Shiny Slimline card for Sunday aka Evergreen Forest #3

Or should I say Wrapped in Christmas with Evergreen Forest  #3... though I don't think these photos do this card justice....

Now the main feature of this card was actually a bit of a mistake! I wanted to highlight the front trees... and decide that my trusty Wink of Stella glitter pen was the tool for the job...

But it hadn't been used for a long while... and so it was running a bit dry... so I gave it a good squeeze... and out loads popped straight onto my embossed panel!! So I swooshed it all around (just using the Winkie brush tip) and out those 3 front trees popped! Amazing!

And finished off with a few of the new Adhesive Backed Snowflakes ...

All set on a Slimline Card... which are "all the rage" at the moment....

This used to be called an A6L card (or A6 long in full) back in the day... Two from a piece of A4 card ... just in the other orientation!  Cut your A4 card in half (ie Landscape at 14.8cm) and then score in half (ie Portrait at 7.4cm)

And before I go... I do have to note the amount of experimentation I seem to be doing nowadays...

(Very sadly) Gone are the days of creating projects for and running face to face classes... so I can afford the time to just play... try things out... and for things to go wrong... as indeed they do!

And as I always say... we actually learn a lot more from our mistakes than we do from getting everything "right" all the time... which is my excuse for sharing all my mistakes with you....

Or as my (or rather Joseph Chilton Pearce's) favourite craft saying says...

Just SO true!

And here are the full Evergreen Forest  with Wrapped in Christmas trio... though rest assured I haven't put the embossing folder away yet... 

Scroll back 2 days/posts for the other two...

Simple on Saturday - Evergreen Forest #2

Think I should call this the Double Inked Embossing technique (oh dear that's DIE for short!)

Another simple card with amazing textural relief... albeit such a flat card...

This time I inked up the raised trees on the back face of the Evergreen Forest embossing folder with the Gray Granite ink pad....

Then I cleaned off any ink off the top flat part of the back face - with just a tissue...

And then I inked up the top flat part using Mist Moonlight ink and a Sponge right at the top and then a Finger Dauber around and in the tree line...

Then I embossed my piece of card...

You can then neaten off as desired using the sponge and or dauber... I just had a part between a couple of the trees that was still white... so I quickly applied a bit of ink using the side of the dauber...

And a hand cut snow bank to finish... again stamped with another lovely greeting from Wrapped in Christmas

But part of the experiment went wrong with the snow bank... though you may not be able to see in the photos...

I daubed the top of the snow bank with Gray Granite... as that added some extra definition... So all good so far...

And then I applied some Shimmery Crystal Effects... which then dried... well a sad glossy grey! So a bit of extra definition but not so nice to my eye! Think I should have used a pale blue instead to make it warmer... Any of Seaside Spray, Balmy Blue or Pool Party would have worked...

Friday Forest...

Many people appear to have overlooked this little gem of an embossing folder in the new Autumn Winter mini catalogue... so I thought it high time to highlight it...

So introducing the Evergreen Forest embossing folder... and the start of a series of experiments... Maybe even a series of series... is that a serii!!!?

Although you probably can't tell from these photos... this card has such texture care of the inked embossing... just love it... and not even any 3D foam Stampin Dimensionals in sight.... 

This is created by a simple inking up of the embossing folder... just dragging a Gray Granite ink pad over the raised ( back) face of the folder... with the flat part at the top being inked as well as the raised trees... And then embossing a piece of card..

Though not a perfect make as I ended up with a random sky pattern... which my eyes needed covering when making up a card... hence the circular embellishment to the top right...

Finished off with a snow bank (hand cut or die cut using the Coming Home bundle)

 

 Which I have then stamped with another greeting from the fabulous Wrapped in Christmas stamp set (think this may be my all time favourite christmas greeting set!)

And here are a couple more makes using the Evergreen Forest embossing folder... too nice not to share as well...