For all of you who love to try metal in their embossing folders, I have a tip for you today: Go shopping!
When you go to the supermarket and do your regular shopping, take another look at the soda cans. Some have beautiful colors (and even the drinks inside are nice too!!) . When you are home and have finished your drink, take some garden scissors and cut of the top and the bottom of the can. Now you can flatten te metal and lay it inside your embossing folder.You can also use the metal side (inner side of the can), but for the double metal embossing, the outside is great. Once you have run it trough the cuttlebug, you take some sandpaper and sand your metal before you run it trough the cuttlebug again with another folder. I used my asian flowers and swiss dots folder for this one. And one more tip: the ceapest cans work the best, for their metal is much softer!
Papers and stamps for this card are all by Club Scrap. It is from the May Blossom collection.
There is more inspiration on my Craftchaos Blog:
It's Evelyn here....trying out the Double Embossed Metal from the Feb/March newsletter. I ordered four colors of metal after I saw the newsletter; this card uses Plum. The first embossing was with the Swiss Dots folder, and the second was with SU's Rose folder. Although I did color some with a purple Sharpie, it doesn't show up very well. I backed the metal piece with specialty dark purple cardstock from Club Scrap and accented it with some soft purple pearls. (Click on the photo to see details.) .....Evelyn Spikes
