Dry Embossed Backgrounds

 Hey Everybody,

I'm back again with another way to add a background to your cards.  This time we're going to look at embossing for your background.

Here is the first card.

I used a piece of watercolor paper that my granddaughter made and dry embossed it. I added the glimmer washi tape to the watercolor panel. I put washi tape on white cardstock then punched it out with the two heart punches. I stamped the sentiment and fussy cut it. I added the hearts to the card with adhesive and the sentiment with dimensionals.

I think the dry embossing adds so much texture to this background. This card was for a sketch challenge. It was an easy sketch to do.  I covered pieces of white paper with the glimmer washi tape then punched out the hearts for my card.

Sabrina's challenge was to use black.

                                       

I added ink to the debossed side of the white paper. Then I used direct to paper and dragged my black ink pad across the design until I was satisfied with the color. Lastly, I added my sentiment. This will be used for a BRAK birthday for next month!  The dry embossing on this background is the star of the show. That's why I added just a sentiment and no other image.

 I chose to do a card using the Blackout Embossing technique. The tutorial can be found here. 

On this card I've done dry embossing and stenciling. Notice that the stenciling isn't on the whole card, and it's not the same intensity. It fades in and out. That provides more interest. Behind the stenciled image panel I've dry embossing with jungle leaves to add to the parrots on the card.

On this next card, I've used designer series paper and dry embossed with tiny leaves that almost match the flowers in the paper.

This last card shows how I stenciled a part of the stencil onto the background with versamark ink, then used gold embossing powder to heat emboss my background.  The stencil is similar to fish scales and really shows up well heat embossing in gold embossing powder.

Once again you can see how using stenciling or dry embossing on a background shows off your card. It also allows you to just add a sentiment if you want to. You don't always have to have an image on your card front.

Think about the embossing folders you have. How can they add to a card front ?  Pick one from your stash. What can you pair it with? Will you add an image, just a sentiment or designer paper?

It's a simple way to make a background to go with your cards. I hope you give it a try.

Blessings,

Sue