How to make a simple embossed card with Ujjwal Gupta! :)

Today's guest is Ujjwal Gupta of Handmade with love. I "met" Ujjwal sometime last year when she started participating in my guest blogger challenges. Her style epitomizes simple elegance. I love that she exercises restraint rather than pile on the embellishments. Her cards have a clear, often graphic focal point that draws your attention and makes you think "Hey, why didn't I think of doing that?" Today she shares a tutorial on embossing with scor-tape and is hosting a challenge with an awesome prize for the winner! :)

But first, let's take a look at her gallery of work!

Hello, I’m Ujjwal living in Pune, India and I am super excited to be a guest blogger on Yvonne's blog today. I am almost like the rest of the crafters around, seriously addicted to Crafts, admiring, hoarding and most defiantly buying ( things that I don't need but MIGHT need :D ). I got married to a wonderful guy10 months back and life has been a beautiful journey ever since.My DH is most supportive, encouraging and ever so patient with my crafting needs(I am not sure if its the same when I go on my crafting shopping spree!)

I have been into card making and crafting since I was a small kid but it got serious when I discovered blogging one year back and started my own blog in feburary 2010 and there has been no looking back since then. I have met some very talented people..made wonderful friends and learned a lot.

I am a full-time working software professional and I am not really sure if I really love my job ( except for the part that it pays and I can buy all the crafting goodies :D) because my heart is always in crafts.

I am glad to have been given the opportunity to be featured here today. Looking forward to all the fun and crafting!

Although I love experimenting with different techniques and styles of crafting, over the years I have found myself to be most comfortable being simple. No heavy layering, No complicated sketches, simple color schemes & no heavy embelishments. So my challenge for you all is to make simple cards. But wait thats not all - to add some more fun I want you to add some sort of embossing to your projects  (which is my new found love :D). 

Here is the card I created and a short tutorial I prepared.

Step 1: Once you have decided on the layout and design of your project, gather you supplies.

For this card: scor tapes (1/4” and 1” wide), dimensional adhesive, cardstock, ranger embossing   tinsel in red, Colorbox white ink, skipping stone stamp set (Grunge), felt flower embellishment, heat tool

Step 2: Apply the scor tape on the cardstock as per your choice of design.

             Remove the tape backing and sprinkle embossing powder/tinsel.

Step 3: Once you have applied the embossing powder/tinsel as per your requirement, heat the embossing powder using a heat tool.

Step 4: After the embossing is completely heat set, work on the stamping part of your design.

I used Skipping Stones Stamp set and white pigment ink to stamp my images.

Step 5: Put you card together.

             I used some 3D Foam adhesive to add some dimension to the top layer.

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A pretty easy way to add a little extra sparkle to your project! Are you ready to play along? Your challenge if you choose to accept it, is to create a simple card featuring either dry or wet embossing. Share your new simple and embossed cards via Inlinkz (located at the end of the post) by Friday July 1st. 

As always, please leave a little love for my guest Ujjwal. :)