When I purchased this new embossing folder I knew I was going to make a die out of the center flower. To accomplish this I dry embossed white cs, fussy cut the flower and greenery, scanned it into laptop as a jpeg then reversed the b&w. Imported that image into Silhouette, selected trace image tool and used that image to cut this flower to white cs then dry embossed before adding water color, markers and gel pens. BG embossed piece is the scrape leftover from fussy cutting and stripe strips are sheets I print on white waterproof sticker paper then cut fine strips. This paper works great because it is tough when cutting such small strips and it has adhesive already attached. Works great if you want to use paper to die cut, too. I keep several sheets of varying widths of stripes handy. Gold braid was tied in bow and arranged then stuck down with rolled up glue dots. Found if I heat the braid with heat gun slightly while in the shape I want, it shrinks ever so much and stays in that shape. This is a small side fold note size card.
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Love how you came up with a way to cut out parts of your embossed images; thanks for sharing your instructions. Great tip on adding heat to the gold cord to keep it’s shape as well. The color you added to your die cut looks great; beautiful against the white!
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Thanks Lisa, you would be able to get many looks with an ef and die to match.
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Beautiful! Love all the details!
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Thanks Diana, lots going on for such a small card.
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Beautiful card! I like the colorful embossed flower.
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Thanks LIsaK, It is really fun to see the water color fall into the nooks and crannies of the embossing. I am looking at making some gilding wax to play with next.
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Beautiful, creative and pretty amazing. Love the color on your flower and the steps to create such a beautiful card.
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Thanks Gayle, sounds way more complicated than it was. Plus now I have the cutout and will be fun to use in different ways.
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Beautiful. Embossing folders with matching dies are becoming the latest thing. You’re very clever figuring out how to do it without an actual die. Thanks for the tip about the braid. I will sure give that a try.
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Thanks Judy, it has been fun to find ef that make great dies. Only have two so far but am keeping a look out. Don’t know if one can ever have too many ef.
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That sounds like a lot of work, but It’s really pretty and now you have it to use over and over.
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Thanks Golda, it is never really work, more like play. I do enjoy figuring out how to get what I want with what I already have. Sometimes it works other, not so much.
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Wow this is beautiful!
Thank you so much for entering our challenge this week at CRAFT Challenge looking forward to see you again next challenge.
Hugs Sheryl CRAFT DT xx
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Thanks Sheryl, so glad you like what I came up with.
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Oh my gosh, this is beautiful. Sure wish you could come to Vegas to show me how to do the things you do on the Silhouette.
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Oh you are so sweet Gerry, getting together would be a hoot. I have often thought about having a stamping weekend with all the stamp buddies.
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Gorgeous card. Thank you for joining us at the CRAFT Challenge blog. Good luck with your entry.
Hugs Renske CRAFT DT
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