Craft Barn Calendar Challenge #12

Well, the final calendar challenge at the Craft Barn has arrived and the theme this week is 'Embossing'. If you've been here before, you will know that I love embossing of any variety so I was very pleased that this was the chosen theme.

I decided to just start with a coloured background, choose an embossing folder and go from there. I used brass metallic distress stain, distress ink and a quick burst of dylusion ink spray. I wanted to base my page on the textures achieved with embossing rather than a main image. Of course, I couldn't resist adding some stamping here and there with a little machine stitching thrown in for good measure too!

Here's my completed page:

The main page piece was embossed in a texture fade folder. Metallic distress stain was put on the folder and the card was sprayed lightly with dylusion ink and water, dried and then embossed in the inked folder. Distress ink was added to deepen the colour in some areas and walnut distress was used on the edges.

Two pieces of card were die cut for the top and bottom of the page. Each was inked with distress, and stamped with script in the same colour. Machine stitching was added using gold thread  to each piece.
This image gives a clearer view of the effect achieved with metallic distress stain.

Each die cut piece was stamped with a coffee ring image which was embossed with teal enamel (I love this colour!). The scalloped edge and the eyelet holes were embossed with aged gold enamel (another favourite!). Some rings were stamped and embossed onto left over embossed background card. Each ring was cut out, inked and embossed with aged gold on the edges. They were then arranged at the bottom of the calendar page in a scallop design to echo the die cut. Some jute twine was then added as a finishing touch.

This image shows the script stamping, embossed rings and gold embossing on the die cuts. The gold machining can also be clearly seen here too.

I've really enjoyed doing this calendar and apart from the 'felt' theme week, I have enjoyed all the page themes. At some point soon I'll try to take a picture of all the pages together - if I can! Thanks for looking at this busy time and if you've also found time to leave a comment, then I send you an even bigger thank you!