Sea Shells Embossing folder.

This new sea shells embossing folder by S.U. was part of my gift from my upline. There is a set of stamps and a die that coordinate with this embossing folder. Even  if bought as a bundle it's still pretty pricy, so I haven't purchased them. I thought I'd wait and see how I get on with the embossing folder before deciding to purchase the rest of the suite.

Here are the results of my first playtime. to colour the shells I picked up a little ink on with a wet baby wipe and gently applied the colours to the raised parts of the design.  Once all the shells and seaweed were coloured I lightly brushed blueberry bushel ink around the edges of the card working in towards the middle of the card, taking care not to get too much blue on the shells.

My next experiment was with Vellum.....I think this is a first for me. I am not a fan of the stuff. Especially when its heavily embossed. It warps so  much and it's quite difficult to get it to lay flat again. Another issue I have with it, is the fact adhesives show through.  To combat that on this project I run the coloured vellum through my Xyron 510.  If you are not familiar with Xyron machines, I'll tell you they are kind of like a  small bigshot  (without the platform and plates).   You feed the card into the mouth of the machine and crank the handle, the card is pulled through and the adhesive is applied to your project.

 To colour the vellum I used Copic markers I coloured the reverse of the vellum, flipped it over and added glitter glue to the right side of the vellum and allowed it to dry before assembling the card. If  I am honest I don't really like this card, but it was something I had to try.

My next card was an idea born out of a disaster on another card many years ago. I had some adhesive smears on a project and I tried to remove them with an adhesive remover wipe.  The wipe removed the adhesive well, but it also removed the top gold layer of the card. So for this card, I thought I would use it as a technique. 

 Stazon cleaner does the same too.  In fact, that's what  I used on the card below. I dabbed a little Stazon cleaner onto a piece of kitchen roll and brushed it over the  high spots on the card to remove the gold and reveal the silver layer below. 

Don't rub hard or for too long or the silver layer will come off too and you'll end up  through to the nasty dirty white layer.      This technique will Not work on foil card with a plastic coating.