Emboss, Emboss for CAS Mix Up Reminder

We're halfway through the month and it's time for
more inspiration for CAS Mix Up.

I'm hosting the challenge this month and I chose

I've used my NBUS Tim Holtz Tall Pines Embossing Folder.

First I embossed a piece of Mixed Media paper.

I swiped Distress Ink and Markers on my palette and picked up

color with a damp water brush to watercolor the trees using

mainly Iced Spruce and Pine Needles ink.

Then I inked the raised area on the embossing folder, spritzed with water

and used it as a stamp to get some watery pine trees beside

the embossed ones.

When it was all dry, I used wet on wet watercolor to add

some color to the background.

It's hard to see but I used some second and third generation stamping

between the bases of the trees for shubbery.

I tore a snippet of white cardstock for a snow bank and

stamped with the Iced Spruce I used for the trees.

The stately deer was cut from Crumb Cake cardstock and

stamped with a background stamp in the same color.

There's so many ways to use Embossing Folders.

I hope you'll use one and share your card with us at 

CAS Mix Up.

The challenge is open until November 24th.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Holiday Snippets (PB), Tall Pines Embossing Folder (TH), Sanded Background (ret. SU)

Ink:   Iced Spruce, Pine Needles, Brushed Corduroy, Pumice Stone, Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans, Wilted Violet (DI)

Paper:  Mixed Media (Strathmore 400 Series), Neenah Solar White, Crumb Cake (SU)

Other:  Reindeer & 25 Die (TH), Tall Pines EF (TH), Double Pierced Rectangles (Avery Elle)