Patterned Papered Dreams

Heat embossing galore with Waffle Flower Crafts

Hello everyone! With the latest Waffle Flower Crafts release it's quite beginning to look a lot like Christmas around my craft room and I just love it. Holiday crafts are my all time favorite! Today I want to share a Christmas card I made using Riverside, Starry Night, and A Homemade Christmas stamp sets, Riverside die set, and also a custom sentiment stamped with Be My Guest stamp set.

 

 

In this card I've combined my love for all things Christmas with my obsession love for heat embossing. The magic that happens when that powder melts still gets me every single time :)

Look at all that shiny happy images!!! Almost everything on this card was heat embossed.

 

 

I started with a 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 cardstock panel. When I'm gonna be heat embossing a lot I know warping is gonna happen, so I work on a separate piece of cardstock and then adhere it to the front of the card for a perfectly flat finished card.

First, I stamped a starry sky using the tiny constelation images on Starry Night. There are three separate constelation images on the set, so I mounted them all on the same clear block and the background was stamped in no time. I heat embossed them in silver.

 

The sentiment comes next. Once again, I went to the Be My Guest set for the perfect custom sentiment for my card and heat embossed it in white.

 

 

Now, for the little scene: I adhered double sided adhesive tape to a piece of cardstock and die cut the river/path from Riverside die set. Once I had my path, I removed the adhesive tape backing and covered the die cut in glitter.

 The trees were also die cut from the Riverside dies. Then, I stamped them with the coordinating images in Riverside stamp set and heat embossed with holographic green and brown powders. These were the first heat embossing powders I purchased when I started stamping 6 years ago and they still work perfectly!!! Can you believe it???

 

 

Finally, I stamped, red-heat embossed and fussy cut the little house from A Homemade Christmas, and adhered it with foam tape. Oh, I also added a subtle hint of smoke coming out of the chimney by just scribbling lightly with a white pencil.

I hope I inspired you to get messy with heat embossing! Thanks for stopping by!

Cutting Edge Blog Hop

Hello, friends! I hope your week is going great so far! Waffle Flower Crafts in one of the sponsors of the Cutting Edge Blog Hop and today I am playing along and sharing two projects I made using WFC dies. Nina designs the cutest and most versatile dies!

My projects feature the adorable Tiny Star die, although there are other dies making a guest appearance too. Let's get started with a card!

 

 

My goal here was proving that a die that fits in the "cutesy" style can be used on a masculine card too.

I die cut the tiny star a gazillion times from kraft cardstock and adhered them to a piece of kraft cardstock. I used two tones of kraft so the die cuts would stand out a bit. The yellow "out of a million" star was heat embossed with a Ranger sparkling gold powder.

The sentiment is from Starry Night stamp set. I used the rectangle from Surface - Tag Die - Scallop Add on to make the banner where I stamped the sentiment.

 

 

Next comes a tag die cut from the Surface - Tag Starter Kit dies. I stamped another sentiment from Starry Night and used a bunch of stars, once again from the Tiny Star die, and once again embossed with the sparkling gold powder I used on the previous card.

 

 

Love the "sugary" look! And can you believe how perfectly that super narrow font stamped and heat embossed? Woot!

 

 

See the hole reinforcer on the tag? I made it with the belt die from Surface - Tag Die - Santa Add-on.

 

 

Just another way to stretch your dies ;)

Thanks for stopping by and happy hopping!

 

A Waffle Flower Christmas set gone spooky

Hi everyone! I'm back and finally catching up with the gorgeous Waffle Flower Crafts August release! It's been a torture having the stamps with me during our whole trip and not being able to stamp, but now we're back home and the torture is over ;)

So yesterday I was looking at A Homemade Christmas stamp set and kept finding something familiar in the shape of the Christmas tree. And suddenly *lightbulb moment* it came to me that it had the shape of Halloween candy corn! Look!

 

 

First, I made a starry background using assorted stars from the set and then it was time to have fun transforming the tree into candy corn. It was easy peasy. Just stamped the tree three times in yellow, three times in orange and three times in white (white embossing powder heat embossed on black cardstock). Then, I fussy cut the trees and assembled the layers back like candy corn sweets.

 

 

I stamped and heat embossed a custom sentiment using Be My Guest stamp set. It's SO easy to align! And you can't beat a cute alphabet set. Such a must have. Oh, and talking about must haves, I just got the Ranger Super Fine Detail embossing powder in white and my, oh my! It picks even the tinier details. Just amazing.

 

 

Before leaving, I also want to share a super easy tag with a more conventional use of the tree. The stars and sentiment are from Starry Night stamp set and the tag was die cut from Surface - Tag Die - Starter Kit.

 

 

That's it from me today, thanks for visiting and have a fab week!