Very Simply Susan

When teaching stamping classes, embossing techniques never fail to impress. I can remember the first time I saw someone emboss gold on a card and I knew I just had to be able to do that!

Today’s card is taking embossing and using it as a resist technique called Joseph’s Coat. You can find many tutorials online and it is a much easier technique to do than it looks.  Basically you take a plain piece of white card stock and sponge colors on all over the card stock. It doesn’t matter where you put the color as long as you are “messy” with it and have a mix of colors all over the paper.

Then, you stamp your images with Versa Mark all over the messy card stock and emboss your stamped images with Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder. Once you have embossed your stamped images, you pick a dark color stamp pad and drag it over your embossed designs. It will look awful! But let the ink dry a bit and then take a paper towel and gently clean up the embossed designs. And viola! The gorgeous color underneath begins to show!  I used Night of Navy.

I had to add some sparkle to this card, so I took a scrap of the Metallic Mesh Ribbon and colored it with a Bermuda Bay Stampin’ Blend. It gave the ribbon just the right amount of sparkly color. Then I added a few Costal Cabana rhinestones from the Holiday Rhinestone pack and a bit of frayed gold cord from the Forever Greenery Combo pack. You can’t tell from the picture, but I also brushed some Wink of Stella over the embossing to give it some more sparkle.

I also did the technique for the sentiment. But for that, I sponged down plenty of Daffodil Delight and embossed the sentiment with Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder and spread a light coat of Granny Apple Green over it. A fussy cut shell was also done and added as an embellishment along with the ribbons.

I have to say, the Joseph’s coat technique is a lot of fun! Try it, you will love it.

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Today’s card is all about  monochrome colors combined with natural elements, both of which work well for fall cards. I saw the Acorn paper from Gilded Autumn and I wanted to do something with a woodsy look and a harvest theme. Because the card was so monochromatic, I used a lot of texture in the die cuts and the embellishments to give the card its interest. Dark brown accents in the ribbon and the stamped sentiment gave the design a little punch. It was a simple card to put together and perfect for sending a harvest themed card.

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For today’s card, I needed a little inspiration and the card sketch at Case This Sketch #390 was just the thing. I had seen this sketch on another blog and loved the layout.  I wanted to make it a harvest theme card and some of the new 2020-2022 In Colors helped me do just that, I think!  To see more of the fabulous designs using this sketch, just click on the image below.

I wanted to stay true to the sketch, so Forever Fern is always my “go to” for botanical designs. I just love this stamp set. You can work in so many color stories with it. And because there is such a variety of stamps, the layout possibilities are endless. Once I did the background, I thought it needed more. I considered an embossing folder, but I wanted something different. The stitched border die in the Stitched Leaves die was just the thing to give the open space a little texture.

The sentiment is stamped on a strip of Vellum card stock. I am terrible stamping on Vellum, so I use Stazon Black ink. This ink stamps on vellum with no smears every time I use it. I used a sentiment and border from Celebration Tidings stamp set to reinforce the harvest theme.  Then colored it in a bit using Stampin Write markers in the coordinating colors.

I stayed with In Colors and finished off the card with some Cinnamon Cider ribbon and scatted a few Bumble Bee Enamel dots. Layered on a pice of Cinnamon Cider color DSP from the Flowers for Every Season DSP pack set the stamped panel off perfectly.

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