Snow Much Fun with the Elegant Holly Double Frame by Jean Okimoto

Emboss the Elegant Holly Double Frame and add caroling bunnies from the Snow Much Fun Clear Stamps Set to a holiday card. Detailed Memory Box dies - like the Elegant Holly Double Frame set - create great embossed backgrounds too. Capture the details and textures of the dies by pressure-embossing them on watercolor paper as a quick alternative to dieutting.

Hello, Jean Okimoto here with a review of some basic cardmaking techniques. Let's begin with embossing...

Cut watercolor paper with the 4-¼" Square Basics die. Emboss it with the larger outer frame from the Elegant Holly Double Frame. Here's how I layered everything on the platform of my Platinum machine - die with the cutting edge face-up, diecut watercolor paper, rubber embossing mat, purple embossing plate. Please use the plates, mats and stacking sequence recommended by the manufacturer of your machine.

Attach the embossed frame to a 4-½" x 6-¼" card of textured green cardstock.

Cut watercolor paper (smoother side up) with the 3" Stitched Square Layers die. Stamp the bunnies from the Snow Much Fun set with Pinecone VersaFine Clair. Quickly emboss it with detail clear powder.

Scribble watercolor pencils onto a scrap of cardstock and use it as a palette to color the stamped image.

Stamp the greeting - also from the Snow Much Fun Set - on the smoother side of watercolor paper with Tulip Red VersaFine Clair. Emboss it with detail clear powder. Cut the cooled greeting with the 1-½" Stitched Square Layers die.

Cut a holly sprig from the frame set from yellow-green cardstock.

Assemble the card - use foam dots for the left edge of the greeting square. Add green gem stickers.

Embossing watercolor paper - or heavy cardstock - creates subtle backgrounds that won't compete with stamped images. It's quick and easy too!

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