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Yesterday I took some time to play with new Marianne Creatable Die/Emboss patterns.  As I'm spending a goodly amount of time watching Clare Charvill's Youtube channel, I can't help but want some of the lovely embellishments she uses.   eBay to the rescue.  What I hoped to achieve was the dry emboss technique.  And so it was that yesterday in the laboratory I toiled with this, that and the other thing trying to emboss with the little steel dies.  Not.  Cutting I can do, and you will see that these leafy designs do cut nicely.  (the black swirly things above).  Last evening, after making a mess at my work table, with little to show for it, I turned off the lights and shut the door. 

During the night my thoughts kept going back to embossing; including a 2 a.m. perusal of Youtube tutorials on how to use my Big Shot for such things.  There is no workaround; I had to purchase 2 special embossing pads.  Again, thank you eBay.  Still, the itch to take scissors and glue to paper was with me this morning so I made some use of the scraps and such that were still littering my table.