Today, I’m sharing how to Easily Add Texture to Handmade Cards. I’m using more Spellbinders February Club products to add interest and dimension to my handmade cards.

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Adding texture to your handmade cards adds interest and intrigue.  You spend more time admiring the beauty of a layered card.  You want to touch and feel the textures in the layers.  In today’s post I’ll share 3 easy ways to achieve this along with a list of products I use for each one.

 

How to Easily Add Texture to Handmade Cards – Card #1 – Embossing with a Glimmer Plate.

 

Products Used:

 

• Spring Smiles – Clear Stamp and Die Set Feb/2025
• Spring Canopy – Glimmer of the Month Feb/2025
• (E) – Embossing Plate from the Universal Plate System

Up first, we are going to emboss the top and bottom overlay panels with a Glimmer Plate.

Start by creating an A2 Sized White card base 4-1/4″ x 11″, score and fold at 5-1/2″.

Next, using two pieces of the matching white cardstock, 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ you will use the Spring Canopy Glimmer Plate to emboss the leaves.

Start by die cutting the leaf edge from the cardstock pieces.  Then, line up the edge with the glimmer plate in your Platinum die cutting machine.

Take out the bottom cutting plate, and instead, cover the glimmer plate and cardstock with the (E) Embossing Mat, then the top cutting plate.

Run this through your machine and you will get a beautifully embossed panel.

Finally, add foam squares to the back around the leaf edge, then line up the panels at the top and bottom of your card, leaving enough room for the sentiment and embellishments in the center.  Flip the card over and cut off the overhang, then add glue across the top and bottom of the card base, to secure the embossed panels.

NOTE:  If you emboss first and die cut second, you will end up with a flatter embossing out near the edge of your card (as show in the above picture).  The die cutting process will flatten out your embossing, but the die around the edge protects that part of it from flattening.  This is why I suggest die cutting first, it’s a bit more finicky, but you can use some tape to hold it in place.

 

How to Easily Add Texture to Handmade Cards – Card #2 – Embossing Folder with a Die Cut Overlay.

 

Products Used:

• Spring Smiles Clear Stamp and Die Set Feb/2025
• Petite Bows – 3D Embossing Folder Feb/2025
•  Scallop Journal Cards Circles Dies
• Everlasting Circles Dies
• Spectrum AB Color Essential Gems

This card is texture heaven.  3 layers of die cuts over an embossed background.  It reminds me of wallpaper we had in the kitchen when I was a kid.

Start with the same white card base as above.

Next, die cut a card front from Beeswax card stock and emboss with the 3D Embossing Folder of the month:  Petite Bows and attach it to the card base.

Then, die cut the 3 flower  dies from the Small Die of the Month kit, Step Into Spring.  Sprinkle them generously over the card front and glue them down.

Finally, layer the yellow circle die cut over the white scalloped die cut and add 3 die cut white daisies including the stems and leaves.  Add a sentiment stamped using the Spring Smiles Clear Stamp and Die set.

Embellish with Spectrum A B Color Essentials Gems around the circle.

How to Easily Add Texture to Handmade Cards – Card 3, Layered die cuts, embossing and a Wax Seal.

Using layers of different die cuts over embossing can add beautiful texture to your cards.  Embellishing with a wax seal adds the “touch” factor.  You just have to touch it.

Products Used:

• Lush Leaf – Wax Seal of the Month Feb/2025
• Petite Bows 3D embossing folder Feb/2025
• Nested Postage Labels and tags dies
• Step Into Spring, Small Die of the Month

Start with the same card base, then add a 4-1/4″ x 5-1/2″ card front in Dahlia.

Next, use the Petite Bows 3D embossing Folder to emboss a white panel 3-3/4″ x 5″ and attach to the card front.

Then, use the Nested Postage Labels and Tags Die set to cut out the stitched background panel in Beeswax, then the postage stamp piece in white.  Layer these two together and add foam tape to the back before attaching them to the card base.  This not only adds interest to the center of your card, it frames and  highlights the art pieces.

Finally, die cut more of the flowers from the Step Into Spring Small Die of the month set, and attach them with foam squares.  I used Waterfall, Fern, Beeswax and Dahlia card stock for this.

Embellish with a wax seal created with this months Lush Leaf Seal.  Once the wax has cooled, color the leaves with the Gold Pen to make them pop.

 

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