Crafty Cardmakers heat Embossing Challenge + Carnaby Street

Hi All!!

Crafty Cardmakers have  a new challenge over on the blog. This time it's Heat Embossing. This challenge is hosted by Josephine and this is what she had to say about it:

‘Any technique using heat embossing - stamping or ultra-thick embossing powder or something else I haven't thought of!’

We are kindly sponsored for this challenge by The Stampman (and Lady of course!) who are offering the winner the Starburst Stains lovely prize pictured above.

Starburst Stains - Brush on The Fun - Holiday Wreath

Deep, rich, vibrant colours with a two-toned shimmer!

These are all dye based products, which give them that vibrancy and can be used on any porous surface, (paper, wood, fabric, balsa, chipboard, etc).

Instructions on how to use: Add hot water, (filtered preferably, especially with the stains), let sit at least 10 minutes.

Shake or stir before each use

We're still looking for new design team members - so if you are interested, link your entry and at DT at the end of your name.

Now, I didn't take part in this challenge - but pop on over to the Crafty Cardmakers Blog to check out what the other design team members came up with!! Some brilliant inspiration!!

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Carnaby Street

Here is one of my recent makes. It was for my stepdaughter - I rather like the combination of the Kanban Carnaby Street toppers with the Union Jack cardstock.  I cut the bottom borders using the triple scallop edgeability and a combination of inserts. The top border is made from the two off cuts.

The topper is raised up on foam tape, and mounted directly onto the Union Jack card. A piece of wine coloured silk ribbon was wrapped around the bottom, before it was mounted onto the card.

I mounted the silver letters and numbers onto scalloped oval mats of white, burgundy and black. A couple of organza bows and a touch of glaze finished it off.

Cxx

Butterfly Jewels!

When it came to making an anniversary card for my OH's Mum and Stepdad. I rummaged through my stash for this Hunkydory Butterfly Jewels collection. I have a tendency, when I buy topper, paper and cardstock kits like this, to sort through it and put toppers, matching papers, base cards and envelopes together into individual plastic wallets which I keep in a (rather large) plastic box (well - it's more like a crate). That way, I can just rummage either when I need a card, or when I have time on my hands for general card making - and half the hassle of decision making is already done.

So, my rummaging found the makings of two cards - 'With Love' for the anniversary card - and a bonus 'Happy Birthday' one thrown in for good measure. The a6 card bases are made from an a4 sheet of silk art card, and the toppers are mounted onto co-ordinating paper. I used the triple scallop edgeability with an insert to edge the silver mirror card for the 'Happy Birthday' card, and used the 'waste' of that with another insert for the 'With Love' card.

I forgot to take a photo of the anniversary card before I sent it, but this is the Happy Birthday one!!

A little organza ribbon through the tag, and a delicate application of glaze to make the larger jewels stand out, and they're finished.

Two similar - yet different - cards!! (Although you obviously can only see one of them!!)

Cxx