3 ways to use embossing folders or my love of pineapples

 I am thrilled to be sharing a fun post over at the Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine blog on their Card Cafe Thursday! Stop over and learn three ways to use your embossing folders, and see how deep my love for pineapples truly is!

thanks for stopping by!

~kimberly

WCMD Double Faux Letterpress Video Tutorial + MFT Sneak Peek

Welcome back for my second post of the day! I hope you are having fun on World Card Making Day already!

The idea behind today is kicking off the holiday card making season, so with that in mind, I have some pretty great techniques and ideas for creating mail-able cards. I love creating layers on my cards, but that just doesn't work well when I need to mail them. Its fine for an occasional birthday card, but to mail in bulk? Nope. Be sure and take a look at all the ideas I am sharing today; beautiful cards with great techniques that make them look layered and elegant.

With that idea in mind, here is a video tutorial about a technique I happened upon the other night. I wanted to create a beautiful cardstock panel. One that would have depth and color and stand alone on a card. I started by simply Faux Letterpressing with an embossing folder, but I decided to take it one step further. 

Take a look.

Click image below:

Direct Link: Double Faux Letterpress

As today progresses, I will be sharing these Mail-able Card tips, in green, below. Keep an eye out on all my posts, and I hope they inspire you as you start creating your holiday cards!

Mail-able Card Idea #1:

Create a beautiful panel of cardstock to use as a focal point.

Mail-able Card Idea #2:

Trim your cardstock panel and insert the sentiment, instead of layering it on top.

Here is another card using the Double Faux Letterpress technique.

Mail-able Card Idea #3:

Use a piece of cardstock or patterned paper to die cut or punch a focal image.

Mail-able Card Idea #4:

Instead of creating another layer with a die cut shape, emboss-only with your die template.

SNEAK PEEK ALERT!

Shhhhhh! I got permission to share a little bit of the October release from My Favorite Things early! This set of dies is going to be the Free with $60 purchase set this month! Die-namics Christmas Tree Cut-Out makes this fantastic tree! I thought it would be great to use the Double Faux Letterpress background panel to create a focal image.

And be sure and head over to the MFT Blog because there are amazing prizes to be won!

Check out my blog prize HERE.
PRIZE DETAILS:

Leave a comment on each of my blog posts today by 10 PM CST Sunday, October 5. Each comment will get you another entry. I will draw a name Sunday night and announce the winner here on Monday.

see you soon! thanks for stopping by!

~kimberly

Supplies for Sending Christmas Cheer card:

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Supplies for Happy Holidays card:

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thinking of you with faux letterpress

Happy Monday! Hope you had a great weekend! As I always seem to say, things have been busy. The little man started with a new teacher on Monday because their class sizes were so big. They added another teacher and split the students evenly. I am glad. He loves his new teacher. Whew. Cub Scouts and swimming started. I am now singing in the choir (and soon playing worship team) at church, and all the usual running around life throws our way. You know what? Life is good. :)

The look of negative space is so popular. I love it. Using Viola Sprouts, a die template from Simon Says Stamp, I die a piece of cardstock. (I set the flowers aside for another project.) 

Then I thought it would be fun to make a faux letter press pattern to place behind my open flowers. To create it, I simply inked up the raised edges of an embossing folder, placed cardstock inside the folder, and ran it through my manual die cutting machine. I adhered the faux letterpressed cardstock behind the open flowers with Crafty Foam Tape. The whole panel was attached to a card base.

And it looks like I need to film a video tutorial on this super fun technique! Soon. Its going on my list!

thanks for stopping by!

~kimberly

my friend

This is one of my all-time favorite cards. It was made last year after CHA and was going to be published in Scrapbooks Etc. Sadly, the magazine is no longer around and this was never published.

The cardstock was letter pressed by applying ink to an embossing folder. The flower, leaves, and sentiments were all die cut.

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by!


~kimberly

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favorite cards of 2011

Happy New Year! I hope that your year is off to a wonderful start! It seemed like it would be fun to share some of my favorite projects from the past year. Today cards, then altered items, and scrap pages. Its fun to look back and remember all the projects and ideas and work! If the link is worth visiting, I added it underneath the card. Some of the projects have video tutorials, so there are links for those as well. Enjoy!

