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I am now in my second year of learning parchment craft. and am finally getting the hang of some basic but vital techniques. Embossing is the technique that makes or breaks any project and thanks to a little book by joanna sheen i now feel that i am improving.

most parchies will agree that the rose is the most difficult flower to emboss. with overlaping petals and petal turning over at the edges it is difficult to know how the embossing should look. but the most difficult thing to decide is wheather to emboss from the front or the back of the parchment. it is this that gives your work a 3d element. think of a flower as a cup if you look at the out side of a cup it curves towards you therefore emboss from behind so that the embossing comes forward when you turn to the front. if you look at the inside of he cup it curves away from you therefore emboss it on the front of the work. remember that the dark areas are just as important these are left unembossed.

this card is a styalised rose as is all embossed from the back the ribbon however is embossed from the front and the back depending on how it falls see if you can decide which bits are embossed from the front and the back.

thats one fab card love the colours too

Beautiful rose.

Luv Jane XX

I've bought a small kit and I am about to give it a try for the first time. Only embossing I did prior to this was through my Cuttlebug. Lol. Beautiful card btw.

beautiful card

Utterly utterly beautiful. I have been looking at some of your parchment work and it has inspired me to have a go . . . time permitting!