My Guy Ian and Bossabilities

I recently bought the Spellbinders M-Bossabilities  Embossing Folder-Kickin' Rubber!  Thought that this would create some great cards for the boys & men in our lives.

Here are the cards I created with the embossing folder and  My Guy Ian - The Greeting Farm Stamp colored with Copic Markers:

Chalkboard Technique Tutorial

Tried the Chalkboard Technique and really loved it!!  

So thought this would be great to do as my first tutorial.  

So here goes....

 The items needed:

 Black Card Stock

 Embossing Ink 

White Ink

Embossing Powder

Heating Tool 

Stamps  

 

 

Cut down the card stock to desired size. 

Use the Embossing ink pad with your stamp just like you would with regular ink.

 After stamping, pour the embossing powder over the stamped image liberally
use a tupperware dish or some kind of container to discard the left over.  
Depending on the detail of your stamp you may want to repeat the this step
a few times until you get the definition of the stamp that you want.  The leftover
embossing powder can be put back in the container and be reused.

 The stamps I used were made by craft smart.

  

Use the heat tool and in a circular motion go over the stamped images.  

Caution be careful as this tool does get really HOT! :)  You will see that the 

embossing powder will start to melt and form more a solid image.  Once the images 

are solid and no powder is visible, stop and let the project cool.

After the project has cooled, use white ink and sponge to make it

 look like a chalk board that has be written on and erased several times.

 

Tap the sponge into the ink pad and lightly rub sponge onto the project in
 random places.  You will get the sense of how much ink to use and how hard to press.
  NOTE: I recommend practicing first on a scrap piece of paper before hand.

The finished product!

Here are some cards using this technique:

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial, please feel free to 

leave comments or feedback to make the future ones even better!

Cherished Memories of 2013

This year for Christmas we decided to make homemade gifts.   Each scrapbook was 100% homemade from cutting the chipboard to gluing and sanding each page.    The pictures are the same but the themes are different.  Hope you enjoy them!

Butterfly Theme:

Victorian Bicycle Theme:

 Car/Gear Theme:

Victorian Bird Theme:

Gear-reat Birthday Card

My husband needed a birthday card for one of his friends.  So naturally, I said "I will make you one!"
Decided to go with the gear theme and this is how it turned out: