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Well here we are friends...this is the LO that I taught at Fruitful Hands on the 17th March... I wanted to concentrate more on some techniques to use on chipboard elements and not so much on the LO Design itself. I really like how the chippies turned out and I think the girls also had fun learning some new techniques. The papers I used are  Fabscraps Organic range and the chippies are from Enmarc Crafts.

I am going to place this LO onto Scrap Africa's blog as well for their Challenge#2- Fabscrape Challenge...please visit their blog as well!

The title was die cut twice using Donna's Alphas and the top layer was torn and distressed...

The swirl was first stamped with a script stamp and chalk, using chalk as I am going to use embossing powder and I don't want the script to be embossed. Then I stamped a flower motif with clear embossing ink and clear embossing powder. After heat setting it, I blended my colours onto it. Then using a damp cloth I swiped the ink of the embossed areas showing the resist of the clear embossing! A great Tim Holtz technique that I love to use!

This swirl was stamped with white Dabber ink and also blended when the ink was dry. Also wiped the excess ink from the stamped image with a damp cloth.

The frame I am calling my Piece-de-Resistance!!! I really love how it turned out! I first blended my colours onto it, then I stamped the brick work image on. The absolute fun part comes with the random application of clear UTEE... while it is still warm, I dabbed some mist on to it, added some more UTEE and heat it again. Just love how the UTEE moves and shapes taking the colours on a ride!

The rest of the LO is just some basic tearing and layering and of course lots of distressing with some handmade flowers added to it all.

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