Embossing with Frillie & Funkie!

I was thrilled to see the new challenge about embossing of all types at Frillie and Funkie this month!  I adore embossing, mostly using folders, but I also love my embossing powders.

I am intrigued by alcohol inks, and am determined to explore them more thoroughly this year.  As one of my tags for Linda's Christmas Tags challenge, I used some green and red alcohol inks on a very regular pattern, seen here.  I loved the result!

I am also a fan of luscious design, and own a number of intricate embossing folders, and wanted to try this technique on something without the regular pattern.  I love rich brocade fabric, even though I cannot imagine how to actually use it in anything!   This does remind me of such brocade - but here I turned it into a Thank You card for an old friend who sent me some lovely earrings out of the blue....

I started with Bristol Paper card, and covered this with Ranger's foil tape, without regard for wrinkles, as knew they would work themselves out once I sent it through my Big Shot with an embossing folder.

Next, I applied my alcohol inks in shades of deep pink and various blues - accented with gold fixative, of course!  I let the inks flow and pool...

 and used my heat tool to speed the drying.... it appeared the gold was lost.












I was pleasantly surprised, though, to see it emerge once things had completely dried. Unlike my last make with this technique, I did not sand, although the lighting here sometimes suggests that....

Here are some more detailed shots - I can't help myself as I love all this color and detail, lol!!  Feel free to skip ahead!

In this last photo, you can see that I edged the piece with gold embossing powder (from Ranger)....I did this several times to make it look aged and not as regular as it looked from using the Versamark ink pad along a straight edge which also had a straight margin from the embossing folder, which you can just see on the upper right of the above photo.

Once satisfied with the panel, I applied it to a black card made by folding an 8 x 11 inch piece of black cardstock in half....

and heat embossing once again with the gold powder a stamped "Thank You" from my stash.

I will of course enclose a note, but in the meantime, I am pleased with this card (as I am not a card maker by any means!)

I am entering this into the current Frilly and Funkie Challenge.

Thank you so much for stopping by, and if you've time, please do leave a comment - I love reading them and hearing your thoughts, and am always glad to hear from you!

xxx Lynn