Fun with embossing...

So the other day I was looking for something special in my local

craft store and came upon the markdown area.  I found

a cute frame and some kraft flowers each for $1 so I thought

lets see what i have at home and what i can put together.

And I have time to do something so this is what I made.

To make the flower frame 

 I used some scraps of kraft paper I had and drew out

the shape of the frame and embossed it with my

big Spellbinders M-bossabilites folder called Garden Lattice.

This I glued down and let it dry so I could sand the edges.

And then I inked around all of it with my 

chalk ink from Tsukineko... love the gingerbread color!

One very cool thing about their folders is that you get 2

designs in one folder.. You just flip it the other way and

the other design is on the other side.  It's really neat 

and it saves lots and lots of space.... 

A really fun trick to making the designs pop is to just 

take a chalk ink and run it carefully over the top so that

the designs are nice and shaded.  This was the perfect

pattern to use and I added black lace with scor-tape to the

outside and then a thin band of black printed cardstock

on the inside rim with scor tape.  The ribbon is black

seam binding and I inked the sale flowers that I got to match

and tucked in some leaves to fill in the gaps.  It needed 

just a thin piece of ribbon on the inside edge and that was

all and I am really happy with the way it came out.

It's kind of vintage looking western and I really love

all the texture that it has... I am not a flat paper kind of

gal and I think that is why I love Spellbinders so much..

It's pretty much in my blood now so you will always

see something from their amazing line of craft dies and things.

Hope you all have a great Sunday!!

Hugs,  Teresa