I am so glad that you stopped by my blog this week! I am celebrating my Brother-in-Law’s birthday and I hope you will too. Using some of my new Hot Off the Press stamps I created this very masculine card.
Embossed Birthday Card
One of the things I like about this card is it uses both a dry and wet embossing technique. To make this card I did the following:
- I cut a light blue cardstock to be a folded 5.5″ x 4.5″.
- I cut the patterned paper the same size as the card, 5.5″ x 4.5″ and covered the front of the card.
- I cut gold cardstock in a 3″x 3″ square and matted it on a square of red cardstock 3.25″ x 3.25″.
- Using a texture plate I dry embossed a 4″ x 4″ square of neutral cardstock. I then inked the cardstock with brown chalk ink using the Tim Holtz inking tool.
- I matted this on a red cardstock square of 4.25″ x 4.25″.
- I glued down all of the squares, centering them with one another.
- I used my new Hot Off the Press stamps to stamp the sentiment on the birthday card and the image on the gold cardstock.
- In both cases I used a wet embossing technique by stamping the image with Versamark ink. This is a clear ink. Before the ink can dry, I covered the ink with Black super fine embossing powder. The powder is then melted using a heat gun.
I hope you like this masculine card. More importantly, I hope my Brother-In-Law likes it as well, Happy Birthday!
Embossed Birthday Card
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Michelle