Autumn!!!

I know, it's summer still ... but I'm ready to make fall cards! I made this one a few weeks ago with some Paperbag Studio stamps I borrowed from a friend. It's obviously meant to be a photo negative, but once I had this idea, I made a bunch of images this way. For some, I used this sparkle black, for others, I used a deep brown mica. This is the only card I have actually completed, though next week I hope to use the image for a few more cards. I liked the idea of the rainbow look behind the trees ... there is hope that with the dying season of fall, there will be rebirth...

This was done using heat and stick powder to emboss with, then brushing metallic powders over the stamped image.

Faith

Have I mentioned I love butterflies? :-) They are such a wonderful reminder of God's transforming grace...

This is, of course, more iridescent powder. Tomorrow I'll show a card made with it that skips the sticky emboss powder.

Butteflies are from Eureka.

Fun with metallic powders

I'm really not sure where to find the powders I used in this. I purchase them from Biblical Impressions under the former owners, and the current owners are not currently carrying it. It was called fashion dust. Images are stamped with versamark, sticky embossing powder is applied and heat set. Colors are brushed on with a paintbrush. These are interference colors (showing up only on dark colors). This is a card similar to another I submitted to the smARTworks challenge. Butterflies are from smARTworks; text is from Biblical Impressions.

Note: when working with bling dust, it's important to wait until it cools to buff, otherwise it's easy to smear.

metallic powders

I asked my the two main ladies at the workshop if there was anything in particular they wanted to do, and this technique was their choice.

Baroque background is from Eureka, text is from Biblical Impressions.