Embossing, embossing, embossing...

Greetings! Here's a card I've been working on the last couple nights... mostly waiting. Waiting for glue to dry. Waiting for ink to dry. Waiting for Stickles to dry. Next time, I'm pulling out the heat gun. LOL

The main inspiration for this wintry holiday card was all the gorgeous embossing I've seen this season on the blogs and challenges I've been following combined with a glue-embossing Fiskars project I'd seen last Spring.

To start, I sprinkled a lot of Glamour Dust in Crystal over a Sizzix embossing Texture plate and brushed most of it into the snowflakes.Then I poured a liberal amount of Elmer's basic white School Glue over the lot and set it aside to dry. It took two days for it to dry completely so I could peel it off the embossing plate. Then I cut it down to a square and adhered it to a really pretty royal blue cardstock. My lousy winter nighttime photos are not doing it justice. Sigh.

Anyway, I embossed a square of white plain white cardstock and some plain cardstock cut with a Labels 18 Nestie, running a silver metallic gel pen over the edges of the Label diecut. You can see those details best in some of the angle photos. (Warning, this post will be photo-full as I kept trying to capture the really pretty in-real-life sparkle of the embossed glue panel!)  I lightly sponged some Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink over several Martha Stewart snowflakes cut from textured white cardstock, added Stickles to the largest and one smaller flake I left white.

I added some bling, popped up both the middle snowflake and the Label diecut with foam dots, and put it all together over a square of pearlescent silver paper. It's pretty simple, but there's lots of texture and sparkle, so hopefully it's not too boring. LOL

Here are some more angle photos...

 

A close up of the lovely sparkles =)





These two I tried to play with the lighting, so the color's awfully yellow, but I think you can see the Glamour Dust better...

Or not... lol =)

Challenges for this project...

1 Simply Create Too - #2 Embossing

2 Christmas All Year Round - Card #4 for December

3 ABC Challenge - F is for Frosty

4 Papertake Weekly - Last Christmas Card of the Year

5 Creative Inspirations - #143 Anything Goes

6 Colour Create - #86 Blue, Silver & White

7 Paper Play Challenge - #50 Christmas

8 Glitter Geeks - #28 Anything Goes

9 Hiding In My Craft Room - #25 Embossing

10 One Stop Crafting - #162 Christmas Sparkle

So, that's it for tonight... have a few more works of art underway, but I probably won't post them until tomorrow or perhaps Saturday... crazy busy with only a couple more sleeps left! =)

Happy Crafting!

Christy