Framelit Embossing

Today's card is using one of the Framelits dies to emboss rather than to cut. This is done by placing the cardstock on the non-cutting side of the die and using a silicone mat along with the die cutting machine plate(s). As all machines are different you do have to play around with this to make sure you get the sandwich right but it is worth it in the end, so I suggest you use some scrap card to start with and once you get the sandwich right, write it down because, if you're anything like me, you'll never remember next time!

After embossing a piece of Whisper White I then used the negative part of the diecut as a mask and stamped the image from Wedding Sweet in Rich Razzleberry. Perfect Plum and Rich Razzleberry butterflies, cut with the Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die, were scattered around and some Perfect Pearls added to their bodies. The sentiment was punched with the Modern label punch and layered onto a Rich Razzleberry label which is cut with one of the Lots of Tags dies. This was layered onto a piece of Rich Razzleberry cardstock before glueing onto a card blank.

Shades of Green

The Less is More challenge for this week is '3 Shades of Green' and this is my entry. Now, if you can't say anything else about it, you can say it is very definitely clean & simple and it took less than 10 minutes to make!!

I started by stamping the flower stem from the Simply Soft Hostess set in what I thought was Old Olive but I'll come back to that later, then matted this onto Certainly Celery and then on to a piece of textured Garden Green cardstock. A knot of Old Olive Narrow Taffeta was tied around and then the panel was fixed on to a DL card blank. The sentiment was punched with the Word Window punch and matted onto an Old Olive tag cut with the Lots of Tags die.

Right, back to the stamped image - I thought I had an Old Olive stamp pad and merrily made my card, however when I came to stick the sentiment onto the tag I noticed it was a different colour to the cardstock. On further investigation I realised that, in my hurry to make my card, I had got the Wild Wasabi ink pad instead of the Old Olive. The colours all looked ok together and as the card was practically finished it seemed a waste to start again. So my apologies for the '3 Shades of Green' actually being '4 Shades of Green' but maybe you wouldn't have noticed anyway :0)