Embossing

Hello and welcome to the newest challenge over at the Alphabet challenge blog, and our newest theme that says "Embossing"" Feel free to use the wet or the dry form of the technique, and show us the results. If you need some inspiration first, please do have a look at what the DT has created for you. I was quite busy in the past weeks, I'm feeling better and trying to catch up with so many things alongside with managing everyday's chores. In the end, I'm putting things aside again, but well, that's life I guess.

However, I managed to prepare some DT inspiration for you, and by doing so, I used some scraps I never thought would come handy. And I think at some point, every crafter has said something like that, righth? 

Since we'd like you to feature embossing on your projects, that's what I was looking for at first. I did find some pretty embossed backgrounds in my stash, but I couldn't come up with how to use them. And I kept coming back to this unusual shade of green, a green that looks like a light emerald. It came in a booklet of embossed papers, and while I love the floral pattern with bugs and insects, I could never, ever wrap myself around the colour itself. How on earth do you create a colour scheme around that one? 

In other news, I'm getting glasses. The signs of aging became obvious a year or two ago, when I was getting new sunglasses, and while doing so, I made an eye test because why not. With a couple of lens adjustments I could suddenly realize that the world around me is much clearer that I thought, but it wasn't a major difference, so I let it be. In the past months, however, I could find myself having trouble focusing on signs, especially when light conditions ween't ideal. Got another eye test, and yup, definitely glasses this time. I picked them out last week and will have another fitting next week. And all this time, my thoughts were circling around that one patterned paper... The one I got ages ago on a crafting workshop. We learned to create explosion boxes, but since I didn't find a chance to use mine, I cut it into pieces. What was left, were squares of glasses-themed papers: pink and green on one side, black and white on the other. And then, I figured: why not try THIS green with THAT green? 

Unfortunately, the green embossed paper was a bit too short to fit on a kraft card base, so I decided to extend it by using another paper scrap: a white embossed paper with swirls, which was already decorated with a punched border. Believe it or not, I only needed to cut it by 4 mm to make it fit. 

I then wanted to use a ribbon to mask the transition between white and green paper before placing the glasses on top of everything. To my disappointment, I couldn't find a ribbon that would fulfill my imagination. I switched to my paper stash again, and amongst the scraps that are too pretty to be thrown away I finally found the missing piece: a strip of paper with roses, which combines all the colours of my card. It comes from a box of napkins, and I kept it for years - literally (and yes, when IÄm looking for napkins for my running nose in winter, I'm definitely thinking about what I could do with the box later on). I'm glad those pretty roses found their place after all. 

Once everything was done, I used a piece of soft pink paper to frame the glasses, trying to create a centerpiece from what was meant to be a background paper. I thibk it doesn't look too bad in the end. I can't help feeling the card would need a bit of bling in form of pearls and/or gemstones, but on the other end, I keep telling myself that flat cards are easier to be shipped. Under the bottom line, I'm torn between whether my card is finished or not, so I will gladly accept your opinions and ideas on the piece.

challenges:

- 613 avenue create: ATG with optional twist "May flowers"

- a place to start: ATG

- allsorts challengeblog: ATG with optional twist "birds, bees and blooms"

- classicdesignchallenge: ATG DT 

- crafty catz: ATG

- crafty gals corner: ATG

- do-all kreatives: ATG

- inkspirational: leftovers (white embossed paper, rose paper, patterned paper with glasses)

- lil patch of crafty friends: ATG handmade

- nachteulen: ATG

- try it on tuesday: in the garden (rose paper, embossed papers with swirls, flowers and bugs)

- unicorn challengeblog: flowers

- vesela hiska: rose

- wortartwednesday: ATG