Grin - (Cards for the Soldiers) - Project Idea

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All very lovely and I am sure the soldiers will appreciate these cards!!

February 09, 2010

Grin - (Cards for the Soldiers)

These are cards that they can send home to their families.

SKETCH CHALLENGE SC 257 AT SplitCoastStampers.com

SUPPLIES:
Papers: Lime Dots, Dark Purple Cardstock, White Cardstock
-Cricut, Fabulous Finds Cartridge
-Stampology "between the lines" (Grin, found at Walmart)
-Copic Markers
-Black embossing powder, embossing ink pad, heat gun
-Old Paper Distress Ink
-Ink applicator tool
-Spellbinder Label 5
-Cuttlebug and Argyle Embossing Folder
-Inkadinkado clear stamps
-Adirondack Pines Ink Pad
-Blank white card 6.5 x 5 inches
-White Ink pad
-Colorbox ink tool

I started by heat embossing the "grin" stamp with black embossing powder, onto standard white cardstock. Embossing makes it nice and shiny and more professional looking versus using an ink stamp. Then I colored it in with Copic Markers. I then cut it out with a Spellbinder die cut. I stenciled with Old Paper distress ink.

Next, I cut out the background and the 2 rectangles (including their matting) using my Cricut and the Fab Finds cartridge. I assembled those items. The 2 triangles were embossing using the Argyle embossing folder (Cuttlebug). After that I used the Colorbox ink took to add white from an ink pad. To finish, I added the clear stamped { & }. I used pop dots on the spellbinder die cut.

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