Sanded Heart Embossed Card with Love Heart Character

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Create a textured love card by embossing a heart pattern, extending the design using the folder's hinge gap, then sanding back the raised areas for a distressed effect. Layer a Cookie character inside a die-cut heart shape for a charming dimensional focal point.

You will need

100572 - HTCN - Avago-ink Designs - A5 Stamp - Cookie - 100522CSEE IT Stamps By Me - Premium Hybrid Ink - Midnight - 121022NSEE IT

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Step by step

1. Place textured cardstock into the Love Hearts embossing folder, ensuring it lines up with the hinge opening at the top. ▶ watch 23:00
2. Run the folder through your embossing machine to create raised heart details. ▶ watch 24:15
3. Feed the embossed card back through the folder's hinge gap, aligning the design to continue the heart pattern across a larger piece of cardstock. ▶ watch 24:45
4. Run the extended panel through the machine again to emboss the additional section seamlessly. ▶ watch 25:15
5. Mount the embossed panel onto black cardstock to create a border and add contrast. ▶ watch 26:00
6. Using a decorative sanding sponge, gently sand the tops of the raised hearts with circular motions to create a distressed, grungy texture. ▶ watch 26:30
7. Stamp 'Congratulations' vertically down the right edge of the card base using black ink. ▶ watch 28:00
8. Glue the embossed and sanded panel onto the card base, positioning it towards the bottom. ▶ watch 29:30
9. Trim the top of the mounted panel level with the card edge using a paper trimmer. ▶ watch 30:30
10. Die-cut one large and one small heart from red textured cardstock. ▶ watch 31:30
11. Stamp the Cookie character onto white cardstock and position her head within the large heart shape outline. ▶ watch 32:30
12. Carefully cut out the character, ensuring her head aligns with the top of the heart shape. ▶ watch 33:30
13. Mount the large red heart and character onto black cardstock, then cut around both with a small border. ▶ watch 34:45
14. Repeat the mounting and border process for the smaller heart. ▶ watch 35:30
15. Attach the large heart with character to the card using foam pads for dimension, positioning it off-centre to break up the panel. ▶ watch 36:45
16. Layer the smaller heart onto the card using another foam pad to add further depth. ▶ watch 37:15

Tips from the show

• A decorative sanding sponge from a local decoration store is gentler than sandpaper and won't rip cardstock.
• The hinge gap on the embossing folder allows you to extend designs beyond the folder's fixed size by re-feeding and realigning the pattern.
• If your printer alignment is slightly off when stamping the character, use a black pen or Sharpie to fill in any white gaps before cutting out.

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