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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Malamute Birthday card

Hi everyone! Today is my DH's birthday and I made this card to give to him while we're up here in Alaska. I'm working, he's playing tourist.

I actually bought this stamp from Gray Wolf Graphic's because it is a Malamute. It looks a lot like Noah and my husband will get a kick out of this! I highlighted it with Copic markers.

Designer paper is from Sizzix little sizzles line that is no longer available. I used the tag die from Verve to center the sentiment and did a bit of hand cutting to layer the black on. Sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink.

Tied a bit of black and white gingham ribbon to the tag and were done. Kept it simple for DH. I hope to get some cool pictures of Alaska while I'm up here - it'll be for two weeks this time! UGH. Thank goodness for being able to schedule posts!

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