Vintage embossing with Nature Walk

I'm having another vintage moment today! No, I'm not wearing my nightdress under my clothes (a recurring nightmare of mine!) - instead I'm referring to this week's Make My Monday where the challenge is to make a vintage card using an embossing technique. Oh I do love a bit of embossing! Come and see what I've come up with:

Nature Walk is never very far from my desk and this is the bird from that set. I stamped him in Early Espresso ink and clear-embossed him and he's looking unusually important today - you'll notice he's wearing the crown from Tiny Tags! And if we zoom in...

... you'll see the crown is pretty darned golden too thanks to my gold embossing powder! The Baja Breeze backdrop to his royal birdiness has been decorated with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, which I cut into this lovely shape with the Top Note die. I mounted that onto some of the Newsprint designer paper which I'd torn and sponged round the edges with Crumb Cake ink. Oh and look at those gorgeous leaf sprays!  - they're made with the Little Leaves Sisslits die. This die and the embossing folder are exclusive to Stampin' Up, along with loads of others - have a look at pages 7-10 in the mini catalogue (on my side bar) to check them out.

There's a circular tab on one side with two eyelets set into it - one to take my BajaBreeze seam binding bow and the other for a little tag cut out with the jewellery punch. I gold-embossed the word 'love' on the tag because I thought this card had a touch of the fairy tale about it that would make it good for an engagement or anniversary.

I'm excited to say I can enter this card into Jules Crafty Snippet challenge too as it's been made out of off-cuts of card stock and paper and other items in my bits and pieces box. Oh, except the bird - I did have a bird in the box but I wanted him to wear the crown so I re-did him. Hope it still counts...

Supplies needed for this card:

Stamps: NatureWalk, Tiny Tags

Ink: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, versamark

Card stock: Very Vanilla, Baja Breeze, Pear Pizzazz, Crumb Cake

Other: Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder, clear and gold embossing powders, Little Leaves die, circle punch, jewellery punch, Baja Breeze seam binding, cropadile, eyelets, Newsprint designer paper

You can buy any of these supplies from me and I can have them delivered to your address in the UK. Just send me an email or give me a call on 01280 820593.

My oldest son is getting to be an expert cook. The other day I asked him for advice on making a thai curry as he'd made a really tasty one in Food Tech at school. "First you get a pan," he told me. "What sort of a pan?" I asked. "I dunno," he said. "What? You can't remember what kind of pan you used?!" I cried. "I think it was a saucepan," he said. "I can't remember what these things are called..." Hmmm. And this is the boy who can remember every tiny specification for every single electronic gadget known to man!

Thank you for your company today. I'll be back with Three Minute Thursday tomorrow and I'll hope to see you then.