Pink Robot – Background Gears Embossed with Dies

Double the use of your dies by embossing instead of cutting with them. This Pink Robot has a silver foil background of gears embossed with dies.

For this months Crafting By Designs challenge, Anything Goes! It’s really a great challenge as you can be creative and make anything, and then you’ll be able to win 2 free digi stamps!

For this pink robot birthday card, I used the digital stamp Birthday Bot from our sponsor Dr. Digi.

To make the birthday bot pop, I put it on a background of silver foil. As cool as this paper is, it needed some texture for more interest. Die-cutting gears from the foil didn’t give the look I wanted, but I didn’t have an embossing folder that said “robot.”

See below how I used my gear die-cuts to created a background embossed with gears.

Steps for the Background Embossed With Dies Technique:

1. Cut silver foil paper to 4″ x 5 1/4″.

2. Make your “sandwich:

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• Impressions Pad (white)
• Thin silicone rubber mat (blue)
• Silver Foil Paper (good side down)
• Die (cutting edge UP)
• Standard cutting pad (usually clear)
• Platform (set to the shortest setting)

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TIP: Sometimes I find the sandwich needs to be super tight for die-cuttting as it rolls through, but the embossing with dies onto foil technique doesn’t take as much pressure to get a deep texture.

3. Run your foil and die-cut/embossing sandwich through your die-cutting machine.

Supplies for a Pink Robot Card:

Lovely Lipstick 8-1/2″ X 11″ Cardstock $8.75	Silver Foil Sheets $5.00	Lovely Lipstick Stampin’ Blends Markers Combo Pack $9.00
Garage Gears Dies $33.00	Big Shot Embossing Mats $15.00	Geared Up Garage Cling Stamp Set $21.00
Versamark Pad $9.50	Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder $6.00	Stampin’ Dimensionals $4.00

Want to learn some tips on how to use digital stamps and combine them with your stamp and crafting stash? See the post below for lots of tips and tricks:

I’m playing along with these challenges:

• Shopping Our Stash #405 – Dream the Embossible Dream

• Unicorn Challenge Blog – Pretty In Pink

Happy Crafting!