Paper and Fiber Arts: Black and White Embossed Card

This black and white embossed card looks impressive, though it is very simple to make. The inspiration came from the Altenew Academy course, Impressive Heat Embossing Techniques. It is a variation of one of the beautiful cards made with heat-embossed details.

Steps for making this card

Using two pieces of cardstock, each cut to 5.5" by 4.25", stamp images with the same placement on each piece. I chose to use a piece of white cardstock stamped with black ink as the base. Then I stamped the same images with Versamark ink on black cardstock and used white embossing powder to heat emboss the floral images and sentiment. These images are all from the Build-A-Flower: Primrose stamp set from Altenew. A Misti stamp positioner made this very easy because the images were stamped in the same location for both pieces.

Die cut the center of the cardstock for the top layer

Gina K. Designs has a variety of dies to use for cardmaking. I chose the Large Rectangle 1, measuring 3.75" x 5" from the Master Layouts 1 set to cut the stamped and embossed black cardstock. This center section could also be cut with a craft knife or a paper trimmer that allows for starting a cut inside the paper to make a frame.

The black piece is popped up with foam tape and placed equidistance from the edges of the white base which makes the stamped images align. A few white sequins add a little sparkle and this lovely black and white embossed card is complete.