Some faux metal

This was such a quick and easy one to put together - and it gave me the chance to play with the faux metal technique - great for quick embellishments on those oh-so-hard masculine cards!

The stamp set used is the hostess set 'Riveting', one of the many benefits of hosting your own real-life or 'virtual' workshop - and this one fits our circle punches perfectly!

All I've done is covered some Very Vanilla cardstock with copper embossing powder and heated. I've done about 5 layers of this and then placed the stamp into the final layer while it was still warm. Lift it up, and voila! a faux metal image to use - punched out using SU! circle punches.

The rest of the card has used a paper from the Recollections pack, more Very Vanilla cardstock, choc chip ink and some grosgrain ribbons. The strip is popped up using Stampin' Dimensionals. All products used are Stampin' Up! and available through me at any time

Spring MINI Catalogue is all systems GO!

Yep dear patient kind wonderful readers - it's HERE! This is the cover for our wonderful Spring mini catalogue that is out - full of lots and lots of yummy stamp sets and accessories...the papers are just divine - and the punches *sigh* they are just SO useful!

If you don't yet have a copy of this and would like me to send you one - just email me, auntytraci@hotmail.com and I'll get one in the post to you that very same day - FREE!

The goodies in here are available for a limited time only - we can order them from now until the end of November - after that - they're gone

*sigh* it's just all so nice, I've had an awful time choosing what to get - I truly do want it all! And I thought I'd decided and then I start cruising blogs and galleries and find soooooo many more ideas for sets that I'm trying to resist!