...fashionably late!

I spent so much time embossing everything in sight yesterday that I didn't leave myself enough time to make a card!!! Today I managed to finish one that I started yesterday!!

And so, I am fashionably late for the party, just squeezing this card in before we wind down our Spellbinders party!

If you haven't seen them already, off you go to visit Sandie, Lynn, Jennifer, Belinda and Laurie!

I was impressed by the embossing capabilities of the Grand Calibur, so much so that I got a little carried away, ribbons, string, skinny twigs, all got passed through the GC yesterday...and then I had an idea!!!

Stitching!!! I LOVE stitching, I love the look of it, but I also love the texture!! I thought I would try my hand at embossing stitches!!

I have a fairly cool sewing machine, I was a quilter before I made cards and there are some pretty fancy stitches on my machine. I ran out some straight lines of a little leaf pattern stitch and passed it through the GC. Fabby!

What I got was a lovely homespun texture!! You can see the actual stitching on he left and the embossed texture on the right. Here's a tip - if you fancy trying this, do your stitching on as thin a piece of paper as you can, that way they can't 'hide' in the paper when you are trying to emboss the onto a piece of thicker cardstock.


I got the sponges out...lol, and tried sponging the front...


and then the back...cool! two looks for the effort of one. I chose to use a circle of the front texture on my card above, I trimmed it out with a circle nestie (Spellbinders classic circles small). As the plates are so big on this machine, I trimmed out the lacy circle mat and the little sun shape at the same time. (Sun shape is the smallest circle in the lacy circles set)


I added the little paper pieced tree and birdie from Teeny trees. I grounded the image by adding a string landscape, these are held in position on the front with two tiny pieces of extra sticky double sided tape. A Lacey circles mat and a piece of patterned paper (Cosmo Cricket Togetherness pad) cut into a square mat complete the front section.


Then I made a string background texture for the background panel - I laid out some strips of the same string in lines across the base plate of the GC. Then I laid a sheet of card over, added the tan mat and embossing plate and fed it through the GC.


I liked being able to custom make a nice subtle texture to suit my card!


Hope it tickles!!!

I do hope you have enjoyed our little party, I'm still catching up - I've been embossing all day!

Don't forget -

• We will be drawing a random shopper from the 3 day party period to win their basket for free! I will announce the winner tomorrow as the deadline is midnight tonight!! (my time, check the clock on the sidebar!)

• If you've been leaving comments on the DT blogs (party posts) you are in with a chance to win one of the 3 comment prizes!!

• Also, tomorrow we will invite all you folks to CASE a card/project from the 3 days. You will have one week to link your entries to the WMS blog post (which I will post tomorrow, Monday) and then we'll pick a random winner for a prize. You may enter as many times as you like. One random winner will receive a set of Grand Nestabilities Dies - Grand Labels 4 and a set of stamps of their choice!

Thanks for coming to our party!!!