Friendship Card

In one of the classes that I teach, I am trying to express to my students the need to step out of your comfort zone if you want to make a difference in our business society.  Well, it is time I do the same myself, so I have been watching a lot of video’s on distressing so I thought I would try something out of my comfort zone.  I do not do a lot (next to none) of work using distressing inks.  I have done a couple of very simplistic projects I will share later this week.

I created this card by first using a heat embossing with a sparkle white embossing powder.  I then used a Tim Holtz “Tea Dye” Distress Ink to ink the entire design.  Using his distressing tool, I rubbed over the entire design until all of the doily was clean and sparkled.  I topped it off with a stick on rosé simply because I am not good at making flowers (yet).  I am working on that technique by watching more videos.

The inside is stamped with a friendship sentiment; however, this card could easily be used for any holiday or occasion.

Just for You Tag

I belong to a swap group that does a monthly tag swap.  This month we were to chose any stamp and use it on our tag.  Therefore, I dug out one of my newest Stampin’ Up Stamp sets and set out to work.

I did not want the tag to be the plain flat tag, so I decided to emboss it.  I still did not like it.  It did not pop to me.  So I took my Dew Drop ink and inked the bottom on my embossing folder then I embossed the tag.  I really like the looks of the tag once I did that.  Im thinking, it would have been better to use the Olive Green ink, but I know that color would not come off my embossing folder as easily as the Dew Drop ink did.  So I chose a color that complemented the flowers in the second layer.   I topped it all off with the addition of a white rosé at the top of the sentiment.