And now, a guy card

Hello crafty friends.

I want to share a card I just made.

A guy card.

You know, the kind that are really hard to make?

Yeah, those.

Check it:

 Oh look, snark on the inside:

 Here's a much better picture to show the shininess of the heat embossing:

So this is the crazy thing I did for this card: I first embossed the main panel using the 

timepiece embossing folder. Then I carefully (but not even remotely so) inked the raised

image with Versamark ink, and heat embossed in copper. 

BUT FIRST, I had to take a teeny tiny paintbrush and painstakingly brush out

all the powder that covered most of every place else. And yes I used an embossing bag first.

 Did I mention painstaking?

I think I was brushing off powder for at least 30 to 40 minutes before I was able

to finally heat emboss it. And I didn't get every. single. bit., but it looks

a heck of a lot better from it's original appearance.

The things we do for our craft.

(Oh, and if you thought that was crazy, may I just add that I made two panels!)

That will be a card for another post, though.

Anyhoo, I found some copper colored card stock that matched pretty well so I cut it

to the sizes I needed, stamped my sentiments, adhered the panels and called this card done.

Now, it's time for me to go and make more stuff in my craft room.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you have a great rest of the day!

I'd like to enter this card at:

The Male Room #71 - use metal

Seize the Birthday - ATG

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Issues - Ahh Real Birthday Sentiments, Freaking Sentiments

Ink: VersaMark; Memento - Tuxedo Black; Brilliance - Cosmic Copper

CS: Taylored Expressions; scrap

Accessories: GC; Sizzix/TH - Pocket Watch EF; Stampendous - Detail Copper EP; heat gun;

tiny bristled paintbrush; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Thin 3D foam squares