Hello, and welcome to my stop on the Simon Says Stamp Winter Twinkle Blog Hop. If you have not hopped from the start, head to the Simon blog HERE. :)
If you have just hopped from the lovely blog of my talented friend Kathy Racoosin, then welcome!!
Today we are hopping along to celebrate the December Card Kit. It's such a fun kit, with an embossing theme. So, I've got a simple shaker card to share that features some embossing on the gorgeous silver card that comes in the kit.
I admit, I was a little skeptical about embossing on this surface (I am NOT an embossing expert…) thinking the ink might slip and slide on this shiny card… but how wrong I was. It stuck beautifully, and left a super crisp impression.
As I mentioned, I do not consider myself to be an embossing expert… in fact, I am pretty lazy when it comes to embossing.
I remember the wonder of embossing for the first time… it was like magic. My sister (who lives in Canada) bought me a heat gun and together we tried it out. We were both pretty excited by the results, and she isn't even into paper crafting. :)
Today, I tend to use embossing most when working with watercolours - it's a great way to keep the paint in place and create lovely pools of paint (see this card HERE with a photo tutorial, THIS card which also has a tutorial, or this card HERE). I love that this kit gave me a kick up the butt to get my heat gun out to emboss a sentiment. I love the look and will certainly be trying it out again soon. :)
I remember the wonder of embossing for the first time… it was like magic. My sister (who lives in Canada) bought me a heat gun and together we tried it out. We were both pretty excited by the results, and she isn't even into paper crafting. :)
Today, I tend to use embossing most when working with watercolours - it's a great way to keep the paint in place and create lovely pools of paint (see this card HERE with a photo tutorial, THIS card which also has a tutorial, or this card HERE). I love that this kit gave me a kick up the butt to get my heat gun out to emboss a sentiment. I love the look and will certainly be trying it out again soon. :)
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Simon Says Stamp is giving away a grab bag on every stop of the hop. The grab bag will be filled with lots of fun products to try. Leave a comment here (and on every stop) by 6.00pm EST on Saturday November 29th.
Right - time to hop on. Your next stop is my sweet friend:
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445 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 445 of 445Oh WOW! Your card is so pretty, Lucy :-D I love the blue color, layout, stitches... EVERYTHING!
Thank you so much for sharing this lovely card with us :-D
Thanks for the chance to win!
Love this card, just beautiful! I'm becoming a quick fan of embossing! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful card. You did a good job of embossing.
Beautiful card! I love the lovely shaker windows and the layering!
Using the ornament dies to cut the windows for the shakers was a great idea!
I love how you used the sequins and made this into a shaker card!
Enjoying all the shaker card ideas with this kit.
Love that you used the sentiment on an ornament. Such a pretty idea. This is a beautiful kit.
Love the combination of using the positive and negative space from the Dies. Very pretty card.
Cute shaker card!!
Diggin' the shaker.
Beautiful card. I didn't think to use the ornaments dies for the shaker card cut outs. What an awesome idea!! TFS xxx
Clever card. I'm learning lots on this blog hop.
Lovely card! The color of the embossing powder looks so elegant! I need to make a shaker card!!!
Great shaker card.
Love the sequins and the embossing.
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Pretty card! I love the stitching and sequin shaker. Thanks for sharing.
What a fun shaker card! I love that there are two windows!
Your card is very nice and I like the colour you used. I love embossing. I never tire of seeing it melt. haha
I love the ornament dies and you've made a great shaker card with it, thanks for the great ideas :)
Stunning card!
What a pretty shaker card. I love that any shape for which you have a die can now be a shaker. Lovely card. Thanks.
nice card TFS
Cute Shaker card!!
It looks fabulous!
And thanks for watercolor tutorial - it looks simple.
Really stunning card!
love this design!!! this card is so cool!! :)
Very pretty card. Thank you
*¨¨*:•.*.•:*¨¨*:Lucy, Happy Holidays to you and your family! :*¨¨*:•.*.•:*¨¨*
Fun shaker card! Love it!
Hi Lucy!
What a beautiful shaker card! Thanks for sharing...have a fabulous day! :)
Shaker inside a shaped bauble - so clever! Gorgeous card :)
Love your card! Very creative and fun!
Wow...love this shaker card...and the colors!
Gorgeous card. So elegant and fun!
Your shaker card is very clever. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
Love the ornaments as the shaker part of the card. So very pretty and different.
thanks for sharing a beautiful card
What a lovely shaker card, Lucy ... the shimmer on the sequins complements the embossing so beautifully! Anita :)
Beautiful card, love the die cuts and sequins. Love the embossing too
I hadn't embossed a card in ages either and this blog hop is mighty inspirational; hanx for the inspiration and blog candy opp!
Ohhhh this is such a pretty shaker card, love your embossing :)
Loved the card!
Gorgeous shaker card. Love the ornament windows. Hugz
I love Shaker cards too--yours is beautiful!!!
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