A Witchy Granite Cameo Card

Once again, I am taking part in the 31 Days of Halloween Event.  I just love October!  This event celebrates Halloween the entire month.  Here is my cameo witch card. It is one of my favorites from this catalog.  I find the cameo witch stencil a particularly brilliant design move by Stampendous.

I was able to achieve the granite look with a technique that I developed for this catalog.  The embossing was actually quite easy, and the coloring with pencils can be as simple or complicated as you like.  Here is how it was done:

MATERIALS

Framed Witch Stencil FMS4036
Mixed Media White Paper
Versafine in Smokey Gray
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Boardwalk
Prismacolor Pencils in Black, Grass Green, Apple Green, Olive Green, Dark Green, Imperial Violet, Periwinkle, Steel, Cool Grey in 10%, 20%, 30%, 50%, 70% and 90%
My Colors Card Stock in Black Magic and Grapevine
Zip Dry Glue
Manual Die Cut Machine
Rubber Embossing Mat

INSTRUCTIONS:

1) The card base is 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" folded on the side.
2)  Tap the Versafine all over the back of the stencil.
3)  Spray the back of the stencil with the Glimmer Mist.
4)  While the stencil is still wet, place it face down on the bed of the die cut machine.  Cover it with the mixed media paper, the embossing mat and the cutting mat.
5)  Run the stencil through the die cut machine.  Let dry.
6)  Color the image with the Prismacolors.  Enhance the embossing by creating extra highlights and shadows with the pencil colors.
7)  Assemble the card with Zip Dry.

I hope you like this technique.  It creates not only a granite look, but also a cool aged look with different colors.
Thanks for stopping by the blog.  Stampendous is featuring a little more Halloween today at the STAMPENDOUS BLOG.

Dreamweaver Art

Apparently, I have the world's SLOWEST mail service.  You see, Stampendous is having a blog hop with Clear Scraps that we, the Dreamweaver Specialists, could also get in on.  We were sent some Clear Scraps, but ours went out later than the rest of the team's.  EVERYONE got their goodies.  Except me........I still don't have them.  Therefore, today I am posting a project that does not include the Clear Scraps, but it does have an art theme.  Clear Scraps and Stampendous do encourage you to follow your art.....

For this card, I embossed the white card stock through my Cuttlebug Machine.  I used Stencil LJ 801 Splats and Stencil LG 761 Chunky Art Tools.  I placed them face down on the Cuttlebug A Plate, followed by the card stock, the Stamping Details Rubber Embossing Mat and two Cuttlebug B Plates.  I placed the corresponding stencil on top of the embossed card stock and used the Circus Splendor Ink Pad and my Black Soot Distress Ink Pad with my stencil brushes to add all the color.  I poured Stampendous Clear Embossing Powder over the image and heated it.  Wherever the pigment ink was still wet, it stuck and showed up glossy on the final image.

The silver portions were created by using Versamark with the stencil brush and covering it with Stampendous Silver Embossing Powder.  Of course, the Follow Your Art Stamp is from Stampendous and stamped with Versafine.  The ribbon is May Arts and the words and art supplies were raised with 3D foam.

The rest of the Dreamweaver Specialists are also posting today.  I included their links.  I also included a link to that blog hop that I mentioned earlier.

Stampendous Blog 

Louise Healy 

Pam Hornschu 

Laura Drahozal 

Lyn Bernatovich 

Kristine Reynolds 

Alison Heikkila

 Jamie Martin

Meanwhile, as I have mentioned, the rest of the team is posting a great blog hop with Clear Scraps.  Under this great banner, you will find the link to one of today's posts.....and a great way to start hopping for wonderful prizes:

CHECK OUT TODAY'S POSTS