Made the background on glossy cardstock using the Striped Wipe Technique and then doing the twisted version both seen here in the tutorial in SCS resources Striped Wipe Tutorials at Splitcoaststampers
Came in real handy when making this card that I am going to use at my October Stamp-A-Stack. My theme is cards for the men in your life.
The "Dude" was done on my computer and printed out. Since I only had a Buckaroo Blue dye ink pad, I first inked the stamp with VersaMark and then quickly inked with a Buckaroo Blue Dye Ink Pad and then stamped it on the paper. The Versamark helps keep the stamp wet enough to hold the embossing powder after you add the color from the dye ink pad and the Versamark does not hurt your dye ink pad.