Cards from Card Club - December

The second set of cards we made featured, the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set by Stampin' Up. We used an Old Olive stamp pad, and then used our handy Blender pen to remove some of the ink from the tree trunk. Then we used a Soft Suede Stampin' Write Marker to color the trunk and branches. That gave us the two tone tree. The Old Olive cardstock we (gulp) crumpled up before tearing the edge. I always feel so "wrong" when I crumple up perfectly good SU Cardstock!!! The Very Vanilla is matted on Soft Suede, and the card base is Pretty In Pink. The sentiment is from the "On your Birthday" set. We finished off the look of the card by adding three little knots in Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla, and Old Olive ribbon. I took some of the inspiration from a card created by Peggy Brooks on Stampin' Connection. (Stampin' Connection is a website exclusive to Stampin' Up Demonstrators)

Faux Metal Tin Ceiling

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I found the instructions for this technique on Stampin Connection, by Diana Gibbs. I CASEd the layout for this card from one she had made. You start with a neutral color cardstock, and then cover it in Versamark, and then silver embossing powder, heat and repeat this process a few times until you get a nice solid silver. After it is nice and cool cut out square and run through an embossing machine. The folder I used here is not SU, but it's what I had on hand. then you just adhere the squares down, and Viola! I used Ballet Blue, Whisper White, and Basic Gray cardstock. Then I finished it off with Whisper White Taffeta ribbon.

Now I didn't start out making this card! Actually I was attempting to make a Faux Tapestry (I think that is what it is called) card, but I didn't do it right.So that is when I grabbed my silver embossing powder. So there are a couple of places that you see some color coming through the gray. If you do it the right way, you won't see that! You will have a nice solid silver. But you know what they say "Practice makes perfect" and I am definitely trying this card again! I am not giving up on that tapestry card either! :)

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