Guest Designer at Let's Squash It

 I was delighted to recently be chosen as Empress of Squash over at Let's Squash It, the embossing folder challenge,  and as a result was invited to be guest designer for this month's challenge, which is to emboss something other than  paper or card. 

I decided to have a go at embossing metal. I used a piece of thin craft metal, red on one surface, and embossed it with an all-over heart patterned folder from Santoro then sanded the surface lightly to allow the silvery base metal to show through. 

I added a cross little kitty and sentiment, using Clearly Besotted stamps, and made it into a gatefold card. 

Here is the closed version - excuse the clothes peg, it's just to hold the card closed while i took the photo. 

I'm really excited to see what you decide to emboss - and if you are looking for ideas of surfaces to try, come back later today when I'll be revealing some more of my experiments in squashing! 

I am sharing this with 

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything Goes 

Show Us Your Pussycats - Furrything Goes