Partial Embossing

 For this card I decided to do some partial embossing.  This was achieved by slicing a square of white card diagonally and embossing just the left hand side before simply sticking the two parts back together, adding a strip of ribbon to cover the join.  Leaves were stencilled, stamped and die cut and a simple die cut sentiment added.  Different partially embossed results could be achieved by slicing the piece of card in various places - lots of variations possible.

Embossing Folder - came free with a magazine a while ago
Leaves - stencil, stamp and die set from Globleland
Birthday Sentiment - unbranded die

Sentiment Frame

 I saw a video recently where Chrissie Stokes explained how she made a sentiment frame using Microsoft Word - link to video is  HERE.  I thought I'd give it a try but unfortunately I have a quite different version of Word so had to 'wing it' a bit to achieve a result.   It seems to me that the newer versions of Word are far more complicated than the versions I've been used to along the way although they seem to have more functions these days.  Anyway I achieved something usable and have printed it onto a piece of DSP and then used a square die to cut out the panel.  I decided to make a postage stamp style of card using a very ancient Spellbinders die which hasn't seen the light of day for some time.  A smaller square panel was cut to fit and then stamped with a text background and some other stamps, mostly magazine freebies which I have in my collection.  Background DSP is from a Phill Martin pad.

Birthday Time!!

 It's birthday time at  Allsorts - the challenge has been running for 15 years and to celebrate there is a huge bundle of prizes from Aall & Create to be shared with the lucky winners this time.  The theme is very simple too **Anything Goes** and I've made a stamped card on a coffee theme and added a few extra texture stamps and a computer sentiment.  There is lots of inspiration from the design team and guest designer too so well worth taking a look.

Coffee Grinder - stamp from Caffeinated set by A & C
Texture stamps - various stamps from my stash
Colouring - Inktense pencils with water brush
Sentiment - produced using Microsoft Word