08 April 2019

Birthday Tea - embossing, die cutting


A lovely spot of tea for your birthday. My tea-full card features Impression Obsession dies with embossing from Emerald Creek.



Putting It Together

I love Emerald Creek embossing powders and their new lines with special effects. I picked up the new Magical Mysteries fairy wing kit a couple weeks ago and, with my experiments, discovered it can have a delightfully vintage porcelain look when it's layered thickly.



To emboss little die cuts, I attach them to scrap cardstock with repositionable adhesive. This gives the little pieces a handle to heat emboss safely.


The kit comes with a base that has a really lovely purple iridescence on its own. I embossed 3 layers of the base to give the pieces a lovely rounded look. I used Nuvo clear embossing ink for each layer by squishing the pad directly on the die cut. I use plastic packaging to protect my work surface from the sticky ink.


The kit comes with four pastel colours and a vintage gold very fine powders. After squishing the embossing ink on to the die cut, I used a small spoon to lightly add the colour powders. From playing with the kit earlier, for the vintage porcelain look, I discovered its best to add the gold after doing a layer with colours only.


I added the powders randomly before heat setting it. The colours and gold melt into the base to create a very lovely effect.


I repeated this on all of the die cuts except the tea bad and the sliver of tea. I used only the gold on the spoon after adding the base.


I used Copic markers on the tea sliver and tea bag.


Thickly layered embossing makes the die cuts into embellishment pieces.


I did a dry fit on a card base with a doily from some card kit of the past and a lovely Vintage Tea Party paper.


I used a tape runner to add everything to the white card base.


Inside, I used scrap from the patterned paper for a nice detail. I hadn't the heart to cut that rose.



Supplies



Challenges

Impression Obsession: Birthday Wishes
Watercooler Wednesday: Feminine
Seize the Birthday: Spring
Outlawz Tuesday: Colour: Pastel with something sweet
Dies R Use: Anything Goes

5 comments:

  1. Beautiful card. I love the way you heat embossed the small words and the teapot and cup. Pretty colors. Thank you for joining us at Seize the Birthday.

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  2. WOW! Just beautiful! Thanks so much for playing in our ‘Anything Goes DRU’ challenge at Dies R Us. Good Luck and please come back again soon!

    Darlene (DRU Blog Leader)
    DIES R US CHALLENGE BLOG
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  3. So pretty..love the sparkle and shine!Thanks for joining us at the Dies R Us Challenge!

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  4. So very beautiful and the porcelain look is awesome.

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  5. Wow! I love how your teapot and cup turned out!! This is a gorgeous Birthday card!

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