboss with an embossing stylus on the back of the card so the front surface of the card is raised. Sand the cardstock to reveal the grid texture.

Step 2

Punch a flower from the pink cardstock. Scrunch up the flower to crumple the cardstock. Flatten and sand the edges and across the top of the creases. Punch out a small circle of patterned paper and adhere to the middle of the flower. Cut a strip of pink textured cardstock the width of the tape that goes into the Dymo labeller. Remove the regular roll of tape from the Dymo labeller and insert the cardstock in its place. Print the words ‘A LOT’ on the cardstock ‘tape’. Sand the edges of the tape and across the top of the raised lettering to reveal the cardstock core.

Step 3

Adhere the chipboard alphabet letters to a piece of cardstock ensuring that the word is no longer than 9cm in length. Trim the cardstock to 13cm by the width of the flashing tape. Adhere a strip of flashing tape over the top of the chipboard letters to cover the cardstock. Rub over with a brayer and then with a gentle touch, press the edges of the tape in around the raised letters. Ink a felt pad with the alcohol inks squeezing a generous amount of each of the colours but just two dots of gold (you only need a very small amount of metallic colour). Dab the ink over the foil tape and raised letters. Allow to dry and, if desired add another coat of ink to get an attractive mottled effect.

Step 4

When the alcohol ink is dry ink over the raised letters using the Archival ink pad. Using a paper towel, rub the archival ink off and when you do this, it will take the alcohol ink with it. If necessary apply some archival ink to a cotton bud and use it to ink the letters and remove any additional alcohol ink that remains on the raised letters.

Step 5

Trim a sheet of pink cardstock 11.5 cm x 23 cm, fold in half to make a card and sand the edges. Adhere the cardstock with the flashing tape on it to a strip of pattern paper and trim to 11cm allowing 1 cm of the patterned paper to show above and below the flashing tape. Adhere this to the embossed blue cardstock and affix the cardstock “Dymo tape” in position using the photo as a guide. Adhere the blue embossed cardstock to the front of the card and affix the flower through both layers of the card using the brad.