grunge metal birthday

Hello. Played around with distress glaze and crayons after TH's live today. Here is what I ended up with.

I used Sizzix foil adhesive sheet and ran it through the 3D texture fade foundry embossing folder. Next I covered it with collage medium, sprinkled on distress glaze in cracked pistachio, antique linen and broken china. Heat embossed it very carefully (it got really hot) and then ran black soot distress crayon all over it. Did the smudge with the brush, came back with my fingers and baby wipe, to build it up and take it off.....LOL. I love how it came out. I also really like how there are bare spots where the embossing powder did stick to. 

Birthday sentiment is from Poppy stamps and I heat embossed it in silver onto the metallic teal cardstock from TH.  

I had a lot of fun playing around with this. I also did a strip of sheet metal tape doing the same technique and it equally came out cool looking. Just be very careful when heat embossing! 

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Birthday wishes

Hello. Playing in the Freshly Made Sketch #443 today. I created the back ground a while ago and it's just been sitting in my stash waiting for me to do something with it. I brushed on some collage medium onto a piece of 80 lb Neenah cardstock and let it dry. Then I spritzed on some mermaid lagoon oxide spray. I like how it splattered onto the paper, so I left it. 

So, I ended up cutting it up to use for the back ground of this card sketch. It kind of reminded me of a splash of water as the dragonfly landed on it.  

Dragonfly die is from Stampin Up! I cut out a piece of teal velum and added some wink of stella to it. Once it was dry, I stuck it onto the back of the silver dragonfly outline. Birthday sentiment is from Studio Katia.

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Follow your dreams

Hi everyone. It's time for another challenge over at The House That Stamps Built. This week our challenge is the use the following graphic.

Stuck with a tag shape for this weeks Tic-Tac-Toe challenge - non standard shape, masculine and stitching. The huge tag die is from Mama Elephant. I was still playing around with distress crayons. The black stripes are done with a stencil and black soot distress ink. 

I used the script background stamp in vintage photo archival ink, the compass and sentiment are stamped in jet black archival ink. 

  

There's a new challenge every week over at  The House That Stamps Built, and you don't have to use Repeat Impressions stamps to link up or win. Also, for my blog readers: Enjoy the 10% discount code to the Repeat Impressions Store posted on the sidebar.

One lucky person will win a $25 Repeat Impressions Gift Certificate on the first Wednesday of every month – Good luck!

Also, check out our Rock Star blogs to see what they did with the challenge.

Donna    Esther    Heather   Joy   Shirley   Patti

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Tag you're it! DCC challenge

Hi everyone. It's time for another challenge over at The House That Stamps Built. This week our it is my choice for designer choice challenge and I chose - Tag you're it!

I used distress crayons and stencils to create the background. Then added the dragonfly, butterfly and sentiment. Layered it in black and added a gingham ribbon tie. Tag die is from MFT.

There's a new challenge every week over at  The House That Stamps Built, and you don't have to use Repeat Impressions stamps to link up or win. Also, for my blog readers: Enjoy the 10% discount code to the Repeat Impressions Store posted on the sidebar.

One lucky person will win a $25 Repeat Impressions Gift Certificate on the first Wednesday of every month – Good luck!

Also, check out our Rock Star blogs to see what they did with the challenge.

Donna    Esther    Heather   Joy   Shirley   Patti

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

http://www.repeatimpressions.com/

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Project of the week - upcycling for a masculine card

Hello, it's my turn to pick the project of the week and this go around I've decided to do a bit of upcycling.  So, here is the definition I found on the subject.

Upcycling:

Upcycling, also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless and/or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value.

I saved this paper bag and cut it down to use as a back drop on the card below.

To obtain additional texture on this, I crumbled up the paper bag, unrolled it and then used vintage photo distress ink direct to paper to bring out some of the creases. I then adhered it onto a piece of white cardstock using Distress Collage Medium in vintage. The sheet music stamp was used for the next layer. I tore the cardstock and distressed it a bit too, then painted on some more collage medium. The canvas heart was left over from last weeks card, so I stuck that on here with another die cut for added interest. The vertical "happy birthday" sentiment is stamped onto the back of the paper bag (plain side) and layered with dark brown cardstock. 

The collage medium in vintage brown was really fun to work with. Great glue to get all the bits and pieces onto the card. 

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