Hello Again! I hope you're having a good week so far? I can't quite believe we are into the middle of May, but life has a habit of creeping up on you like that.
Seven Hills Crafts are now stocking the We R Memory Keepers Next Level embossing folders - well they have one set at the moment! - and I've been thinking about them for a long time, so I had to buy. At the same time I thought I'd get some of their felt because I'd seen Tara's blog post where she embossed it. I had to try!
I had a lot of fun and embossed both felt and card to see the comparison:
The felt is on the left, the card on the right. I have to say it worked amazingly well, and was really easy to follow Tara's instructions. You need to give the felt a good spray with starch, soak it really, and leave it a decent length of time in the embossing folder in the die cutting machine. I left the green in over night and after taking it out of the machine, left it in the embossing folder opened out on a window ledge to dry and it worked the best. So it takes a little time, but works for me as I find I card make in 15 minute chunks these days with small people around :)
I made cards out of the green to enter into the Seven Hills Craft Challenge for May which is all about embossing and also the Sugar Pea Designs Sugar Sketch #52. *Edit: I've also just discovered the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is all about felt, so of course I had to enter that too!* I decided to make two identical cards, one with felt, the other with the card. Felt is on the right.
I love the texture you get with these folders, and with the felt, it's just so tactile - you want to stroke it!!
I then die cut
them with my Spellbinders circle dies. I took a strip of Neenah and
stamped the sentiment from SPD Feeling Sentimental in Versafine Onyx
Black before attaching with double sided tape. I attached the circles with foam pads.
Below is a list of of what I used to make this card and where I purchased them. Please note I DO NOT USE affiliate links :)
I do love trying out new techniques, especially when they don't require me to buy a lot of tools and supplies - my spray starch was £1 and will come in handy for the ironing too!!
Thank you so much for reading and I hope you enjoy the rest of the week, whatever you are up to - crafting I hope ;)
Seven Hills Crafts are now stocking the We R Memory Keepers Next Level embossing folders - well they have one set at the moment! - and I've been thinking about them for a long time, so I had to buy. At the same time I thought I'd get some of their felt because I'd seen Tara's blog post where she embossed it. I had to try!
I had a lot of fun and embossed both felt and card to see the comparison:
The felt is on the left, the card on the right. I have to say it worked amazingly well, and was really easy to follow Tara's instructions. You need to give the felt a good spray with starch, soak it really, and leave it a decent length of time in the embossing folder in the die cutting machine. I left the green in over night and after taking it out of the machine, left it in the embossing folder opened out on a window ledge to dry and it worked the best. So it takes a little time, but works for me as I find I card make in 15 minute chunks these days with small people around :)
I made cards out of the green to enter into the Seven Hills Craft Challenge for May which is all about embossing and also the Sugar Pea Designs Sugar Sketch #52. *Edit: I've also just discovered the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is all about felt, so of course I had to enter that too!* I decided to make two identical cards, one with felt, the other with the card. Felt is on the right.
I love the texture you get with these folders, and with the felt, it's just so tactile - you want to stroke it!!
I cut the
embossed card/felt to A2 size and attached it to a white card base with
double sided tape. I stamped out the ring from my Every Day is Christmas
set (yes I love this set it's official!) and coloured with Copic
markers, adding a little white gel pen for hightlights. The little gems
are from my Clearly Besotted Pirate Party set and coloured with my Jade
Spectrum Sparkle pen - they are so sparkly!
Below is a list of of what I used to make this card and where I purchased them. Please note I DO NOT USE affiliate links :)
I do love trying out new techniques, especially when they don't require me to buy a lot of tools and supplies - my spray starch was £1 and will come in handy for the ironing too!!
Thank you so much for reading and I hope you enjoy the rest of the week, whatever you are up to - crafting I hope ;)
