Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder - Versatile Wednesday & Try it Thursday

Hi Stampers and Scrappers! It's the Thursday before the long weekend and I hope everyone has some fun plans ahead of them. I'll be taking the weekend off because I'll be going back and forth to Kitchener all weekend long. I'm hoping to have something exciting for you on Monday. Which reminds me, the new 2011-2012 Idea Book and Catalogue is coming out TOMORROW. Now we can all start the ordering frenzy!! Please let me know if you want me to reserve your own copy.

So on Wednesday, I was doing this project called Emboss Embossing. That's where you take a piece of cardstock and emboss it (I used my Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine item #113439 $132.95) and used the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder (item #120175 $10.95) to do it. Then I heat embossed it with clear emboss powder (item #109130 $5.95). I put a ribbon around it and stamped an image from the Animal Crackers stamp set (from the retired list THAT ENDS TODAY).

But then I got to thinking. Yeah, it looked cool. But what if I put it up a notch? This time instead of the clear embossing powder, I used black (item #109133 $5.95). I love the look of this!! I thought it was too good to stamp an image and hide the texture and look of the image of the Vintage Wallpaper. So I just put a black satin ribbon (item #117285 $12.25 for 15 yards) around it. There are just so many possibilities to how this card can be used (invitations, anniversary, etc.).

So the versatile part is the Big Shot - you can do so much with this handy dandy little machine. I try to use it every day because it adds so much to a project. And with the variety of dies that Stampin' Up offers, you will never run out of ideas. The try it part is using the embossing powders in different ways, in different colours. It takes less than five minutes for your projects to pop.

I hope everyone has a good, long weekend. Talk to you soon!