Embossed Christmas

 Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This week the challenge is Christmas with the optional twist: use your favorite technique.

And here is the card I created:

I had a bit of a hard time coming up with a favorite technique at first, and then once I started I had a hard time deciding on one!  I finally decided to go with heat embossing as I have been doing a bunch of it lately.  It is just so magical watching that powder melt!!  A couple weeks ago, my fellow Rock Star, Patti created a card using this stamp and she highlighted the scarf, hat and bird with red ink.  I really liked how it looked and I decided to recreate that using red embossing powder on the scarf only.  The rest of it I embossed with silver embossing powder.  I do love that pop of red; it's really fun!  It took some masking and a lot of hard pressure, but I think it was worth it.  I heat embossed the sentiment with silver as well, die cut the panel with a stitched rectangle die and brushed on some white ink around the edges.  I would have liked it to be more sparkly with maybe some glitter embossing powder, but I didn't have any.  Maybe another time.

Thanks for stopping by!  Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this challenge.  And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Snowman and Friend" and "Christmas"

Dies: MFT "Blueprints 13" stitched rectangle

Challenges:

Sweet Stampin--anything Christmas

Cards Galore--anything goes

Love To Craft Challenge Blog #65--anything goes

Crafty Calendar--Christmas

Creative Inspirations--Christmas time

We Love Stamping--anything goes with the optional twist: CAS

Merry Little Christmas--anything goes

Winter Wonderland--anything goes

Dare 2B Artzy--CAS

Crafty Creations #428--anything goes

613 Avenue Create--anything goes with the optional twist: any holiday

Crafting Happiness--anything goes

Creative Fingers #221--anything goes

Sweet Stampers #63--anything goes

Cupcake Inspirations #534--snow people

The Paper Shelter--anything goes

Creative Moments #228--anything goes

C.R.A.F.T. #622--Christmas

Krafty Chicks #590--CAS

Alphabet Challenge--S is for silver (I used silver embossing powder)

Cardz TV #156--anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #573--anything goes with the optional twist: use the word "Merry"

A Gem of a Challenge--anything goes

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #172--anything goes

Use Your Stuff #438--snow or winter

Tuesday Morning Sketches--anything goes