Happy Birthday Princess

Tomorrow is my birthday and I am doing 2 give aways. There may be one more depending on how many people checkout my blog. I will be giving away the following Ranger Ink Products: A few bottles of Stickles the product that got me started using Ranger Ink. A Tim Holtz Distressed Ink and matching Distress Stickles bottle and one more bottle of Distressed Stickles, Perfect Pearls with two brushes, Perfect Pearl Pen and an Ancient Gold Embossing Powder. What do you need to do to win? Please leave a comment tomorrow. I will be showing off another card and you can leave your comment. Please refer people to my blog tomorrow. If they remember to let me know your name, you will get additional chances to win.

I have friends and family who like hand made cards but have no crafting desire at all and so for those that appreciate hand made cards, I will also be having a drawing to win 3 cards. A birthday card, a thank you card, and one more card. They may either leave a message in the comments section or send me an email letting me know that they checked out my blog. So once again, if you have friends and family that may not like crafting let them know about my card give away so they can have a chance to win. Also, make sure they tell me that you referred them b/c the more times your name is mentioned the more chance you have of winning.

This card was made using Ancient Gold Princess Embossing Powder. I have found that this Embossing Powder is the best to use for lettering. It is very very fine so it goes on nicely and melts and is not chunky like some of the other Embossing Powders. I also like it b/c it just has this delicate yet royal look to it once melted. I used several different Distress Inks for this card: Vintage photo, Victorian Velvet, Antique Linen and Forest Moss. Also I used SU scroll punch for the borders, SU oval punch, and various SU Stamps.

Faux Foil

On Saturday, I was playing around with some of my Ancient Gold Embossing Powders. I was really enjoying seeing the different effects the different embossing powders had on the paper. At some point I wanted to try Perfect Pearls in addition to the embossing powder. Above is Ancient Gold Antique Embossing Powder. I put water, a few drops of Old Paper Reinker and Gold Heirloom Perfect Pearls in a Mini Mister and shook the mister so everything would mix together. I then spritzed the paper with the Mini Mister mixture. The result was a foiled looking front.

Today I tried it again using different colors. I used Ancient - Roman Gold Embossing Powder. First I used an anti-static embossing cloth and then I stamped the image with Perfect Medium ink and tapped the embossing powder on top. Then I used a heating tool to melt the gold powder.

I decided to try making a foil looking card again. However, this time I wanted to try a different color so I mixed together water, Tatter Rose Reinker, and Inference Red Perfect Pearls in a Mini Misters. I then spritzed the paper with the mixture and the finished look is pink foil.

Here is the finished look. The tag "Best Wishes" was embossed with Ancient - Princess Gold Embossing Powder. I also stained it using Crushed Olive. I hope you check back again as more ideas are coming this way this week.