When I read Beth’s Savvy Saturday post on embossing…well, you know I had to play with foil and not just any foil! I love the colors that Spellbindersâ„¢ offers in their Premium Craft Foil products. So time to play with the Wizardâ„¢ and emboss some foil!

Today, I am using F-003 Blue Premium Craft Foil and some metal words - I know some of you have these metal word embellishments around. You can use them over and over again when you emboss them. It’s a great way to accent your layouts, cards or mixed media projects. The best part, it saves you money!

Since this is graduation season, we had two in our household! I created a layout celebrating my youngest’s sixth grade ceremony. The words I had fit the occasion so I embossed them with the Blue Premium Craft Foil (blue is their school color) and then sanded them to show more detail. I cut/embossed fonts in foil because I love the look! Then I added the S7-013 Heirloom Scroll Borderabilities® Grand Die Template to accent the bottom and give weight to the layout. Using pattern paper from My Mind’s Eye 29th Market Collection and cardstock from Core’dinations ColorCore Line, I edged the papers with Clearsnap Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink Chestnut Roan. Everything seemed to come together to make a memorable layout for graduation!

Happy embossing and for those of you who are graduating this year…Happy Graduation and Congratulations!!

MargieH

Wow, great ideas, Margie!  That was just the help I needed to finish this layout of my son’s first 5K race this past weekend.

I gathered my supplies and got busy.  Included are my Spellbinders’ Die Templates: S5-015 Large Deckled Mega Rectangle #5, S3-149 Double Ended Tags #3, and S7-013 Heirloom Scroll Borderabilities Grand,  as well as JustRite Stampers’ Harmony Rectangle Stamper Set and Times New Roman 50pt Font, Core’dinations Core Color and Whitewash Cardstock, My Mind’s Eye’s Free Bird “My Friend” Bonded paper,  Creative Impressions brads, Clearsnap Colorbox Fluid Chalk ink, some plastic netting, sandpaper, and a variety of fonts and sticker numbers.  Yes, I used Spellbinder’s fonts that are no longer available, but I justify it this way: you probably have some kind of font dies, or letter stickers or chipboard that will do exactly the same thing.  Let me show you!

First I cut/embossed the Core’dinations Whitewash cardstock with the S5-015 Large Deckled Mega Rectangle.  Then I cut the numbers and letters I needed from the fonts.  I stuck the fonts and stickers on a piece of scrap paper, then embossed that sheet into the Large Deckled Mega Rectangle die cut.  See, it doesn’t matter what color they are, and the more variety the better!

I sanded the raised areas to reveal the colored core of the paper.

Next I embossed the plastic netting just like Margie did here. The results differ depending on which side of the Core’dinations paper you choose to sand. The Whitewash shows a subtle diamond pattern, and the Core Color appears as dots. That’s 2 textures from 1 item!

I cut/embossed the S7-013 Heirloom Scroll Borderabilities Grand and the largest of the S3-149 Double Ended Tags set and sanded the embossed areas.  I spelled out and stamped the words with JustRite Stampers Harmony Rectangle Stamper Set and Times New Roman 50pt Font and Clearsnap Colorbox Charcoal Fluid Chalk ink.

I assembled the layout on the My Mind’s Eye Free Bird “My Friend” Bonded Paper.   I sanded and crumpled the edges a little bit.

Keep on embossing!
Beth

…say THAT 10 times fast…

We are celebrating National Scrapbooking Day today by sharing some of our projects that feature our Grand 12″ Borderabilities (a scrapbooker’s favorite). Let’s get right so some inspirational layouts.

Let’s begin with a traditional use of the Daisy Borderability. Cathy Chlebana cut/embossed and stenciled with gel pens to add a border to her page.

Another layout, this one by Jeni Caulkins, shows what you can do to a any Borderability with a little color washing. Jenis page features the Rose Borderability.

I love this next idea…Beth, my blogging partner in crime, used the Daisy Borderability back-to-back to create a stunning embellishment for this piece. You can see a tutorial on how to create it here.

Have you ever thought of using a border…not along a border. Check out this layout by Jennifer Ellefson. She used her Heirloom Scroll border in the middle of the page. It’s perfect.

Wendy Weixler used yet another technique. Not only did she cut/emboss and stencil her Wisteria long border but she also inked through the die right onto the page (that shows some bravery, for sure).

Thanks, Ladies, for sharing your art with us all. Later (when I can recover the pics on my 16 Gig card OR find a USB cable that fits my camera…ugh), I’ll share with you how to use the Grand Cut Mat Kit…