This months theme is spring and I just love spring. It's my favourite season of all. Where I used to live spring ment the perfect time to go visit our little cottage far up in the mountains, going skiing, ice fishing and ridning snowmobiles. And yes, digging holes in the snow, putting down raindeer hides and catching a tan. Now it's warm days, spring flowers, warm asphalt and long walks with the dogs. I love it! And best of all, no bugs.
 I made this card inspired by the soft spring colors and spring flowers. I embossed the flowers in copper embossing powder and colored them using AquaMarkers. 

I love the foil trend that is so popular right now and wanted to try the Fab Foil, since I don't have a laser printer I used the bonding powder and I think it looks great for my first try. It's very shiny and pretty! 
I hope you liked my spring inspiration. See you next month, I'm looking forward to seeing what you make for the challenge!
Supplies: Metallic Copper Embossing …

Hello my dear crafty friends! Irit is here again  with a small tutorial and  quite a big project. This time I am going to show you a bit of technique I used to make this altered book cover for my new art/memory journal.  The chipboard parts are Tando Creative kit- easy to use and to made your own  altered book. And this is a technique I used here: combo of stamping, heat embossing and painting , all in one. Step 1: Stamp a pattern over metallic  cardstock. (It works over real metal sheets too, but I was short of those).
Step 2: Heat emboss your stamped patterns withClear embossingpowder


Step 3: Paint the embossed cardstock with a mix of gold, copper and black acrylic paints. As you can see I use the cheap, craft store paints and not those fancy acid free paints for this cover. Wipe the paint until you have a thin layer  of it left over the stamped image and you like the color. If not- add more of the  paint you want to be seen .

Step 4 and the last: Those 4 squares here  were made just a…

H there!
Katarina here today with a short tutorial on how to make your own faux wax seals.

I love christmas, and I love to make cute cards and giftwrappings, and I L:O:V:E wax seals.. but I hate making them, the wax always ends up cracked, and since I´m a "headache girl" the smell isn´t that great eighter....
Now I have found a solution to this, and it´s a faux wax seal, using my favourite embossingpowders and a crafters sheet, or one of those teflon baking sheets (what ever they are called)....
just check out this video, and you can learn how to make your own wax seal in minutes... and they are flexible and will not crack on top of your project.. Great huh!!

Enjoy!



Have a happy crafty day!
//Katarina

Jen Matott here to share a Steampunk-themed project that started out as a card front and emerged into a wall hanging because I just couldn't stop myself from adding more and more!  I started with a shipboard base and used modeling paste through a Prima gear stencil. 

 I used Basically Bare's gears in chipboard and cardboard and applied VersaMark to them and added the metallic powders in Ultra High Gold and Regular Silver and Regular Copper.  These powders create such an amazing metallic surface that it appears to be real metal!  I also stamped a wing onto a wing chipboard piece and embossed the felt key with silver powder!  It gives it a very shimmery and flocked appearance!  The dressform is also Basically Bare and I peeled away the top layer and stamped VersaMark again to the raised areas and embossed Ultra High Gold and Regular Copper.

Here you can see that while the Ultra High Gold was wet, I added a bit of Black Glint to mix in.  Gives it an aged look don't you think?
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Jen here and it's my 20th high school reunion this weekend (and my 38th birthday;) and I thought as a tribute to those good times, I'd create a layout with my senior portrait from *gasp* 1992!
 My graduating class started posting photos from our time in high school on our Facebook page and I went digging for "old" photos... I found lots of fun and memorable ones.  There was no Facebook or email then... I guess it was a simpler time.  Can you imagine what we would have done with that technology?

This layout was fun to make!  I started with a woodgrain paper and added VersaMark ink through some punchinella and added WOW!  Bright white powder to it.  I love this powder... it's so opaque and bright!
 Next, I stamped a Basically Bare chipboard frame with VersaMark and used Bronze Metallic on it.  I added some more VersaMark and mixed Cotton Candy and Earthtone Olive to create a patina look to the frame.


 Underneath that fun frame, I layered a canvas page from Basically B…

Happy day, friends! Can you believe how quickly 2012 has passed? WOW! We're halfway through the year! I can't believe it's Summer in the U.S. I'm kicking off my boots and slipping on the sassier, open-toed heels. That's really where my fashion sense stops. I can wear all one color in fairly basic pieces, but then it's all about the bling. Since I'm this month's showcase designer, I brought that same love of shoes to paper. I used Suzy West's Pantry Collection - Paprika on the heel and I used Angel Wings and Neutral Ultra Shimmer on the insole. The stamp is from Suzy's Love Beyond All Measure set. 






Speaking of accessories, have you seen some of the things built for Steampunk? I happened upon a Steampunk convention once (next to a LEGO convention of all things). It was the most brilliant event! I was so impressed with the twist of Old and New. 

This month, Anne, brings us her touch of talent with Graphic 45's Steampunk Debutant. I absolutely ado…

I hope you had a fantastic weekend! I've got a layout to share with you this morning using more of my favorite  Wow Embossing Powders.
The chipboard accent to the right of my picture is from Twiddleybitz and is a two part design. I love the look of embossing on detailed chipboard. On the bottom piece, I covered it with Wow Embossing Powder Copper Regular. After it was heat-set, I stamped script from the Call Me Stamp set using Archival Ink. The top piece was embossed with the Suzy West Cotton Candy powder, and then was spritzed with Goosebumps, and added some Opaque White Regular to give the appearance of splashing waves.
Wow Embossing Powders: Suzy West Cotton Candy Metallic Copper Regular
Opaque White Regular Call Me Clear Stamp Set

Cheery Lynn Designs Dies:
Horizon Coved Rectangle Reflections Die
Mega Fanciful Flourish Stacker Flower #4 Stacker Flower #5 Pair of Ferns Medium Rose Judy's Blooms
Patterned Papers: Kaisercraft
Chipboard: Twiddleybitz
Cardstock: Worldwin Papers
Epiphany Crafts …