Thursday, September 25, 2025

Calee CT - Autumn is here .





Hello , as you will hopefully know this months challenge theme is embossing . So this week I have a card to share with you for my step by step . 
I have very little experience with any type of embossing , but in the past I have dabbled ,so thought I would give it another go. 

My first step was to have a go at dry embossing , using an inkable and my die cutting machine . I chose the Bakewell  Big One and ran it through my machine with a piece of white card . 


 This is the embossed piece of card , it is a little hard to see the embossing in a photo but it turned out fairly well .
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Next I added some ink , with a blending brush , to highlight the embossing . I chose two colours of distress ink , Picked Raspberry and Mustard seed. 

I then cut my card to size,  to fit a 6x6 card blank, then added a pink boarder on two sides . It was then mounted on to black card and glued down . 


Next I decided to do some heat embossing , and chose a simple stamped image , these mushrooms from  the Doodle Art Mushroom stamp set . 

I coloured these using Ecoline watercolour pens , adding a few white highlights with a gel pen . 

Next for the embossing , using an embossing ink pad and some clear embossing powder , I embossed the tops of the mushrooms . 


Here are the embossed mushrooms , again a little hard to see the effect of the embossing in a photo , but they were super glossy and the colours looked really bright. 


I have to admit that at this point I got alittle carried away with my embossing , and the collection of  (very under used ) embossing powders  I had found . So much so that I forgot to take a the next photo but as you can see I added in a few rain drops and a puddle  . 
After sticking down my mushrooms , this sentiment from the Autumn B wordy stickers completed my card . 

Thank you for taking a look at my play with embossing .  I did really enjoyed revisiting techniques I haven’t done in a long time  . If you haven’t embossed for a while or even if you have never had a go , then maybe this month’s challenge is the perfect opportunity to have ago .
Happy crafting 
Calee 
Here is a list of the products I use this week : 
A white card blank , sheets of white and black card , clear embossing powder, a white gel pen and Ecoline water colour pens .


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