Today I have a card to share featuring a new embossing glitter trio called Riviera. These fun mixes have coloured embossing powder and glitter along with larger granules of white and black. They give such a unique finish and the embossed patterns are different every time.


As the theme of the Facebook challenge this month is DIY embellishments, I decided to use the Riviera trio to create some fun embellishments for my card.

I die cut the Lawn Fawn Cheers word die several times from white card. I layered three of the words together to create a stacked die cut, then embossed with the Provencal embossing glitter. I repeated this step with the other two powders in the trio, to create three cheers.

For my background, I used the Love Stripes embossing folder from Fun Stampers Journey to add texture to a piece of white card. I added two thin strips of Cool Pool FSJ card to the top and bottom of my card base, then adhered the embossed panel over the top.

I used liquid glue to add the embossed …

Texture plays a big part in my projects that's why I love embossing so much, but to add embossing on texture paste goes that little bit further in adding even more depth and interest. 

For this card layout I decided on a circle theme taking inspiration from the stamp set Round and Round from WOW! I also wanted a bright vibrant background so went for my favourite green-blue hues over a pink-orange watercolour background.
After cutting and painting my circles I added a light texture paste through a dotty stencil.
While this was still wet I sprinkled Serene from the Riviera Trio set and allowed it to settle on the texture paste. I dried both the powder and paste together and deliberately let the heat tool linger a bit longer. This caused the paste underneath to bubble up slightly exaggerating the depth of texture!

I think what I like the most about this particular embossing glitter, is that mottled finish created with the blend of different sized particles. It's so different.

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The new theme for September is DIY Embellishments, and I love to make my own from scraps of paper and fabric, layering them together to create little clusters which I can use on anything from cards to journals. I have a box of collage materials which includes die cut shapes which I can emboss onto and sew together with my off cuts to create these little embellishments.

 As a base to create two ATC's, I used some of my scrap papers to collage over the surface of pre cut card and scraped gesso over them to tone down the colour. I gathered a few pieces I wanted to use along with the new Riviera Trio powders which I absolutely love.

After embossing the die cuts with the three Riviera powders, I played about with the little clusters layering them together until I was happy.

I ran everything including the ATC base through the sewing machine a few times, randomly stitching it all together. 

To finish I added some typed words and a starfish on one of them.



 I love the colours of these …