Afterthoughts- embedded embossing.

I love the Square Lattice folder and embedded embossing is one of the reasons why.

• The card base is Whisper White with a front of Early Espresso CS.
• Using all of my circle punches I punch from Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Marina Mist.
• Using markers I colored each line in the birthday phrase from After thoughts. I started with Marina Mist then Soft Suede and last Early Espresso, I stamped it on Whisper White and punched it out with the 1 3/4" circle.
• On a piece of Whisper White CS I randomly laid out my circles adhering some of them overlapping each other. I added my punched out phrase and then placed it into the Square Lattice folder and ran it through the Big Shot.
• Using the cupcake from Itty Bitty Bits I color it with Marina Mist, Soft Suede and Poppy Parade markers. I places the image into a Build-a-brad and attached to the embedded embossed piece. Finally adding it to the card base.

If you haven't tried this yet, I hope you will soon.

 



Afterthoughts

I love the Level 1 Hostess set Afterthoughts, they speak my thoughts. ;-) 

• The card base is Whisper White with a Basic Black layer that is 5 3/16" x 4 1/8" and a Whisper White layer that is 4" x 5 1/8" ran through the Big Shot with the Framed Tulips folder.
• The "Thanks I love being spoiled" is stamped directly on the front with Stazon.
• The DSP is Real Red and Basic Black punched with the 1 1/4" Square punch opposite corners punched with the corner rounder. Each DSP square is layered onto the opposite color of CS punched with the 1 3/8" Square punch (opposite corners punched as well)  These were added to the card front with a squared corner of each square pointing in.
• The ribbon is the Organza Ribbon, I dyed it Read Red with Re inkers and Rubbing Alcohol. the ribbon is a faux bow, with the Black Glimmer brad making the "knot" of the bow.

This card is easy to make and turned out so pretty in Real Life.  Have a great week end and try to find time to stamp something.

Note to Hostess Club Girls- Club meeting time has changed to Mondays at 10:30 am. You are going to love what we are making.(I will post what we make on Monday)

After Thoughts- Hostess Level 1

I liked the tongue in cheek phrases in After thoughts, I think they are fun. I also think that the cake in Birthday Bliss is really cute, but it was too small to go with this phrase.  So I made a paper cake patterned off the image from Birthday Bliss.

• Card Base is Pear Pizazz,
• Cake is Chocolate, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, and Pink Pirouette. I used the square punches, trimmed them and corner rounded them, ran some through the Big Shot in folders and also used border punches. I stacked my cake using Dimensionals, on a scallop Oval of Whisper White as my plate.
• I stamped my phrase on Whisper White using the Chocolate Chip and Pretty in Pink markers.  I used the new Scallop Square Clearlit to cut out my phrase. I added 3 pink Rhinestone brads and was finished! 

For some reason the phrase in the photo looks crooked, not in real life. Over all I'm happy with the card