Faux-linen dry embossed background

Hello friends! Welcome back to another Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog theme. This week our theme is Trees, which also happens to be one of my favorite things.

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Don't miss the beautiful project by our November guest designer Laura Cassina.

I made a winter or Christmas card this week, using a fun background technique using white glossy paper. It creates almost a faux-linen look, especially if you use a harsher sand paper than I did (I couldn't find my pile of sand papers). I used products mainly from the new Simon Says Stamp Handmade Holiday release.

Start by covering a piece of glossy cardstock with a light shade of Distress Ink. I used Bundled Sage. 

Sand pretty heavily in vertical and/or horizontal strikes. Ink with Antique Linen. Sand again, in one direction only.

Ink with Bundled Sage again. This time I used a brayer. Sand again in one direction only.

Ink with Lucky Clover and Pine Needles also using a brayer. Don't cover the whole background this time. The ink will stick unevenly to the paper because of the sanding.

Emboss in the Simon Says Stamp Snowflocked Hills folder. The folder is one of the new, wonderful embossing folders from the Handmade Holiday release.

Sand pretty heavily to turn the stars white and give the hills and trees a snowy look.

Ink the foreground again, to make it darker and add some ink around the edges.

The subtle textured effect is a little hard to capture on photo, and also feels nice to the touch.

Sentiments from Simon Says Stamp Forest Scenery were stamped on the background with green Archival Ink.

I stamped one of the sentiments on glossy cardstock, so that it would stand out better. The Simon Says Stamp Etched Berry Branch, also from the Handmade Holiday release, was die cut from vellum. I glued two sequins to the branches as berries.

Here you can see the cool textured and layered effect better. The deer from Forest Scenery was stamped with Pine Needles ink and sinks under the surface of the faux-linen texture.

I hope you will join us this week in our Trees challenge. You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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