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Monday, 8 February 2021

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

Joining the fun at
Christmas Kickstart Challenge 47 - Slimline
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 528
Scrap the Rainbow - Rødt/Rosa
Unstampabelles February Challenge 108 - Anything Goes



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7 comments:

  1. Linda W. (ScrappinBari)9 February 2021 at 05:14

    What a fun scene, Gail - such a great embossing folder to have!! Sorry you didn't enjoy ice fish - not my cup of tea either but a lot of people love it here in Minnesota.

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  2. Dotty Jo9 February 2021 at 18:33

    What a fun way to use that EF and to extend it! I tried to extend a folder earlier and failed miserably! Better luck with attempt #2, I hope. Thanks for playing at Christmas Kickstart, Jo x

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  3. Arlene9 February 2021 at 20:55

    I would never have known it was a folder that you used and colored. Very cute. So glad you joined us at Christmas Kickstart Challenge, Elf- Arlene

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  4. papierelle10 February 2021 at 11:28

    Very funny card. Love it!!!

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  5. Dale Tiernan13 February 2021 at 04:32

    Santa deserves to put his feet up. Interesting technique.
    Thanks for sharing your project at Unstampabelles.

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  6. Susan Hogan18 February 2021 at 01:44

    Love a good idea. Great technique advise. Thanks for playing along again this month at Unstampabelles.

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  7. frommycraftroom20 February 2021 at 08:00

    What a great technique. Thanks for sharing again with us at Unstampabelles.

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