Sending Hugs

Happy Friday!!!!!!!!  I've had a couple of friends needing some hugs and encouragement lately - so I colored up this Penny Black image with my prisma pencils and sent it off to one of them this week.

I used a Tim Holtz embossing folder in the background and my Lawn Fawn banner die cut and sentiment. I actually forgot I had the banner outline stamp so it looks a little bland, but I did ink the edges so it pops out a bit!

Have a great weekend!!!!!!

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Embedded Image - Just Because...

I received my SCS Weekly Inkling # 272 this past week and it had an "Embedded Image" tutorial.  I watched the video and it was definitely a technique I wanted to try!  Here's my result:

I had never heard of this technique, but you emboss the first layer in clear powder (twice if you prefer). Then you take a solid stamp and use a colored embossing powder and stamp it over the clear. When you heat up the colored powder, it melds into the clear layer.

Here's a close up shot:

For the details of the card, I used a Memory Box patterned paper for the clear embossed background and an Inkadinkado butterfly for the black embossed layer.  I laid that on a Tim Holtz embossed background and added a Hero Arts sentiment

I'll admit, I had to try this technique twice.  The first stamp I chose didn't work out too well. I suggest definitely using a solid stamp for your colored embossing powder layer - if you chose to try this!

Have a wonderful Monday!!!

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Graduation Cards

First off - thank you to all you blog visitors who were just as upset as I was about the Dog Wars App and clicked on the link to report the App.  There are some reports that Google disabled the App, but at the time I'm writing this...I don't think it's been officially cancelled yet.  ( I will keep checking the headlines though)

It's the season for graduation cards - these are two quick ones I put together last week using an old Studio G stamp and a  new Studio G cling set I got a Michael's.

Clean and simple and..........simple!!!  Other than the Studio G...I used a Tim Holtz embossing folder.

I hope you have a good day and those blogging friends in the south are safe with all these terrible storms and tornados!

I have a SEWING lesson today!!!  My mom found me a sewing machine at a tag sale this winter and brought it home and got it tuned up at a machine store.  The guy who refurbished it offered me a free lesson....so.......at some point in the future....I'll be sewing on my cards! Yippee!!!

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