This week's Raise the Bar Challenge is to use damask and/or swirls on a card. While at a LSS, an employee showed me how to turn your embossing folders into stamps by using a piece of 1/2" fun foam! You first heat the foam with a heat gun then quickly put it in the EF and run it through a die machine (I have a Big Shot). Your foam should now have the embossed pattern on it. I swiped 3 different colors of distress ink pads over the foam pad, misted it slightly with water and then "stamped" it on paper. No two tries are ever the same, but I liked the unique BG it created! I used Chupa's Sketchbook Saturday Sketch for the layout.
STAMPS: Primitive Pumpkins (MFT), Super Dad (Verve)-flag outline.
PAPER: Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, White.
INK: Crushed Olive, Rusty Hinge, Spiced Marmalade distress inks by Tim Holtz; Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive and Soft Suede by SU.
ACCESSORIES: Swirls EF by CB, Postage stamp border and Open scallop border Die-Namics by MFT, Chocolate pearls, Jute twine, Stripes EF by SU, Ribbon banner die by Verve.
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2012 GMT Views: 1054
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