CARDtober #1- vellum

Oh wow! Those are amazing cards! Hope I have some time to play with this one tomorrow!

These are beautiful, azcrafty!

Ok - this was definitely out of my wheelhouse but vellum card with embossing and glitter paste, stamped panel inside (backed)

Here is my card. I discovered I do not like working with vellum for card bases, but this is the first time I have dry embossed on it, and that was fun. Thanks for the tip on using copy paper with it.

It does not look like it, but the vellum is a pale pink. I embossed only the top 3rd of the base. I watercolored the image. I had no cardstock to match the flowers so I copic colored the 1st layer of the sentiment strips.

My 3rd panel is a small one on the back where normaly I would stamp "made by" but since I messed up and pushed too hard when making the crease, the vellum cracked. And I did not notice the slight crease of the vellum on the right bottom of the card, SoI will be keeping this one as my sample. Thanks for the challenge!





ETA:  If I were to make this card again, I would still use embossed vellum, but only as a card front. I would restamp the flower image after I water colored it, and The inside image i would stamp in a medium gray color. 

I don’t know if it’s because the vellum in my stash is extremely old (10 years or more), or if it was the embossing folder that I tried first, but even with a piece of type paper or waxed paper buffer, my vellum still tore. I ruined at least six vellum card bases. I finally switched to a small polka dot pattern. It still tore through a tiny bit, but the pattern was small enough that it was less noticeable at least. I’m still trying to figure out what more I want to add to the front, but if anyone is having issues like I did, try an embossing folder with a daintier design.

Gorgeous colouring of your vellum, FurryP .

Here is mine, azcrafty .
CARDtober #1 embossed vellum by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

scrapnnana , the first vellum I found was too flimsy and didn't even survive the folding. Then I struggled because I wanted to use an overall leaf embossing pattern, but the only one I could put my hands on was a 3-D folder and I couldn't even get it to work with one layer of cs, let alone two of vellum and one of paper. I finally gave up on that and decided to use this wheat field folder. Decided to ink the back for "sky" and then put the greeting on the inside of the card. Actually the cutapart I glued in there helped to stablize the card, so I was happy with that.

azcrafty , I tried putting the type paper on both sides, on one side, etc. I also tried waxed paper, since that is what I’ve used in the past. Either my vellum has just gotten too brittle, or it’s too thin, or the design too bold, or just cheap quality, but the tiny swiss dot embossing folder worked well enough. Although the photo doesn’t show it well, I added tiny gems, and Wink of Stella to highlight the ornaments and the lights. It looks nicer in person. I put a blank tree cutout behind the print & cut tree on the front, and another blank tree on the inside back with the sentiment, and it will be a place to sign the card.

What a fun challenge! Everyone's cards came of so beautiful!

So many cool cards. scrapnnana, I am happy you found some vellum and a folder that would work for you. Love the classic look of your card and the little holly corners and those pops of red.

kmage, that rose card is A-MAZE-ING!

justjac your embossed leaves look really rich--the perfect backdrop for those pretty flowers.

Thank you everyone. I love how we all the the same challenge and everyone's card is so different.

azcrafty I just had the pink vellum in my stash from years and years ago.

scrapnnana my vellum was kind of old too. That is probably partly why it cracked when I tried to crease it. The other part would be me forgetting it was vellum and pressing too hard. I had no troubles embossing, though.