birthday wishes - pcpcuttlebug#83

birthday wishes - PaperCraftPlanet Cuttlebug-ers Challenge #83 - emboss with chipboard. Below is a little slide show of what I did to create this card.

My Cuttlebug sandwich A plate, B plate, chipboard, cardstock, tan mat, and B plate. Then I ran it through my 'bug'.

This is the a pic of the imprint that was left on my tan mat after I embossed the white cardstock. (Not to worry it's not permanent).

Then I took a dauber and smudged black ink on the peaks and valleys.

 I put it through my 'bug' with the Top Note die and cut the embossed image and a piece of black cardstock. I trimmed around the embossed piece. Then I matted it onto the black. I matted a pieces of grey, yellow and black behind that. I used the star and heart chipboard pieces as embellishments with a stamped butterfly and a rhinestone flower.

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Betty aka ZacksNana

Lucky Stars! a tutorial...

Lucky Stars - a tutoiral...

Given the recent rage of creating your own embossing folders for use with your Cuttlebug. Here's something relatively simple I created using just PaintShoPro and my printer. In PSP I just clicked on new and started a new image (for my purposes I used 8.5 x 11 inches). I clicked on tools and used the shapes tool with a predesigned star image. I then chose the print multiples option so I could resize the star. The 1st star image I placed was 2.5 x 2.5 inches. Then I placed new stars in 1/2 inch increments until I had 5 stars on my 8.5 x 11 inch base. Then I hit print. They were printed out on a heavy weight (thick) cardstock. Then I cut them all out including the centers.

Then to the Cuttlebug I went. My sandwich was A plate, B plate, stars, cardstock to be embossed, tan matte, B plate, Tim Holtz Grunge Board. I ran this sandwich through and Voila I had star embossed cardstock. I used some chocolate Close to my Heart distressing ink to show the pattern. Then I colored with my PermaPague copper marker. 

I hope my little tutorial helps you. If you try my technique I'd sure love to hear about you results.

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T%dles Peeps!

Betty aka ZacksNana