{"id":656,"date":"2014-11-28T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/articles\/embossing-with-dies\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T12:33:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T07:03:17","slug":"embossing-with-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/embossing-with-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Embossing with dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever been frustrated with dies that don&#8217;t cut properly no matter what you do?!! Or, die cuts that just won&#8217;t come out of the die without tearing?!<\/p>\n<p>These butterfly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/craft-supplies\/dies?manufacturer=&amp;stock=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dies<\/a>&nbsp;drove me to my wits&#8217; end and I was ready to give up and destash them!<br \/>\nThen I remembered a technique from Online Card Classes which taught us to emboss using dies and then water colour the image.<\/p>\n<p>So here I have two cards that I have made with panels embossed with the troublesome<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/craft-supplies\/dies?manufacturer=&amp;stock=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;butterfly die&nbsp;<\/a>from Spellbinders Shapeabilities! It is so easy to do and so beautiful !<\/p>\n<p>For the first card, I did a light&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/craft-supplies\/paints?manufacturer=&amp;stock=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watercolour<\/a>&nbsp;wash around the butterflies in grey, popped on some&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/embellishments\/beads-rhinestones?manufacturer=&amp;stock=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gemstones&nbsp;<\/a>and mounted the panel onto a silver&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/craft-supplies\/cards-and-kits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">card base<\/a>.<br \/>\nsimple and elegant.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--WhsNkgZQuU\/VHgAFWSMvaI\/AAAAAAAAH3w\/v6iYtOCNK4U\/s1600\/silver-butterfly.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"silver-butterfly-6961816\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/silver-butterfly-6961816.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"266\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\nFor the second card, I water coloured the embossed area as well as around it and again added gemstones and popped it onto a kraft&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hndmd.com\/craft-supplies\/cards-and-kits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">card base<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/orange-butterfly.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/orange-butterfly.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"266\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\nI am trying these days to make cards without sentiments\u2026just for versatility.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\nI am also trying to change my style of photographing..what do you think?<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\nThanks so much for stopping by\u2026<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\nHave a great day!<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\nParu Mahtani<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever been frustrated with dies that don&#8217;t cut properly no matter what you do?!! Or, die cuts that just won&#8217;t come out of the die without tearing?! These butterfly&nbsp;dies&nbsp;drove me to my wits&#8217; end and I was ready to give up and destash them! Then I remembered a technique from Online Card Classes which taught&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/embossing-with-dies\/\" class=\"button button-primary\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Embossing with dies<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[947,948,815,165,67,918],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations","tag-adhesive-gems","tag-embossing-with-dies","tag-kraft-card","tag-paru-mahtani","tag-parus-perceptions","tag-watercolours"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftadda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}