Hi Friends! This is Caitlin from Caitlin Annalee Cards and I am sharing a very fun and sparkly winter card with you today. I have been so eager to play with combining dry and heat embossing and this was finally the time. This didn’t turn out exactly as I thought it would, but I love it anyway and I think with some practice I will get the result that I was originally looking for. My end goal was for each snowflake to be fully and cleanly embossed with the glitter embossing powder and that wasn’t quite what happened but I think the extra glitter here and there just adds to a frosty affect for this project specifically.
To start this card, I grabbed some of the gorgeous winter plaid from the Year Round Plaids Paper Pack that I trimmed down to be A2 sized (5.5 in x 4.25 in). I attached that to a side folding A2 card base and decided that this would determine the rest of my color palette. I took a scrap of Barbershop card stock and trimmed it to be 5 in x 3.75 in and kept a smaller scrap that came off of this for the sentiment later. The next step was to trim a piece of Salon card stock down to 4.75 in x 3.5 in so that the Barbershop blue would create a very thin nice frame around it. I ran the pink card stock through my die cut machine with the Snow Day Embossing Folder and then it was time to heat emboss. I used the Magic Anti Static Brush all over the card stock generously and then I gently stamped over the paper with the Embossing ink. My goal was to only press hard enough that the snowflakes would get ink on them. It was somewhat successful. I poured on a good layer of the Icicle Embossing Powder and then tapped the card over a some printer paper to catch the extra. I used a clean medium sized brush to get rid of some of the powder that had gotten on the areas between the snowflakes and then I heat set the remaining powder.
Once the paper had cooled down, I adhered the blue and pink panels to the card base and started work on my stamped feature image. I stamped the skating marshmallow snowman from the Hello Winter stamp set with the Asphalt Ink and let it dry for a few minutes. I used Copic Sketch Markers to color in my image and then the coordinating dies to cut it out. I decided to heat emboss the sentiment only that scrap of Barbershop card stock with Frosting embossing powder, which is my favorite white embossing powder because it is so bright white. I added another layer of scrap paper from my plaid panel to give the sentiment a little more weight and to help ground the stamped image which would be right above it. I added my sentiment and image and then I realized this card could still use a little more sparkle… lol. So I added some of the light pink gems from the Warm Jellies Gems set to the center of some of the embossed snowflakes with liquid glue. I really love this card and I can’t wait to practice this double embossed technique again soon!
