Jan 01 2008
A Little Love…
I thought I’d start this year off with a little love! 
Happy New Year everyone! Blessings to you!
It’s pretty cold and snowy here this first day of the year!This design uses a couple of fun heat techniques to warm things up a little …velvet embossing and debossing to add texture to this card design. Keep reading and I’ll share with you how to do them! 
Soul Mates
This design started off with a very simple background of some fun Flair Designs bandana style paper. I loved the red for valentine’s day and those paisleys reminded me of one of my favorite Lizze Anne Designs stamp sets… Jolies Fleurs. Because I wanted to try and incorporate two heat techniques… I kept the rest of the design super simple. To make the heart…I covered a Cosmo Cricket Buck Naked chipboard button heart with Versamark and then added three- four layers of copper embossing powder on top. While the thick layer of embossing powder was still impressionable…I stamped a flower from the set into it and waited for it to cool. A little scrap of black gingham ribbon ties on the heart.
For the black velvet ribbon…I picked up some of this at my local Wal-mart store. This ribbon is approximately two inches wide. I’ve always wanted to try embossing on velvet! It was actually quite easy! It was really difficult to get a good photo of the embossing. Black on black is pretty hard to pick up in a photo. You can see it really well IRL. The light catches it beautifully and it gives a really elegant look. You can click on the side pic to get a better look.
To emboss velvet…all you need is some scratch paper and an iron. Place some paper on the ironing board to protect the surface and then lay your stamp..rubber side up on the board. Place your strip of velvet, good side down on top of the stamp. Cover with some more scratch paper to protect the stamp and iron. With hot iron on a no steam setting…iron the velvet with a firm steady pressure. Be careful not to burn the velvet. When good impression is achieved…move velvet to next area needed to be embossed. Repeat until desired effect is achieved.
Wishing you a wonderful New Year’s Day. Have fun trying out these couple techniques in your own projects. If you do try them out…feel free to leave me a link in the comments section! I’d love to see what you create!
Cornish Heritage Farms Staff Designer Coordinator
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Wishing you a blessed New Years!!!
Thank you for sharing these wonderful techniques! You are SO creative and the card is SO pretty!
Really cool techniques! Thanks for giving us all of the det’s! Happy New Year!
Love the copper embossed heart and the velvet technique-love your blog.
Happy New Year!!
Bev J.
WOW - never knew you could emboss velvet like that! Thanks for sharing! And gorgeous card, as always!
Happy New Year, Julia. Love this project!
Happy New Year, J! Love the embossing!
Such a beautiful card Julia!!! Happy 2008!!!!
Very nice… And a very Happy New Year to you and yours!
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I love this, Julia! I have never heard of the velvet embossing. Thanks to you I’ve already learned something for 2008!
Gorgeous card with wonderful techniques!!! Happy New Year!
Wonderful card, J! LOVE that heart! Very cool!
Wonderful techniques! And such cool paper!
Wow very interesting techniques. Never thought of embossing on ribbon! Bet it looks great in RL.
So wonderful….love it! Happy New Year, Julia!!
Very pretty Julia, Love the embossed ribbon. The copper heart is pretty cool too. Thanks for sharing. Best wishes to you in the New Year.
very cute, love what you have done with the heart!
I love that bandana paper- the card design really highlights it.