I'll bet I'm not alone when I say that watching my friend heat emboss a sentiment on a card over 25 years ago was the impetus to hop in the car and go to the local stamp store to buy some supplies. I still have a couple of the wooden stamps I bought that day, and just replaced my heat gun in May when a friend gave me an Amazon gift card for my birthday. It's been a favorite technique ever since so The Flower Challenge had me looking through the cards I hadn't posted. This card which has already been received by my friend (so can now be shared) has both heat embossing in gold, and dry embossing along the bottom portion of the card.
The beautiful magnolias are from Altenew's "Magnolias for You" set. I embossed them in gold on Bristol and watercolored them with the Altenew 36 pan watercolor set.
I had to fussy cut the flowers and leaves since I don't own the dies, and then arranged them at the top of the white panel. The sentiment, also gold embossed, is from The Greetery's "Sentiment Suite: Birthday" set which gets a lot of use. I decided the card was just too CAS (is that possible?), so added three lines of dry embossing with my stylus on the bottom portion. That was added that to a top folded card in Lovely Lady (PTI.)
I'm in the midst of trying to keep up with two online classes, so crafting time has been at a premium. Today's personal challenge is to get two masculine birthday cards created.
