Soot Class

I have a card class today. I am teaching the soot technique.

It is like another one I did a couple years ago.  The technique is fun but a little challenging. The idea is that you hold a paper over a flame and get soot on it. Then you stamp your image with no ink. This lifts the soot off , Finally you seal it. I have learned the following hints from doing this before.

• I didn't have any luck with photo paper.  I have really loved using the Ultra Glossy cardstock from Paper Temptress. 
• Use a taper candle rather than a pillar. 
• Get the paper right down in the flame, pretty close to the wick. 

I will try and get some pictures at class with us in action! 


For the card here, the tree is an older stamp from Rubber Stampede. The pumpkins came from a scarecrow stamp from I Brake For Stamps. The embossed background is from Cuttlebug. The buttons were an embosslet from Stampin Up

Heard you were draggin'

I made this for a little boy who was recently in the hospital. The dragon is a Sizzix die I got at Sizzixoutlet.com.  It is a great site for bargains.

The paper that looks brow in the picture is shinny copper colored. I believe I got it from Paper Temptress. You should try out her paper if you haven't before. Nice stuff.

The words and design around them are from Stampin Up. The punched border is also from Stampin Up.

Blog Candy!!!!

Okay, I didn't quite make it by midnight Saturday...and I won't show you the card I worked so long and hard on today...at least not yet!  But I will offer the wonderful blog candy Patricia from Paper Temptress has provided!  She has provided a Silver Lustre Package . It is beautiful stuff.  My biggest problem using it is that I hate to cover it up with anything else! 

You can enter for a chance at this wonderful candy in three ways. 
1. Leave a comment on this post and tell me what you think you would use this lovely paper for.
2. Spread the news by telling another group, posting it on your blog, or telling a friend. Tell me in your comments how you spread the word and I will enter you in the drawing another time
3. You can become a follower of my blog.

So you can have up to three chances of winning.  I will draw a winner randomly on Christmas Day, Dec 25th.  Won't that be a great Christmas present if you win!

I am excited to be a great designer for Paper Temptress this month. I hope you will come by Paper Temptress Community and see my design.  It has bee posted here!

Leave a comment so you can have a chance at the blog candy!

Hugs
Faye

Snowy Stampscape

Earily this morning, before work, I made this card. It is a Stampscape style card. Some of the stamps are from Stampscape. Some are from other companies. I used a stamp pad I got from Tuesday Morning and a brayer to do the background.  After I did the stamping in black and green, I used a gel pen. to add the snow.  I did two of these.


When I trimmed the orignal picture to make the card, I had this piece of paper left with these two trees. They were too pretty to throw away so I designed this card so I could use them.  The papers I used for my stampscape images is from Paper Temptress.  It is the unltra glossy cardstock and I have to say I love working with it.

Elmo

Here is a quick card I did for my grandson. He loves Elmo right now. My husband and I found a Elmo stamp on clearance at Hobby Lobby in Utah. I colored Elmo with markers. I used Copics, Bics and Sharpie markes, in order to get the right colors.  He is on Pearl Glimmer paper from Paper Temptress. This is beautiful paper if you haven't tried it. I also did some Christmas tags with it that I will show later. The stamp is from Stampabilities. Th backgroud paper is from a pad called "Nonsense" by We R memory keepers. Be sure to keep an eye on my block.. Paper Temptress has offered to provide my blog with some amazing paper in December. Be sure to come back and see!