Hetty bugs a can

For all of you who love to try metal in their embossing folders, I have a tip for you today: Go shopping!

When you go to the supermarket and do your regular shopping, take another look at the soda cans. Some have beautiful colors (and even the drinks inside are nice too!!) . When you are home and have finished your drink, take some garden scissors and cut of the top and the bottom of the can. Now you can flatten te metal and lay it inside your embossing folder.You can also use the metal side (inner side of the can), but for the double metal embossing, the outside is great. Once you have run it trough the cuttlebug, you take some sandpaper and sand your metal before you run it trough the cuttlebug again with another folder. I used my asian flowers and swiss dots folder for this one. And one more tip: the ceapest cans work the best, for their metal is much softer!

Papers and stamps for this card are all by Club Scrap. It is from the May Blossom collection.

There is more inspiration on my Craftchaos Blog:

http://craftchaos.blogspot.com/2010/05/tj-blog-post.html

Hetty is in the mood for Easter

As Easter is around the corner (and this year it is also my birthday) I have been planning some blog candy on my own blog.

So not only can you win my card with glassy embossing artwork, but also the bracelet you see the Easter Bunny is holding, so please after reading here hop over to my Craftcaosblog to leave a comment .

This was one of the techniques I hadn't tried yet from the last newsletter and because the new one is around the corner (can't wait to see it in print) I picked one i did not do. I must confess it is just too easy and with a wonderful result. I did a few backgrounds, so over the group you will see some more in the next few days.

All the papers are from Club Scrap, the chocolate bunny and the sentiment are by Stampin Up! and the egg is by Michael Strong. On the bracelet I used Mike's mini egg on shrink plastic.

Glassy Embossing - February-March 2010 TJ

This just a fun card to make, plain and simple. The animal stamps are from Stampin' Up and the background stamp is from Cornish Heritage Farms. I used the Burnished Background technique as well to add some definition to the background stamped area. Such an easy technique to use -- and what a difference it makes. The flowered piece of designer background paper is where you see the Glassy Embossing technique applied. It adds just the right touch to this whimsical card. The ground is applied direct to paper from several ink pads. I find that the small spots are the easiest to use when using the Direct to Paper technique. I used my own cloud template and sponged pale blue ink for the sky. All the animals were colored with my copics.

I am thinking Happy Spring thoughts even though the snow outside my door - still in mounds - does not look Spring! Surely, Spring is on the way! So happy Spring everyone!

Judy Jackson