Monday, August 15, 2011



My sister found the Spellbinder Shapeabilities Antiques die cut set on sale for $6. She saw the key and thought of me, because I'm a sucker for Renaissance and ancient looking things. So, I ran it through twice, once to cut, once to emboss, and had a white paper punched key and lock. What to do? So many possibilities. I decided to pull out the inks. First, the embossed raised edges received copper, then silver inking. The silver got a little over done on the key, but the metallic sheen was pretty. Then, I found an Ink Dot, as it had large pores to the sponge. I dabbed along the keys, lightly, to create some worn effect. I backed the key hole with black paper. I was quite pleased with the effect. Check it out! That is just brown paper with a wood grain stamp on it, by the way.

Song Bird Birthday!

Hello everyone! Well, birthday card madness continues, and here is the latest!



Song Bird Birthday:

Supplies:
Cardstock; Die cuts: Spellbinder "Garden"; Stamps: bird, sheet music, sentiment; Ink; Punches: 3/4" and 1" circle, large and small music note; ribbon.

How To:
Stamp all stamp elements on appropiate colored card stock. Trim stamped sheet music, cut out aound bird and punch out saying with 3/4" circle punch. Die cut twig and punch out music notes and 1" circle. Snip ribbon to size. Adhere music stamped paper, then ribbon. Glue sentiment to 1" circle and attach large music note to side, adhere to ribbon. Adhere twig, bird, and little music notes. Tweet that!