I used a lot of different techniques, but of course, since I love embossing so much, I incorporated that into this card. I heat embossed the women's clothes and dry embossed the planter on the front. I made the card outline and windows with SCAL and cut it with Cricut (I might post up the SCUT file that I used for this). I used vellum as the window "glass" and sandwiched it between two indentical pieces of the card outline and windows. I used a flower eyelet to put the ribbon through; the ribbon is used to tie the windows together because it doesn't stay put. I used Prima flowers, stickles, corner punches, and rhinestones. I used foam to create some dimension. Stamp is from My Favorite Things - Meet Me At The Cafe.

How did I emboss the women's clothes, you might ask? I'm not sure if anyone else does this, and I wouldn't be surprised if they did, but what I did was take a paint brush, dabbed it into embossing ink, painted the women's clothes with this clear ink, and heat embossed like I normally would! It's great, but a little frustrating when you want the stamp lines to show up clearly.

Close up of one of the women.

Hope you enjoyed my card, it was fun making it. Let me know if you have any more questions about "paint embossing"...that's what I'm choosing to call what I do :)