CardMaker Magazine blog post: Faux Letterpress, Spellbinders, Hero Arts, my very first blog post on the blog team

Faux Letterpress: Spellbinders, with video tutorial
Video tutorial: Faux Letterpress

Sorry, this project has been removed for publication. :)
friends: a favorite publication reject

just saying hello: another reject, and its ok :)

another hello: resist embossing technique

Sorry, this project has been removed for publication. :)
those you hold well: Moxie Fab World challenge card

my favorite pattern-chevron: Spellbinders, Mint Motif

SORRY! This project had to be removed for publication. :)
Look for it in the June 2012 issue of CARDS magazine.

thank you: die cutting felt, Spellbinders, Technique Tuesday, Kaiser Craft


pair of socks: Avocado Arts

the little things: Hero Arts, with video tutorial
Video tutorial: Acrylic block stamping
Its great to be back home after visiting both sets of families in MN last week. We had a great time celebrating Christmas and eating way too much good food! Snow tubing and ice fishing, board game playing, and movie watching also rounded out our time together. Its tough to get back into the groove of things! CHA is approaching quickly, which means tons of artwork to complete. The Spellbinders Abilities and Beyond Blog Frenzy is also on its way…oooh fun stuff to share! It means that the old blog here will be a bit neglected again, but I am learning to say no, even to posting. :)
thanks for stopping by and for all of your comments, encouragement, and emails!!!
~kimberly

Video Tutorial: Letter Press with Impressabilities

Here it is. My first video tutorial. I cover; Letter Pressing with Impressabilities, a cool way to letter press and emboss with a die template, and how to letter press with a single piece of an Impressabilities.
Let me know what you think, as I am learning the best way to share and your feedback will be invaluable!! And, go ahead and laugh at my unstyled hair and my SAHM outfit! :)



Some of you have mentioned not being able to hear this. I visited my blog and played it without issue. There is a volume control on the tool bar where you can turn the volume up. It is located next to the time. I hope that helps. :)

If you cannot get the video to play, here is a link:
Letter Press Tutorial

have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Spellbinders art work

I am SO excited to share these projects with you!! This first Spellbinders project is featured in the New Release catalog and highlights the totally fabulous Letter Press technique that is all the rage. By inking an Impressabilities, placing cardstock over the top of it, and then running it through the machine, you get this gorgeous, and I mean gorgeous, inked and embossed pattern.

Supplies: Spellbinders Die Templates-Flower Impressabilities, Rectangles Large, Scalloped Rectangles Large, Nested Butterfly, Patterned paper and sticker-Chatterbox (Fabulous), Ribbon-Creative Impression, Ink-Clearsnap (ColorBox Chalk Pumpkin Que, Chocolate and Blueberries Que), Cardstock-Papertrey Ink (Vintage Cream, Dark Chocolate)

This is the card that is featured on the Circle Cut Impressabilities packaging. That still amazes me!!! This card also uses the Letter Press technique. Isn’t that background groovy?

Supplies: Spellbinders Die Templates-Circle Cut Impressabilities (available early September), Labels 4, Stamps-Hero Arts (Everyday Messages), Ink-Clearsnap (Colorbox Chalk Black), Cardstock-Papertrey Ink (Stamper’s Select White, Raspberry Fizz, True Black)

And finally one more project featured in the New Release catalog. This is a baby shower ensemble that utilizes the wonderful new Borderabilities. I used the Eyelet Borderabilities to create a napkin ring, the bottom border of a name place card, the border of a flap of a treat box, and the decorative ring around a cupcake holder. So much fun! :)

Supplies: Spellbinders Die Templates-Eyelet Borderabilities, Patterned paper and Stamps-Crate (Lil Sprout), Ink-Clearsnap (Colorbox Chalk Pumpkin Que), Cardstock-Papertrey Ink (Vintage Cream), Twine-May Arts, Buttons-Papertrey Ink

Have a terrific day and thanks for stopping by!

Oh, a quick reminder, I LOVE when you ask questions, BUT, leave me an email so I can respond to you!! :) You can turn your email on in your Google profile, or leave it at the end of your comment. I feel so badly when I cannot help you out!!

And one more thing, Happy Birthday to my FIL!! :)