Stampalisious Card Club

My Technique & Tool Usage Card Club meets this Saturday! (the third Saturday of each month). This month the Techniques we are working with are: Heat Embossing and Dry Embossing. The Tools we are working with are: the Big Shot and the Heat Gun.

The first card, we are using an embossing folder, they are the easiest, but I will also get out my plates so they can have a try at that.

The second care, we are heat embossing the tree. (We will also be using the 'stamp-a-ma-jig' for placement.) I just L o v e the new raven lace trim Stampin' Up! has come out with. It is so delicate and beautiful, without being too 'girl-y'. I had to add a sparkly brad. Come-on it was screaming to be put on. :)

These cards aren't challenging with 50 steps, so my ladies will love them. Sometimes, you just want to make a card in under an hour. Know what I mean?

Thank you for looking! Have a wonderful week, its half over, so its all downhill from here!

Card Club-Alcohol Halloween Card

I like Halloween, but I don't love it. My daughter has always been a big fan and supported of the holiday. I wanted to make a card for her. but, she's grown. I was looking for something grown-up, but not Gothic. I used the House of Haunts stamp set from Stampin' Up! I heat embossed the tree image in black. For the haunted house image, I stamped the image on glossy white card stock. I used a yellow marker to color-in the moon, windows and open door. I wet a cotton ball with rubbing alcohol. Then added a few drops of three different re-inkers (elegant eggplant, perfect plum, and lavender lace). I dabbed the inked cotton ball randomly on the glossy white card stock. When you first finish, the colors looked rough. but, once you let the alcohol ink dry, the colors looked better, softer, natural. This is a version of the 'polished stone' technique, but without the metallic ink. Thanks for looking!