Bleach Technique

Here's a card I made for my dad. I have a hard time making masculine looking cards but I loved this one so much I taught it at one of my classes.

After embossing the image in black I bleached out the parts I wanted to show up and then flicked bleach onto the rest to get the speckled look.

Then I roughed up the edges and tied linen thread around it.

Paint.NET (again!)

Whew!! What a crazy summer! It's almost over though so I've been thinking of getting back to scrapbooking and card making! Browsing the web for some new and inexpensive ways to enhance my favorite pastime, I came across a plug in for Paint.NET that I think is fantastic!

This plug in (download it here) renders your paint.NET image into a 3d work of art! I can't wait to scrapbook some of these. Here are some images that I quickly played with tonight. I started with the basic image, made it into a sphere, a cube, and a cylinder.

It was quick and easy and yet the controls are there to manipulate the image into just about any shape you want.

This one is a definite must have!!

My Squash Book

Here's a blast from the past.... a squash book!! I made this for my aunt a couple of years ago. Just looking at this makes me want to go and make another one. I love making these because they are really very easy and fun!

The hardest part is deciding where the pictures will go and getting pictures that actually look good when it's only a triangle.

Directions for this can be found at Splitcoaststampers.

Birthday "Hamburgers"

These are the cookies my daughter made my son for his birthday.

The "buns" are Nilla Wafers and the "patties" are fudge covered Oreos.

The french fries are actually ketchup flavored chips.

These turned out so awesome I just had to share!

Lacrosse Card

Here is the card I made for my son's birthday. He loves lacrosse so this seemed perfect for him.

The ovals and silhouette I cut with my Cricut using Sure Cuts A Lot software. The lacrosse stick came from the Eyelet Outlet. I embossed the background with my Cuttlebug.

To get the image, I googled lacrosse silhouette. After it was cut, I removed the lacrosse stick he was holding so I could use the lacrosse brad.

Birthday Card

I really like the way this card turned out. The scallops were cut on my cricut and the stamps are from Stampin Up!. I can't remember who the paper is by.

Mirror Image

I love this technique. It is super easy and looks great!!

All you need are your stamps, ink, paper, and a piece of acetate (overhead transparencies).

Stamp your image on your cardstock, reink and stamp on the acetate.

Turn the acetate over (so the ink is down), link up with the image you stamped on the cardstock, carefully place the acetate down and gently rub.

You get a perfect mirror image!!

When I colored this one I used a light touch for the snowmen on the ice.

Hope these are clear enough directions for you.