ALCOHOL INK DIE CUT BIRTHDAY CARD

Hi Everyone,

I have a card today inspired by this card by Cathy of Cathy's Card Spot and her use of Alcohol inks combined with dry embossing.  Here is my take on this technique. I cut the Memory Box Kensington Branch  out of mirrored card stock and then painted with Alcohol inks.  I then dry embossed on Crafter's Companion Shimmering cardstockwith Spellbinders M-Bossabilities and THEN cut the Kensington Branch out of that (if you die cut and THEN emboss you will distort the negative image....ask me how I know!).  I then attached the card stock to PTI white card stock with Darice sparkle tape on the side (I love that stuff, it is soft, pliable and has the best sparkle).  Pearls added into the flower centers.  You might notice that I was a little haphazzard about what I punched out and what stayed in the butterfly parts of the die but I don't think it matters.

For the die cut sentiment, I first took the same sparkle tape and applied it to a scrap piece of the shimmer card stock.  I then cut the Serendipity word die and again out of Bazzill Mirrored gold card stock and off set slightly.   

For the inside I just cut and layered another piece of the die and used liquid pearls in flowers and corners of the soft pink card stock

ONLINE CARD CLASSES CLEAN AND SIMPLE DAY 4

Today's class was chocked full of ideas that I wanted to try.  Wow Ladies, you out did yourselves.  The first technique was the double embossing paste that Jocelyn Olson demonstrated.  Rather than watercolors, I first mixed my embossing paste with a few drops of Worn Lipstick re-inker and applied it over Simon Says Tiny Dots stencil over a pale pink cardstock from my stash.  After that was dry, I used translucent embossing paste over Crafter's Workshop mini climbing vine stencil just at the bottom.  Of course  I had no plan when I started this but was thinking of some kind of baby card.   I realized when all the embossing was dry that I wanted to add a colored image to the card and chose Penny Black Bundle of Joy since it was a framed image.  I did a quick, simple coloring using Copics and Wink of Stella clear on the pink flowers.  I then tried two additional techniques.  I covered a piece of the same card stock with the same mix of embossing paste and distress ink, let it dry and then ran it through my Big Shot with Serendipity Baby die.  This didn't work at all, even though it was dry, it stuck and pulled away from the embossing paste.  So I cut it again and then applied the embossing paste.  Also not easy on such a small piece.  But it worked.
The image and the die are applied with dimensional tape.

DISTRESS RESIST PINE BOUGH CARD

I started by stamping and embossing the pine bough in silver and then white.  I then used distress inks to create my background.  Spritzed and added die.  Pretty easy but when I attached to card base I didn't like the way the white looked so I removed the image and used the same silver embossing powder on the sides of the card base and then re-attached the image.

HERO ARTS BIG PINE BOUGH
PENNY BLACK LET IT SNOW DIE
BAZZILL MIRRORED SILVER CARDSTOCK
DISTRESS INKS
PERFECT PEARLS MISTER
SHIMMER SPRITZ FROST
FILIGREE SILVER EMBOSSING POWDER
STAMPENDOUS WHITE FINE EMBOSSING POWDER