Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Good evening everyone - I hope you are managing to stay dry. Today I have another couple of photos for you of the cards I am preparing for my demo; The first 2 were created to show 2 things. One - how to use ink with your embossing folders &  Two - cutting p the embossed card rather than using a whole sheet. I sill have to put a greeting on these & some embellishment. On this card I simply embossed black card & then covered it with gold gilding wax. I wanted an "old" or vintage look - so I wasn't gentle or sparing with it I added a gold ribbon & knotted bow at the side & gilded a small piece of card from which I die cut the "seasons greeting". Made another complete card today & some small prepared pieces to work with later. More tomorrow - bye for now.

Good afternoon everyone. Once again I had not realised that several days have gone by since I last posted on here. So therefore I must offer my apologies. I have been rather busy sorting out items for a demo I am taking part in.  My subject is embossing folders, stencils & dies. I have tried to think of different ways to use these items, whether separately or in a combination, & to make samples to show.  Then of course to prepare some card ready to do a practical demo on the day. So far I have ............  well let me show you some of them; Embossing with a plastic stencil - then inking the design through the stencil. With a die-cut greeting added.  A technique I spotted a couple of years back A die-cut (or hand-cut) design glued to a background paper, then the whole design is run through an embossing folder. A scenic embossing folder - embossed onto white card, then again on black card. The black design then has the backgr...