I have been making some Clean and Simple Christmas cards using my favourite snowflake die: Kate's Snowflake by Simon Says Stamp and a new embossing folder which I picked up at a Craft Show in October. The embossing folder is by Nellie Snellen - Christmas Round and was just the right size for the snowflake die to fit inside - yay!
On Jennifer Maguire's blog, I had seen Jennifer diecut things then heat-emboss them and thought I would give it a try - and it worked really, really well.
I smooched the diecut snowflake very thoroughly with Colorbox Sapphire Silk pigment ink and poured on Polysparkle embossing powder and picked it up very carefully with my closed-point tweezers and heat-set it. As soon as the powder melted I poured on a 2nd coat of embossing powder and heat-set it. You really do need two coats of the embossing powder to get really smooth coverage - one just doesn't look as good.
I adhered the snowflake to my white cardstock using Tombow Mono Multi glue which gave me a little bit of time to line up the points perfectly. I cleaned up any stray bits of glue using my Xyron adhesive eraser.
I have also seen on Jennifer Maguire's blog how Jennifer had made matching embossed edges to her embossed diecuts so I did this same technique for the bottom matching border. All you have to do is take a scrap of white cardstock and apply the same ink that you use for your diecuts to one edge and heat-set with two coats of embossing powder then trim it to size. Simple and quick! I attached it to the card base using doublesided tape.
I tied on the blue sparkly ribbon and added Fray Stop to the cut ends to stop them from fraying. I glued the tails down with Tombow Mono Multi glue to hold them in place because they kept blowing in the wind when I was trying to photograph them!
Lastly, I added a Kaisercraft Ice Blue rhinestone to the snowflake centre. I couldn't figure out where to put a sentiment so left it off.
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Fri, Jan 30, 2015 @ 2:11 AM
Love this card...I'm not usually a clean & simple gal, but this is elegant. I love the circular embossing folder...so glad you include your "recipe." All of your snowflake cards are beautiful, but I think this one is my favorite!
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