This card was made for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown Technique Challenge #4-20 (https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/01/j...challenge.html) which challenged you to make a Christmas card using the "embossed impressions" technique. There is a great video tutorial by Jennifer McGuire on this versatile technique at .
I used a dark navy cardstock and silver embossing powder to create my multiple snowflakes with the Stampin' Up! (SU) "Swirly Snowflakes" dies. The die is three snowflakes, so I had to ink up the die with Versamark and run it through my Big Shot die cutting machine twice. I dusted the impressions, swiped off the excess, and heat embossed the first set before doing the second set.
The blue panel was matted with a silver mylar layer using the SU "Rectangle Stitched" dies. Because the mylar is stretchy, I had to hand cut the outside edges of the die-cut image because the die wouldn't cut through the mylar. If you use silver cardstock you shouldn't have this problem.
Because metallic surfaces seem to attract glue no matter how careful you are, I used strong Scor-Tape to adhere the embossed blue panel to the silver mylar matting. You can use glue, but the chances of smearing the metallic surface are almost 100%.
The sentiment is from the beautiful SU "Merry Christmas To All" stamp set. I heat embossed it on white cardstock, then die cut with one of the dies from the same stitched rectangles die set. I wanted to mat it with silver as well, but found that none of the set's dies matched this small rectangle shape, so I used a larger long rectangle die from the set to die-cut one side of the box by not running it through the Big Shot all the way, then switching the die around to the other side and matching the stitches to the previous cutting, and running it through half way again. You can also do this by letting one side of your die hang beyond the edge of your cutting plate where you don't want it to cut.
I cut a narrow strip of silver mylar and attached it down the center of the card using Scor-Tape.
The white sentiment piece was adhered with Scor-Tape again, then a piece of dark blue craft foam was glued to the back to give the card some dimension, and then glued to the front.
A final touch was to use small rhinestones in the center of each snowflake. The entire finished panel was then glued to the navy card base.
I am rating the difficulty of this card as a "3" out of a possible "5". If you have just the right size rectangle dies for the sentiment, and you use silver cardstock instead of mylar, I would rate it a "2". The embossed impressions technique is very easy. If you miss any stray heat embossing powder, I've found that a light touch with an electric eraser does wonders!
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