When I was doing the earlier ones, using some pre-embossed cardstock, I said it gave me another idea.
What I've done here is to divide the die cut in two, and emboss the plain half with various embossing folders.
This one uses an X-Cut folder called Cable Knit, on a background taken from a paper pack of Christmas Papers recently bought from The Works. They don't all have a Christmas image on them, this one is just a mottled blue .
This one used a Cuttlebug folder,Cogs & Wheels. No backing paper, and I think this is a sort of masculine looking card.
The next one has a sheet of backing paper from a pad called Far East, and the folder is Craft Concepts Weaving Blocks.
Next one in white, and the folder is called 'Lines & Dots', by Indentz. I backed it onto some circuit board looking backing paper. Another possible masculine card.
Final one isn't too easy to see the embossing, but I scored a straight line under the greeting, then diagonal lines using the Stampin' Up board below that.