Embossing in Layers

I'm popping in today to share a quick card. I've seen this technique from a couple of different blogs and thought it looked really cool. I white heat embossed this "Happy Birthday" greeting on the Kraft card stock and then again on the red and blue. Using several different sizes punches, I cut out circles from the red and blue card stock and overlayed them on top of the Kraft. I really like the effect. I will have to try this one again soon. 

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Here is a close up of the circles. Hope you had a great weekend. Go Seahawks! :)

Happy Stamping!!

Love...and It's Your Birthday!

Sometimes I just can't think of anything clever to title a post. :)

Today I got a chance to play with some new stamps and dies that arrived in the mail. The first is a birthday card. I don't know about you, but I seem to know a lot of people with winter birthdays. 

To make this card, I white heat embossed the word "birthday" and then stamped the flowers over the top. Antique Linen Distress Ink helped the embossing to stand out.

The second card is a Valentine card. 

I fell in love with this Papertrey Ink "Love" die the first time I saw it and had to have it. I love the beautiful window effect. 

I die cut it from the center of the card, glued it to some pattern paper and then adhered that to the back of the card face. To get it centered right, I temporarily attached the patterned paper with some post-it tape, applied glue to the Love die and then pressed it into the center frame. I then removed the post-it tape and glued the entire panel in place.

The border around the frame is stamped once again using my all time favorite background stamp, "Splatter" from Impression Obsession. I use this stamp all the time. I used Charcoal Grey Shadow Ink and Unicorn White Ink both from Hero Arts. 

Happy Stamping!!