Bow-Easy has landed

You might remember my post about the Bow-Easy bow making tool a while ago. I've just heard that Jenny from Stamp Antics has them in stock at the moment and can ship them Australia-wide ($9-95 incl postage!). Give her a call at the shop (07 3393 3022) or send her an email and she'll be happy to help you out. Jenny has asked me to demo the Bow-Easy at the Australasian Scrapbooking & Papercraft Expo (Brisbane Convention Centre -Queen's Birthday weekend 7-9 June). So if you'd like to see how to use it first hand, stop by the Stamp Antics stand....

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Sanded stars

Here's another idea for distressing Core'dinations card - place a chipboard shape underneath the card and hold it firmly in place whilst rubbing the surface with sandpaper. This works really well with the colours from the Black Magic Collection. Here I've used a star from Making Memories but it reminds me of starfish. Here's a closeup of the sandpapered star. The base card is the same coloured cardstock which I sponged with a slightly darker ink. And the finished card with some embellishments. The sand dollar is a stamp from Stampington & Co which I pressed into Delight Air Dry Modelling Compound and the starfish is a mould I cast in Vanilla Sculpey. ...

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Distress away

I'm having loads of fun playing with the Core'dinations card stock. Having run the Hocus Pocus card through the Cuttlebug, I started thinking about other ways it could be distressed. So here, I've lightly crumpled it and then sandpapered the ridges. This piece is from the Spell Caster Collection. But I didn't stop there - I also rubbed and inkpad across some of the ridges just to add a little more interest. There seems to be a slightly glossy finish to the Core'dinations card stock and my usually trusty Encore! gold inkpad seemed to smudge so I used Brilliance Galaxy Gold to highlight. Here's the finished piece with a few gold highlights. I used it as the background on a card I submitted to a challenge, so that card is under wraps at the moment but check back later and I'll post a different card using the same technique. This post edited 31/5/08: I've just had word that the card I made this background for was published in the June issue of Vamp Stamp Ne......

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