Embossing congrats card

I wanted to do some embossing in this project because i think it makes things look swanky. So i decided to emboss the congratulation card.

I first tried the card i was using to print on to make sure it would emboss well.

I then printed out the design twice so i could cut out the parts i wanted to emboss.
Here is the embossing from the other side as i was doing it.
The final embossed card. Its very hard to see in this photo, or any in that matter because its quite a subtle process and its not until you get it in yours hands until you really notice.

Congrata-well done

Through one of my crits i wanted to incorporate embossing within my design but the bottles and wooden box wouldn't let me do this. But i thought of a card to say could say thank you or congratulations inside the crate.I used the logo and then a simple congratulations. I used brown rather than black because it was to contrasting with black.
I then added the two white deer.
With the white deer the logo looked a bit lifeless so i high lighter these with white on the banners. i also put the numerals inside brown circles to keep in with the design of the bottles.
The white deer was making the design to busy to i got rid of them, by doing this the numerals seem to squashed to i spread them out.

Emboss, Deboss, im da boss

After talking with Mr.Lorenzo about embossing without plates i thought i would give it a go with the antlers i cut out before .

Its not as clean an emboss as it would be with plates and a press but for mock ups and ideas its a effective way of showing what it would look like.