Tuesday's Post "Tiramisu Christmas Card"

Tiramisu Technique

Here is another of my CAS(ED) Christmas cards. This one comes from Lesley of alwayspalyingwithpaper.blogspot.com, she named her card her Tiramisu Technique (2010) card because the colors looks like the dessert. I agree, yummm! Now, I had to tweak it a little to make it mine, so I changed how I cut out the layers and added embossing to the base card. I used a Spellbinder's Labels # 8 to cut the layers after stamping.

This technique had me over the moon excited because when I read the directions it was so easy, but looks so intricate.  Ok, here goes...

I used Very Vanilla paper and envelope, I have a thing about a"naked" envelope...I have to add something to connect it to the card. (See picture) The base paper was prepared with my handy dandy little bag of powder so that the embossing powder wouldn't stick where I didn't want it to. I stamped the snowflakes from the Serene Snowflake set where I wanted them with Whisper White ink, quickly added white embossing powder, and heated it until it was shiny.

Next, I took another piece of Very Vanilla (4" x 5") and stamped it with the En Francais background stamp using Chocolate Chip. Then I stamped all over it with several of the snowflakes in Whisper White ink, added white embossing powder and heated it until shiny.

Then, I used a dauber with Crumb Cake ink and lightly (very important) daubed (rubbed) in circular motions around all the snowflakes giving it the Tiramisu effect. OMG, I'm in love with this combination!

On to the cutting. With die #8, the smallest and next two up from that, I put it all on my cutter and away I went. Then sat down to fussy cut the three backgrounds from Vanilla Bean brown card stock. After assembling the layers I decided to add a ribbon and a greeting which I backed in the same brown as the labels. I added a greeting inside, my snowflake to the envelope, and sat back to admire the card. WOW! I did it!

If you have any questions, you can reach me here. Get busy, make cards, and have fun!

I donated one of these cards ( in a package of 10) to an auction this past Sunday and received rave reviews.