Triple Embossing

Yesterday, I finally got around to doing some triple embossing. I'd bought some die cut card shapes some weeks ago with a view to decorating them with embossing powder, but with everything else that's been going on, they've been languishing, unused.

I had a couple of images that I'd stamped and coloured weeks ago, and I decided to make some embellishments for them.

The image is a stamp  I won some months ago. It's a Little Darlings stamp from Love to Stamp. It's such a pretty image. I did stamp it ages ago, and I even coloured it about three months ago, but it's lain there, waiting for me to do something with it. Unusually, I coloured it with my Derwent Coloursoft pencils as I thought they'd give the soft effect I was looking for. The paper is one I designed for a different card ages ago, and the flowers were triple embossed with Cosmic Shimmer ultra-thick powder, and then stamped with a celtic knotwork stamp which was amongst the first stamps I ever bought.

To let you see the detail ...

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Challenge Up Your Life where anything goes,
ATCs and Cards with Attitude where anything goes,
Southern Girls where they want something watery,
Creative Challenges where the theme is 'Summertime',
Papercrafting Journey where anything goes,
Inky Impressions where they want embossing,



The second card is quite different!

This one uses some Clarity stamps - the Versatile Vase, a flower one and a swirl one whose names I can't currently remember! I had to do some masking, but was quite pleased with the result. I used Memento ink for the main image and Distress Ink for the swirls, and I coloured with Promarkers. I've added some more Distress Ink around the image, and a paper from the Papermania Capsule collection.

In this instance, I used two different embossing powders. First, I used a Cosmic Shimmer powder (not ultra-thick). I thought it was a bit dark, so I pulled out some pale lilac that I bought some years ago but haven't used often. On the lilac layer, I stamped as I did on the last card, and I hated the result! You couldn't see any of the shimmery colours, only the matte, basic lilac. So, I added another layer of the Cosmic Shimmer, and heated until the embossing melted to flat, which gave me a rather nice marbled effect. And I finished with some Spellbinders die cuts.

So, another proof that mistakes can lead to something rather nice!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Fat Pages and Cards with Attitude where anything goes,
Simply Create Too where anything goes,
My Heart Pieces where they want us to use design paper,
Die Cutting Divas where anything goes,
Bearly Mine where anything goes,
The Stamping Boutique where anything goes,