We are onto the next letter of our Alphabet Challenge – D is for Dry Embossing. I absolutely love to dry emboss on my cards because it adds wonderful texture. In the new Annual Catalog, the brand new Old World Paper embossing folder added just the vintage look I was looking for to make this Father’s Day card with the great Beautiful World bundle. Add some nautical touches and my husband will truly be happy with this card.
My secrets to making this Quiet Meadow project
- This A6 sized card started with Mossy Meadow cardstock, cut at 9″ and 6 1/4″ then scored at 4 1/2″
- Oh, how I love this new suite of products!! There was a little glitch at preorder time, so I wasn’t able to get the coordinating designer paper for Beautiful World. But, no worries! I just ordered the Memories & More cards instead. I chose the map design, ran it through the Old World Paper embossing folder for the background. Then, I cut the new Brass Foil sheets to layer underneath. This foil is going to be my new favorite!
- I made the decision to “weather” everything up with a light sponging, so I added some to the edges as well as across some of the textured areas of the embossed map paper.
- I inked up the lighthouse and sail boat (from Sailing Home) with Soft Suede ink and cropped them out with their coordinating dies. Then, the new sentiment in Beautiful World was inked in Mossy Meadow and cropped out with one of the stitched circle dies. These were also sponged lightly.
- The circle needed to be anchored onto something, right? I cut up more of the Memories & More cards. More sponging, of course! These were added to the map layer with adhesive.
Here’s the Little Details!
- Now, for the little details! The new Gold Hoops are fantastic and, to my surprise, look even better on the Brass Foil than Gold Foil! I tied two strands of linen thread, centered the hoop over the sentiment and secured the linen thread to the back. Once this was done, I was able to adhere all of my layers to the card base.
- Almost there! I wanted to add the cute little slider, so I threaded it with the Braided Burlap Trim, frayed the edges and secured it under the sentiment with glue dots.
- The Finishing Touch was adding the antiqued corners to the brass foil sheets with glue.
INSIDE: I cut more Brass Foil and Whisper White cardstock to fit inside the card. The sentiment from the retired Guy Greetings stamp set as well as the sail boat and seagulls were added for a simple design but one that my husband will truly love.
WORLD of GOOD
Preserve your worldwide adventures with travel patterns
and brass accents. The coordinating Memories & More
Card Pack makes memory keeping simple.
I’m sharing my card with these challenges:
- Creative Craft Cottage Challenge: Make It Masculine
- Penny Black & More Challenge: Men & Boys
- Shopping Our Stash Challenge: Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
- Watercooler Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes with a Masculine Twist
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this card is fabulous, teamie!
hugs and kisses from Germany
silvi
WOW! I love the vintage masculine feel of this card! The monochromatic color palette and the metal accents really complement each other – truly a beautiful project!
Rachelle : )
This card is great! I love the buckle that accentuates the sentiment and the frayed twine. And that you chose Mossy Meadow as the base instead of brown.Just a hit of shine with the first layer, too. He’s going to love it!!!
Oh Debbie, this card is just gorgeous !
I would love to make it but don’t y the tools
YET.
Debbie, this card is a stunning showcase of two wonderful masculine stamp sets. And with details galore! You make me want to put down my latest project and play with my new goodies that have been put aside temporarily. Off to pin, Sis!!
That’s a lovely background for your images and I do love that sentiment. I’m sure your husband will love it. I hope you are both still safe and well. Love Dawn x
A lovely Father’s Day card and perfect for our theme this month of men and boys, many thanks for joining us at Penny Black and More Challenges this month xxxx
beautiful!!!! THX..
Lovely card!
Thanks for travelling with the crew from SHOPPING OUR STASH!!
What a really super nautical themed masculine card in the neutral tones, many thanks for sharing and joining in with our ‘Men and Boys’ theme at Penny Black and More challenge.
B x
Beautiful card. Thank you for joining us at Creative Craft Cottage challenge good luck. Have a nice day
Anneke DT
Such a gorgeous masculine card, Debbie! I love how you used the hoop, embossing folder, and everything about this!
Your cards are lovely. But I LOVE this Beautiful World card! Thanks for sharing it. I love ocean theme and jungle theme especially, so this card really catches me! I just discovered our gallery. WOW!!!
Hi Debbie, I liked your nautical card and wondered how you made the background look scrunchy/wavy was it the embossing folder? As I don’t have the folder, I think I have seen something similar in a tutorial with tissue paper scrunched up wet on card( unless of course I dreamt it – it wouldn’t surprise me haha) thankyou for all your lovely card ideas. Cheers, Marilyn in the UK xx
Hi, Marilyn in the UK!
Thank you for your comment and question! I used the Old World Paper embossing folder and added a little ink to the raised areas for more texture. Any embossing would work, really. I have heard of applying tissue paper and gluing it down! Let me know how that works for you please! I have been tempted to try it myself.