This card was definitely a challenge! One of the challenges for Sweet 'n' Sassy's newest release celebrations was CAS: sentiment only. Now, I'm all for clean and simple, but to use only a sentiment and no images was HARD!!! So, then I thought of those cards and tutorials I've seen where people have embossed everything but a circle/oval/whatever which is left flat to allow a sentiment to be stamped. So, I thought, yeah, I can do that, how hard can it be. Let me tell you, it's not easy. But, as you can see, I did manage to do it, although my center section did get embossed ever so lightly. Then, I thought it wasn't defined enough so I would embossed the die itself into the center. That came out great, but while embossing it, the pressure flattened out the snowflake embossing a bit. So, if you are going to give it a try, I recommend embossing the die first and than using the embossing folder. After that, I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment, swiped white ink around the edges of the embossed panel and added a dot of glitter pen to the centers of the snowflakes.
Challenges:
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #94--snowflakes
Tuesday Alchemy #35--Anything goes
Supplies:
Cardstock: PTI enchanted evening
Stamps: Verve "Richly Blessed"
Dies/embossing folders: spellbinders label 4; cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder
2 comments:
The embossing looks great - and the sentiment - a very elegant card - thanks for joining in my CHNC challenge 94 - hope to see you again soon. x
Look at this fab CAS card! The white sentiment looks beautiful against the dark blue embossed paper. CAS cards are the trickiest to make, and I think you've done a wonderful job!
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