I'm late to the IC challenge today as I was at my grandnephews 6th b'day party - but I was inspired by Audrie's challenge - For the Love of Letterpress. I have used my embossing folders before to achieve a 'letterpress likeness' (as well as imitating Belleek) - and was excited to try it again!
As I flipped through my embossing folders - this Tall Pines one from Tim Holtz caught my eye as I'm always trying to get my Christmas cards done early so I can enjoy the holiday! So then I went looking through my stamps and found my O Holy Night set from Papertrey Ink.
Even though a true letterpress (I think) should have the color on the recessed image - I liked the trees when I inked the front of the folder (with Antique Linen Distress Ink) so the background was slightly colored and the trees were raised and un-inked - so that is how I made my card today. Like this card in Audrie's pinterest gallery.
So thank you again, for inspiring me today Audrie! I ended up making 6 cards similar to this - some without inking the embossing folder at all - and using a few different sentiments from the O Holy Night stamp set.
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Sun, Sep 11, 2016 @ 8:48 AM
Lovely! I really like the soft shading around the embossing, it adds a dreamy, peaceful feel to card and pairs beautifully with the sentiment! Congrats on being a CAS fav of the week!
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Sun, Sep 11, 2016 @ 4:19 PM
This is beautiful!! Wow - great Christmas card, to make anyone's Christmas Merry and Bright.
------------------------------ Jan 'Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ'. Philippians 1:6
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