Start with your main image.
Cover the entire surface with Versamark.
Immediately sprinkle on Ultra Thick Embossing powder or UTEE and emboss with your heat gun. Repeat, sprinkling on additional powder while this is still hot to cover well.

Sponge in some color to age it if this is the effect you would like. It is just as pretty left plain without additional inking.

An oldie but goodie, Sweeter Treaters

by Stampin' Up. I cased the layout and

color scheme from the cover of Creating

Keepsakes magazine of a scrapbook page. 

I stamped the Brocade Basics on River Rock

cardstock in matching ink, stamped Carte

Postale swirl in Pumpkin on die cut jack-o-lantern

and background, added snaps (Making Memories),

mounted to Pumpkin Pie card base.

I got the new Sizzix Ghosts and Pumpkin dies

and will have to try them out, hopefully today.

 

Check out the card challenge found here:

The challenge is to make a card for girls only,

a Mom, sister, friend, daughter, etc. The second part

is to send it to someone special, just because.

I just got this adorable A Muse penguin

and had to try it out straight away. I'm

not sure why I pictured him stuck in an ice

block :-)

I went to the mall today and saw an outfit in a store display,

it might have been the Limited, I'm not sure. It was this same

color Houndstooth jacket with red and black accessories.

I thought it would make a cool card.

 

Jim ad I went to a new Chinese restaurant tonight and I

I saw a cool painting there of a dove and some cherry

blossoms. I think that one may be a bit harder to

re-produce. 

Step 1.
Start with your standard card base and punch a circle in the front.
I used a 1 3/8" punch, centered on card and went in as far as the punch would reach.

Step 2:
Punch out the same size (1 3/8") circle onto the second layer/panel of your card.
  

Step 3:

Punch two slightly smaller circles using a 1 1/4" punch.

 

Step 4:
Sandwich and adhere a piece of dental floss between the two circles

Step 5:

Line it up to the second panel and adhere. Flip this panel over, line it up to card base and adhere.

 

 

Step 6:

Finish card as desired.

 

This took a while to color, I used Prismacolor pencils.

I love the Thomas Kinkade paintings, his use of light is

so beautifully done and very hard to duplicate. 

This will be one of the techniques shown on Sunday's

stamp club. It is very easy, a 1 3/8" and 1 1/4" circle

punch and dental floss were used to suspend the images.

Fast and fun!