Hi, this card is easy to make but is very eye-catching, mainly because of the effect of dry embossing the mirror card. Mirror card always gives a wonderful shine when you use it, but add
Hi, this card is easy to make but is very eye-catching, mainly because of the effect of dry embossing the mirror card. Mirror card always gives a wonderful shine when you use it, but add some raised texture and it really has a wow factor. The photograph doesn’t quite do it justice, but shiny things are notoriously difficult to get good pictures of.
To Make The Card
Cut a piece of red mirror card 5cm x 17.5cm, and emboss it with a snowflake embossing folder. Take a 5″ x 7″ white blank card and trim the height to 17.5cm. Die cut one of each of the squiggle trees and a reindeer from matt gold card. Lay the embossed panel and the reindeer in position on the card and place the sentiment stamp above the reindeer, to the right of the panel. Take the panel and reindeer off and carefully place the card in a stamp positioning tool. Close the lid to pick up the stamp then swipe the place where it will go with an anti static pad. Stamp the sentiment with a watermark ink pad, then heat emboss with gold embossing powder.
Give the embossing a couple of minutes to cool down then adhere the embossed panel in place. Glue the two trees to the panel side by side and slightly overlapping, then glue the reindeer stag in place below the sentiment and just overlapping the red panel. Be sure to wipe any excess glue off the mirror card before it dries as even clear glue will show up.
As I said it is an easy card to make, but is very attractive. I think it would look equally good if the embossed panel was green mirror card instead of red, in fact there are lots of different colour combinations that you could use. Thank you for visiting, I hope you like the card. All the products used are linked below.
Debbie x
Products Used
- White 5″ x 7″ blank card and envelope
- Red mirror card
- A4 Festive Shades card pack (for the matt gold card)
- Extendable paper trimmer
- Flurry of Snowflakes 3D embossing folder
- Squiggle Christmas Trees die set
- Winter Wonderland die set
- Big Shot die cutting machine
- Essential Festive Sentiments clear stamp set
- Stamp positioning tool
- Anti static pad
- Watermark ink pad
- Gold Rich embossing powder
- Heat gun
- Dries clear glue