Have you flattened the soda pop top yet?

 
 

Supplies:
Stamp Set: Dapper Dad, Sweet Essentials
Ink: midnight muse, black stazon ink
Paper: Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Midnight Muse, White, brushed silver, Comfort Café DSP
Tools: Big Shot, honeycomb embossing folder, label framelits, 1" circle punch
Accessories: soda bottle caps, crystal effects, dimensionals

Tips: Stamp the watch with stazon and then use the circle punch to punch out the face.  No need to stamp the watch twice since you will cover the hole.  Open your big shot accessory pad all the way.  Put down one cutting pad and put a bottle camp UPSIDE DOWN and top it with the other cutting pad and run through.  Adhere the watch face to the bottle cap and then cover it with a generous amount of crystal effects.

soda pop tops #129388 $3.95

I fell in love with this card the second I saw it.  What an ingenious idea to flatten the large bottle cap and use on the watch from the Dapper Dad set.  We did this at my spring class last week.  You can't see it in the picture, but there is crystal effects on top of the face of the watch to make it look like glass.

Daddy's Day Bleach Technique

I always have a very hard time making a good Father's Day card for my Daddy. 
Can you see the bleach?

Supplies:
Stamp Set: Dapper Dad, Oh Hello, that word set :)
Paper: Vanilla, Basic Gray, Riding Hood Red
Ink: black stazon, basic gray, Bleach
Tools: Big Shot, oval framelits, square lattice embossing folder, occasions paper piercing template, paper piercing tool and mat, small heart punch, aquapainter
Accessories: dimensionals, cute clips

Bleach Technique: This is not a new technique by any stretch.  It's just one I rarely use.  Probably b/c I am lazy when I am stamping.  The bleach will lose it's effectiveness after a few days so test it first and you might need to refresh.  For the gray strip, I took a small stamp box and folded a paper towel down in it.  Then I poured bleach right on it to make my own ink pad.  Then, I filled up an aquapainter halfway (don't even need that much) and painted the argyle part of the shoe.  After you use the aquapainter (#103954), use the heat tool to watch it turn cream so fast.  Kinda fun. 



Try the bleach on all your favorite colors.  I'm dying to stamp the swallowtail in stazon and then color the inside with bleach.

I hope my daddy likes this card :)

On another note, I was right the other day about seeing a new photopolymer stamp set and here it is!  I will be getting this one.  I love these sassy sayings!  It's called Bombs Away Birthday.  #133411