Clear & Sheer Class – Day 4 – More Techniques: Embossed Acetate Card

Welcome back! If you’ve been following my recent posts, you know I’ve been having fun with Online Card Classes Clear & Sheer class this week.

This card was made from Day 4 – More Techniques. One of the videos showed how to emboss clear acetate and use die cuts for your sentiment and writing space on the inside of the card. I upped it a notch by adding a vellum intricate die cut to the front, with a bit hanging over the edge. Believe it or not, it was almost harder to photograph this card than it was to make it!

What is it about acetate and vellum cards that makes them so intriguing?!! Just holding this card in my hand makes me smile! The acetate came with the stripes on it and I wanted to see if the embossing showed up any different in the colored area versus the clear. Not really.

Here’s the inside of the card with room to write your note on the back of the butterfly…

And the back has a space for your ‘made by’ signature.

I used some glossy accents for the antennae and put a dollop of pollen on the tips. : ) I also highlighted the edges of the vellum butterfly with Stickles to make them stand out a bit more.

As you can tell, there were plenty of cool ideas in this class to get you jump started – and I didn’t even use half of the techniques covered. I look forward to playing around with acetate and vellum more in the future!

Materials used:

• We R Memory Keepers: Clearly Bold Neon Teal Strips acetate
• Cuttlebug: Organic Flourish Border embossing folder
• Spellbinders: Wonderful Wings dies
• Stamp of Approval: Beautiful World Collection
  • SugarPea Designs: Enchanted Garden stamp set (butterfly)
  • CAS-ual Fridays:  All About YOU stamp set and YOU die
• Tsukineko Brilliance pigment ink – Rocket Red Gold
• Ranger Stickles Tropical Tangerine
• Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents
• American Crafts glitter cardstock: carrot
• Recollections white cardstock
• Simply Defined 2.5″ wide double sided adhesive (“Stacey Tape”) by Scrapbooking Made Simple
• Aleene’s Crystal Clear Tacky Spray
• Tombow Xtreme permanent adhesive

I’m going to enter this card into the following galleries, hops and challenges – You can click on each one for more information:

• Online Card Classes – Clear & Sheer – Day 4 Gallery
• Crop Stop Linky Party #15 Anything Goes

I hope to be back soon with a really amazing interactive card also from this class… if I can get it to work… Please stop by again to see how it turned out!

-D.Ann

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