Stampin' Up! Embossed Trucking Along Christmas Card



 Hey folks!  Welcome to another Christmas card project, one I totally case'd from another demonstrator from Pinterest.  I did swap out dsp and colours so not a total case, but hey!  

This is such a cute card with lots of colours to pack a punch!  Who wouldn't love to get this card?  We made this one recently at our card club and the gals enjoyed it so much.  Wanna know the special touch?  Another borrowed idea from a demo...heat embossing the truck details with Basic Black embossing powder.  Yup!  Totally loving this idea.



We embossed the Basic White layer using the Merry Melody embossing folder and then adhered it to the Old Olive cardbase with Stampin' Seal.  Then a strip of Beary Christmas dsp was glued across the front.  Die cuts using Real Red, Basic White and Stylish Shapes Dies were next.  Next, we stamped the truck full stamp onto a scrap of Basic White and punched it with the coordinating punch for Trucking Along bundle.  To gauge where to place your bundle of gifts, we set the punched truck onto the Basic White circle, and using a pencil, marked where the truck bed would be.  Then moving the truck out of the way, stamp the gifts using Memento.  If your pencil mark is still visible, erase it now.  
Watercolor Pencils were used and then blended with the Blending Pens (my new favourite thing to do!).  One last step for the truck and it's huge!  Using the detailed truck stamp, ink up with Versamark, line up on your red truck and stamp.  Then using Basic Black embossing powder, shake it over the stamped area and flick off any extras.  Make sure you are happy with it before you set it with the heat tool, once it melts, you can't scrape off any booboos.  Heat with Heat tool until powder is melted-it's magical watching it transform from powder to shine.  Now you can pop up the truck onto the white die cut with Stampin' Dimensionals, then adhered to the red layer and finally onto the card front using Stampin' Seal.  The sentiment is stamped using Old Olive onto a scrap of Basic White and cut ends diagonally.  Adhere this to the card front along with a few of the Adhesive Backed Speckled Dots.
The insert has a sentiment and a strip of dsp also.
I absolutely love this technique and can't wait to try it again.

Materials and Measurements:
Old Olive cardbase 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Basic White cardstock 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 (2), scrap for die cut and sentiment
Real Red cardstock scrap for die cut
Beary Christmas dsp 1 1/4 x 4 1/4, scrap for insert
Merry Melody Embossing Folder
Stampin' Cut and Emboss Machine
Heat Tool
Versamark, Memento, Old Olive ink pads
Basic Black Embossing Powder
Adhesive Back Speckled Dots
Stylish Shapes Dies
Trucking Along Bundle
Blender Pens
Stampin' Seal, Stampin' Dimensionals

As always, I appreciate your comments!
Mary Louise



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