The Night After Christmas

Hello Nomad friends.  My man insisted we went ice fishing today.  I am not converted.  I feel my time would have been better spent in my craft room.  The sun was nice.  Walking on water was novel, if a little intimidating.  It was cold!!!!!!  We didn't get any fish!  Hmmmmm....   But when I got home there was happy mail from the UK and I couldn't wait to play with this fun Santa embossing folder.

I'm sharing a few techniques for embossing folders over at Let's Squash It! today and I decided to include this one on stretching your folders. 

I embossed this 10x15cm Father Christmas folder by Craft Stash on a 10 x 20cm piece of card.

Using an embossing tool I extended the lines on the RHS, scoring the ones along the bottom of the wall and the vertical wallpaper lines.  Then I used a black archival ink pad to highlight the embossed lines.  I got some ink on the un-embossed floor so I smeared a few more lines on there to even out the over inking.   Then I coloured with Promarkers and watercoloured with distress inks.

I mounted the embossed coloured panel on a DL base card and added some glitter to Santa's fur trim.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 528
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Unstampabelles February Challenge 108 - Anything Goes