January Swap Card--Valentine!

For our January swap, we were to choose something from the new Occasions catalog or the Sale-a-Bration catalog.  I decided to make Valentines!

                                                 

 

I don't know if you can see it in the picture, but I used the Real Red Glitter embossing powder that carried over from the Holiday catalog.  I made several of the hearts and was really disappointed in how they were looking.  It was the first time I had used the glitter embossing powder and just wasn't happy.  I do a LOT of embossing ( I make thank you tags for my daughter-in-law's business) and so I looked at my Versamark pad and thought "maybe it needs to be re-inked".  Well, that solved the problem!  It just needed more Versamark to make the glitter powder stick better!  Unfortunately I forgot to take photos of those cards and just have the cards that didn't emboss well.  Oh, well.  

In my instructions (available here), I give some tips on how you can emboss the image without the glitter embossing powder or even the retired real red embossing powder!  Make sure you check that out!  You can emboss in any color without colored embossing powder!

I'm going to be sending out some of these Valentines that remain and add some additional embellishments (the Sending Love embellishments--those cute wooden elements--142735)

 

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