Tool Time Tuesday

I don’t have a pic but I just have a generic heat tool. Heat embossing is what turned me to rubber stamping in the first place so I really liked this tool before I even learned what other cool effects it can create.

On this page I used my heat tool to emboss clear embossing powder over craft ink. I did this for the sit spin challenge that was to create a view master page and include flowers or something that would be thrown onto the ice while the skater is bowing. I’ve wanted to do a title like this for a while now ever since I saw it in a magazine a few months ago. I embossed the rose and have 6 different pictures in the viewmaster frame. I did not do any journaling but Lavinia's name and included the date in the title.

Stamps: Stipple Rose
Paper: Cameo Coral, Barely Banana, white cardstock for viewfinder
Ink: Barely Banana, Black Pen,
Extras: brad, ribbon

Tool Time Tuesday

This is my Stamp-a-ma-jig. I love it. I usually use it to position letters in titles of scrapbook pages. I waited a while to get mine because I focused on getting stamps and paper first. Once I first used it I realized it would have been perfect to have as a beginning stamper. There were so many times I did not ink the stamp properly and threw the image out because it didn’t look good. With the stamp-a-ma-jig, I can reink my stamp and place it in the exact image I stamped the first time. I still use it for that purpose but not as often as I would have if I had it at first. Another way I like to use mine is if I have a stamp that I want to put more than one color on. Usually markers are perfect for that occasion but since I don’t have any markers yet, the stamp-a-ma-jig works just fine.
Here are some projects I made for my best friend Carly who go married last year along with a close up of the stationary and the 4x4 notecards. I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp the rose red and the leaves green on the cards and stationary. I also used it to position the French Script Background since the stationary was larger than the background itself.

Scrapbook Sunday

Here is a layout I made for a 12x12 Double page spread scrapbooking swap. I finally finished them. I did 5 of these and will get 4 other layouts back. The colors are very bright. Too bright for my camera it seems. Every pic I took is blurry and the color is extremely off. I used SU’s Stipple Rose, Best Blossoms, and Letterpress Alphabet stamp sets, and holographic EP on the images and edges of the photo corner. The first page holds a 5x7 pic and the second page, 2 4x6s.