Embossing with dies-2

Happy Sunday! Hope your day has been restful and you are ready to take on the week ahead!

Today, I have a card for the Addicted to CAS codeword DOTS challenge.

I wrote a post a few days ago about embossing with dies and this card is one more with the same technique. 

The die is from Cottage Cutz and I wish I was ble to use it for die cutting as successfully as I do for embossing!

I love the soft effect it creates. 

I used watercolours to paint around the embossing and stamped over the panel with a little stamp from the Dotty Daisy stamp set from Stampendous.

The greeting is a die cut made with Penny black creative dies.

I am planning to make these cards in a series of colours for a friend…will keep you posted!

Thanks so much for stopping by…

Good Night!

Embossing with Spellbinder dies

 Ever been frustrated with dies that don't cut properly no matter what you do?!! Or, die cuts that just won't come out of the die without tearing?!

These butterfly dies drove me to my wits' end and I was ready to give up and destash them!
Then I remembered a technique from Online Card Classes which taught us to emboss using dies and then water colour the image.

So here I have two cards that I have made with panels embossed with the troublesome butterfly die from Spellbinders Shapeabilities! It is so easy to do and so beautiful !

For the first card, I did a light watercolour wash around the butterflies in grey, popped on some gemstones and mounted the panel onto a silver card base.
simple and elegant.

For the second card, I water coloured the embossed area as well as around it and again added gemstones and popped it onto a kraft card base.

I am trying these days to make cards without sentiments…just for versatility.

I am also trying to change my style of photographing..what do you think?

Thanks so much for stopping by…

Have a great day!