Sew Creative Imperfection

Hello, my dear crafting friends! Irit is here again and this time with this altered chipboard spool made in my usual  vintage style.

Lots of  Creative Inspirations paints were used here: over the chipboard buttons, over the stamped hat, all around the glued tissue paper.  I mostly used Aquamarine and Chocolate, but then added some more blues and browns for the highlights.I also used Copper embossing powder over the plastic scissors to made them look a bit more vintage and  used Fine clear embossing powder with my stamped hat and dress form : it makes it easy to hand cut after the stamping.The background  stamped script was also embossed with the same Copper powder all over the spool.

This project was  web published in SNR July 2012 issue and now I can post it here too.

See you nest time with more painted inspiration!
Irit

Copper Snowflakes

Hello everyone! It's Holly posting today and I am sharing a Christmas card with y'all. Christmas?? It's spring-time! LOL Yup, I saw a fun challenge on the Jingle Belles blog and I was in love with the inspiration picture there. I just had to play along, and guess what? I now have one Christmas card ready for December!

I wanted to stick with that neutral color palette, but I needed a bit of oomph to make it pop. Instead of stamping in brown, I decided to emboss the snowflakes and sentiment with Copper embossing powder from Creative Inspirations Paint. I tried to use a brown cardstock layer, and then a copper cardstock layer, but they just didn't look right. More Copper embossing powder to the rescue! I embossed the layers with the same powder so everything would coordinate. You can see the awesome copper color in this picture below:

I purposely made this card CAS (Clean And Simple) and I didn't add any other embellishments. This card is perfect for mailing with just one postage stamp. Now I'm off to make a big stash of these in different colors - I'll be ready for Christmas this year! :-)