Tags
butterflies, cards, embossing, embossing powder, heat embossing, Papillon Potpourri, Stampin Up, Versamark
hello – thanks for reading Caro’s Pretty Things 🙂
Today I wanted to show you a really simple card using one stamp and some embossing.
This is simply a piece of Crumb Cake card stock, with a butterfly from the Papillon Potpourri stamp set stamped over the front in Versamark ink, then heat embossed with silver embossing powder.
Tip: when you are making a card with one repeated image, it’s a good idea to stamp some of the images partially off the edge. Â It looks more authentic and just seems to make the pattern “work”. Â Â (You can also use this technique to make your own gift wrap)
The butterflies look so beautiful embossed!
I also have to show you a card that my 4 year old made** – a special card for his grandma’s birthday. Â He did an amazing job!
Although he did a brilliant job for a 4 year old, you can see here that he got some of the versamark ink around the edge of the stamp – which is made more obvious when the embossing powder sticks to it! Â This is a good reminder to press gently when stamping!
Thanks for reading
Caro
** Although Mr 4 did the stamping himself, I held the heat tool with him and we did the embossing together. Â Heat tools and unsupervised 4 year olds don’t mix!!!