Techniques Club projects today

As I promised yesterday, I am sharing the 3 techniques my club members learned today during our monthly get-together.

 

This first one is called "Emerging Color" and I absolutely love it!!  I used pale plum, perfect plum, mellow moss, elegant eggplant and soft suede to create the card and the stamp sets used are Medallion, Vintage Vogue and On Your Birthday .  The white satin ribbon finishes it off nicely, I think.  I love my brayer and this technique combines heat embossing and brayering for a stunning effect (it is really beautiful in real life) - I don't think the camera captures it fully.  If you've not tried this technique you really should!  You start with a piece of whisper white cardstock and stamp all over it... then overstamp that with a large solid image stamp using Versamark.  Heat emboss using clear powder then brayer over the whole piece with a darker ink.  The embossing will resist the ink, leaving the beautiful image below.

This second technique is one that was shared at the Regionals in Phoenix - you create "lace" using the eyelet border punch and your crimper.  To create a flower you punch out a circle and wrap the lace strip around it.  I CASE'd this gorgeous card straight from Jennifer Cotton's blog - why alter something as beautiful as this card?!

And the last technique that I taught today was the origami shaker box.  Again, I CASE'd my card - this time from LeeAnn Greff's blog.  I did change the butterfly to incorporate the new Beautiful Wings embosslit available in the Occasions mini catalog and used the Perfect Polka Dots textured impressions folder for the old olive background piece.  Are you wondering how I cut out the whisper white piece behind the DSP?  It is such a cool thing... run a piece of cardstock through your Big Shot using the Top Note die.  Now, don't pick up your piece of paper and rotate it on the die 90 degrees and line up the points.  Run it through again and you get this cool piece!!  If you save the pieces that are cut off you get 2 neat bracket pieces that you can use on another project.  And if you center the Top Note die on a quarter sheet of cardstock you can use that piece as a photo mat.  No waste, right?!

Thanks for stopping by today... I'll be back tomorrow with my Fabulous Friday project.  This week's theme is Valentine's Day/Love.

Comments

[Jettie]

I love the Origami technique! My sister-in-law will love this for her birthday card.

[Mitra]

What an awesome card Debbie! I saw one that you gave to Dawn and I had to leave you a comment to say how much I liked it! (and this one too :D)

[LeeAnn]

Thanks for the link & credit Debbie. Love your card!
I am casing your adorable Top Note penguin project for my Big Shot club Sunday, so I'll send credit & a link your way for that next week!