Emboss It - With the Craft Room

Hello - well there were lots and lots of entries for the "ink it up" the Craft Room's last challenge - ....is going to have a difficult job selecting her top 3.  This fortnight's challenge is set by my fellow design team member ...Esther and she asked us to:-

"Emboss It"

Dry or Heat Embossing

We have a great sponsor again so there is a great prize.  Stamp Addicts

A few weeks ago I ran a workshop at the Cubby Hole where Nigel provided us with a number of fantastic stationery boxes.  They were really sturdy with a magnetic opening.  They were also the perfect size to hold distress ink pads and the Aidornack inks pads (these pictures will be blogged at a later date).  The emphasis of the workshop was altering chipboard etc - I started out as a scrapbooker and as such have a large amount of chipboard pieces.  I used a combination of dry and heat embossing to decorate my boxes.  Each person who attended the workshop left with 3 altered storage boxes.

I ran some of the elements through the Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots folder, followed by a coat of acrylic paint and then overstamped with Versamark before embossing with gold embossing powder.  The box was covered with some beautiful 7 Gypsies paper which I too dry embossed in places (Swiss Dots and Harlequin).  Some of these sections were then swiped over with Versamark and then heat embossed with a mixture of gold and claret embossing papers.  This I hope added further interest and texture to the patterned paper.

I do have other samples of the boxes that I made for the workshop and even though these are examples of embossing I won't overload you now with these.  

I hope you get chance to visit us all at the Craft Room Challenge and check out my fellow DT friends wonderful craft!

I would like to enter my altered storage box into the following challenges:-

Craft Your Passion - "lots of texture"

Come & Get It Challenges - "anything but a card"

Crafty Mess Challenges - "distressing & embossing"

Suzanne ~x~