Life's too short for working

Thanks for joining me on my crafty journey. I'm now retired which gives me the chance to spend a lot more time indulging myself in my crafty habit!!! I'm part of four Design Teams and absolutely love the work I do with them. It's very exciting to get your work shown on TV and I never cease to get excited when a show is coming up. It's lovely to see what the team have produced. I appreciate all my followers on my blog and thank you all so much for following my journey.

Friday, 19 July 2013

Splodgeaway Favourite Technique

My favourite technique using Splodgeaway masks is embossing craft metal. Sometimes I cover the embossed metal with Acrylic paint and then take a lot of the paint off. This way the paint stays in the embossed bits of the metal.

On this occasion I decided to leave off the acrylic paint and have a clean look.

I made two embossed backgrounds and on the first card used a piece of ribbon and a Happy Birthday sentiment, this was then matted onto black card.

On the second card I added a piece of craft metal which was heat embossed in black and using an Oak Tree stamp. All the elements were then mounted on to 8 x 8 Kraft card.

I've added a photo to show how deep the pattern is when using the Splodgeaway masks as an embossing tool.