Happy Monday...

Sorry I wasn't around much this weekend. We had my Son's Sixth Birthday party on Sunday and I had to get everything together for it and I am planning on making some cupcakes tomorrow to take to his school on Wednesday his actual birthday. But in honor of his birthday I thought I might share another quick tutorial... Ever wonder if there was a way to make your own scalloped edge without those expensive punches... or maybe you only have the solid shapes and no scallops... Well I only have one set of nestablitlies so far and I sometimes need a scalloped edge for a frame on an image like this card...



Well here is a quick way to make your own...

First you will need a small corner rounder... I used Stampin Up's 3/16th corner rounder here.. and two ovals.. One has my main image the other is the next size larger.

Carefully remove your guard from the punch like so...

Now that your guard is removed take your oval and place it in the punch flush. Begin punching around your oval...

It will begin looking like this. Line up each punch with the following punch and continue going around...


After going all the way round you will end up with a scalloped shape. Here I had a scalloped oval to back my main image for my card.



Now you can make your own scalloped shapes for your cards too. Hope you all have a blessed Monday...

Supplies:
Stamps: Retired Madonna and Child stamp set, retired french script background
Cardstock: taken with Teal, whisper white, basic black
Ink: stazon black, taken with teal, craft white
Accessories: white ep, watercolor crayons, corner rounder, oval nestablities, aquapainter

Faux Metal Tutorial....

This is my first time writing my own tutorial but after posting my faux metal post I felt that their might be a few people that come to my blog and would not know what exactly I am talking about so here goes.....


First off you will need the following in supplies:
A versaMark pad, a heat gun, Silver embossing powder( gold or bronze may be used also), a piece of scrap cardstock( this is a great way to get rid of those extra pieces laying around), a shape punch( the one I am using is Stampin Up's designer label punch), a stamp image.




1.
Place cardstock into the versa mark....

Press firmly into the pad so that you cover the entire piece with versamark.

2. next you want to grab a piece of printer paper or a powder pal. Place cardstock piece versamark side facing up on your paper or powder pal.

Cover it with embossing powder. Tap off excess powder onto paper or powder pal.

It should look like this once you have taped off the powder.

3. grab your heat gun and begin to heat up the paper....

It will start to look like this... and after it has all melt it will look like this...


4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you get a piece that should look like this....


5. Take your stamp and press it into the versamark pad to keep it from sticking to the paper....

While your paper is still hot... If it has cooled take your heat gun and heat it up for a few... take your inked up stamp and press it into the paper. When you lift up you will have a image somewhat like this...


6. Take your shape cutter and place your faux metal into it. Line it up so you can see the image.

And then punch your image out. It should look like this...


7. Place on your desired project...

Supplies for card: Buckaroo blue ink, soft sky ink, versa mark, Blue Bayou textured cardstock, whisper white cardstock, whisper white taffeta ribbon, silver embossing powder, party punch stamp set, soft swirls BG, Sliegh Bells Ring stamp set, Aida Cloth BG.