Unscripted Sketches 251 Congratulations

Good Morning and happy Saturday again,

I think Saturday mornings have turned into my favorite day of the week and let me tell you why.  When I woke up this morning, after making coffee, I opened my twitter feed and there was a tweet from Susan over at Unscripted Sketches talking about the new Sketch #251 for this week.  Of course I had to check it out since I played along last week and had a great time doing it.  I saw the new sketch and was inspired by a card Billie made.

You will have to go over there to see which one I'm talking about.  Anyway, it gave me an idea, so off to my embellishment stash of resin and paperclay items I've made (since my goal is to use them up first before making anything new) and I found exactly what I was looking for.

I had made this star last year using my Creative Paperclay.  It's an airdry clay and so easy to work with.

I painted it with red, white and blue acrylic paints and then sanded it with some 

sandpaper to weather it.  I loved how it turned out.  

Actually I had make about a dozen of them and have most of them in my stash.  

Why you ask?  Because I can never just make one of anything, LOL.  Since I work backwards, I had to find some paper to go with the star and found the perfect paper in my scrap drawer.  No need to cut up any new sheets (another goal of mine, use up what I have for scraps first).

One of the newest products over at Amazing Crafting Products is Alumidust.  It comes in many colors and I just happen to have a container of the Deep Red.  As you know I am on the Amazing Mold Putty design team and am fortunate to have been given some of the Alumidusts, but  I really didn't know much about them.  So after doing some research I came up with this: take some of your CLEAR embossing powder and a tiny scoop of the Alumidust and mix.  Then just stamp your image, sprinkle your mixed embossing powder over your image, shake off and heat with your heat gun.  You just made your own colored embossing powder.  LOVE IT!  Now I did use a black inkpad, but you can really see the shimmer the deep red alumidust gives it and combined with the black ink it matches the striped paper perfectly! 

Isn't that just gorgeous?  I've seen colored embossing powders at Michaels and such, but they are kinda spendy (for me anyway).  Now I can color my own with the clear embossing powder I already have and alumidust (which comes in soooo many colors) and make just enough for what I need it for instead of purchasing a full container of a color I may never use again??? 

And here is my finished card for the challenge at Unscripted Sketches #251.  Literally this card took me 5 minutes to make but I love it and I know I can always use a Congrats card!

Oh by the way, I also made Top 3 last week over at Unscripted Sketches.  I was thrilled when I read that.  

That's another reason I am thrilled for this Saturday morning!

If you missed my card last week, click here and it will take you to the post.

Now I hope I've inspired you to head over to Unscripted Sketches and try your hand at the challenge.

By the way, if you are here for my Day 3 of Frog Dog Studios post, click here or scroll down.

As always, have a great day and God Bless!

Unscripted Sketches 250 Thank You card

Good morning and happy Saturday!

Today was supposed to be my sleep in until my body wakes me morning and do absolutely NOTHING!  I've been crafting up a storm this entire week getting ready for an upcoming event and cannot wait to share it with all of you, but you will have to wait a bit yet!  I love teasers...

When I did wake up at 7:23 a.m. I was pretty amazed that I slept in almost a full 1 1/2 than when I normally wake up.  I got up, made coffee and decided to check in on facebook.  BIG mistake...or maybe not.  I found a post by Susan who is my leader over at Amazing Mold Putty and she mentioned that Unscripted Sketches had it's Saturday sketch up.

I don't know why, but it totally made me want to create a card with it.  So, taking my coffee I headed to my craft room and started looking for inspiration.  I have a 12 x 12 container with all sorts of unfinished or partially finished resin pieces in it and I've made it my goal to USE them and make something with them.  Whether it's a card, layout or a mixed media project, I've got to use them up.  I found this frame that I had poured a while ago and inspiration struck immediately.  The frame was made with a mold using the Amazing Mold Putty, poured with Amazing Casting Resin and Copper Alumilite metallic powder.

I pulled out my Alumidust in Deep Purple and Lt. Green and began working... 

Just dip your dry paint brush in the powder, highlight the area you want covered, spray with water and set with your heat gun!  EASY and no mess. 

I love the shimmer that it gives it. 

I did the same exact thing with the Bronze Alumidust on a piece of white card stock and after setting it with my heat gun I stamped my sentiment with black Stazon directly over the top of it. 

Then I traced around the frame and cut it out.  I also added a heart rhinestone right over the top of my "stamped" heart for that needed bling I always have to have. 

Some quick dry glue to the back of the frame and clamped with my chip bag clamps all from the Dollar Tree, hehehe and it can sit and set up for a minute. 

Now, another one of my goals is to use up some of my store bought embellishments.  Seriously people, I could open my own craft store with all the stuff I have.  I have a big problem when it comes to hoarding crafting supplies, but with that said, I always do have that perfect item. 

So I found these Iron On Rhinestuds from a clearance bin...is it possible to iron on paper?  

Let's try...I set my iron (which I had to ask hubby where it was 

since I do not iron anything; he does. What a good man!) 

to wool 5 setting and following the package directions began to iron the studs directly onto my paper. 

IT WORKS!  

Now, back to my stash of resin embellishments, I needed a butterfly and I'm sure I had one or two or three...When I pour molds and I have extra resin, I will pour molds that I have in my stash to not waste the resin.  That's why I have so many embellishments.  

Maybe I should figure out how  NOT to OVER MIX resin. 

I even found a purple butterfly, but that really isn't unusual because purple is my favorite color.

I highlighted the body and a bit here and there with a black sharpie.  Sharpies work fabulous on resin! 

I glued my butterfly next to the rhinestone studs and 

PERFECT match. 

Isn't that just the cutest Thank You card?  I say you can never have too many of them, so I might have to do this again and again using different color paper.  I'm really thrilled with how this card turned out.

Now, if I've inspired you to create a card using this week's sketch from Unscripted Sketches, I've done my job for the day!  

As always, have a great day and God Bless!