Embossing tutorial "Get Well Card"

Good Morning!

I am excited to show you a card I made using different techniques, I wanted to make it bright and a touch of softness so it will have a cheerful calming effect on the receiver that is not feeling so well.

One of the techniques I used was stamping and embossing with this ribbon

To get these effects follow the written tutorial just below the image

• For the area highlighted in black:  Cut a piece of ribbon to cover area you want this effect. (I used masking tape to hold it in place)
• Stamped over the ribbon with a waterbased ink, (I used "VERDIGRIS" Antiquites by Ranger) and  gave it a minute  to dry.
• Keeping the ribbon in place stamp over it again using Watermark resist ink pad ... (Tim Holtz's Watermark resist Dual- Purpose ink pad by Ranger )
•  Remove the ribbon and  sprinkled genereously with Clear Ultra Thick Embossing Powder  and use an Embossing Heat Gun to melt it.
• The area highlighted in red you will see I did the same thing with the Doiley only this time I just pressed the doiley into the ink pads.  Voila!!!!!!  Easy Peasy!

Not very straight with the camera so it seems!!! lol

 Today I am playing in a challenge over at Stamp with fun Challenge #71 , The Challenge this week is "Lace Doiley"Join in on the fun!!!!

Have a terrific day.

How to make a flower out of Scrapbooking paper

Today I thought I would share with all you scrapbooking addicts how to make a flower out of scrapbooking paper.... This is what the flower can look like when done so get your creative juices flowing!

So first you have to select at least 6 different papers, some could have texture like the Mulberry paper I used, or it could be ordinary patterned scrapbooking paper or card Stock.  
Actually if you don't have scrapbooking paper you can always use pages in an old book.. Here are the colored papers I used:

I have actually used left over scrap paper that did not coordinated with each other at all and they were some of my favorites so don't get caught up in trying to match unless you want this flower for a certain page with an existing theme.