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Copper Southwest Pot (S1H)

  1. Stamp pot on a 3" square of black card stock and clear emboss
  2. Spread a little bit of Antique Gold Rub n Buff in a styrofoam plate and rub in a circle with your finger
  3. LIGHTLY rub the Rub n Buff over your image and card in a circular motion. Let your finger just graze the surface. If you rub too much, your image may blend into the background. You do want some of the black to show through
  4. Cut a 4 1/2" square of black card stock, and a 4 3/4" square of tan decorative paper (I used wallpaper).
  5. Glue the black to the decorative paper, then to piece of size H black card stock.
  6. Tear a small piece of beige paper and attach to the black card with foam dots.
  7. Attach embossed pot to beige paper with foam dots.
  8. Stamp lizard in bottom right corner of card and rub with copper Pearl-Ex

    Stamps: Rubber Stampede Spiral Gecko; Inkadinkado 5348M Southwest Pot

    Cre8it has a great ezine with wonderful projects, and they explain the "Antique Tooled Copper" technique in much more detail. Click here to go to the article.





2 Southwest Pots S2H)

  1. Cut two 2 1/2" squares from mat board.
  2. Rub turquoise ink on one and sprinkle with clear embossing powder. Heat til powder melts
  3. Repeat 4-5 times until tile looks glassy. Ink pot with copper ink and set aside
  4. Heat tile one more time til powder is molten; CAREFULLY stamp pot onto tile and leave there 20 seconds until powder hardens. (Stamp has a tendency to slide in the melted powder)
  5. Repeat with second tile, except cover with copper ink and stamp pot with turquoise ink
  6. Outline turquoise tile with copper metallic pen, and copper tile with turquoise metallic pen
  7. Set tiles aside
  8. Cut a piece of black card stock approx. 3 1/4" x 6 1/4" and edge with copper metallic pen
  9. Cut a piece of turquoise card stock approx. 4 1/8" x 7 1/8" and edge with copper pen
  10. Stamp southwest border in black ink on size H rust card stock
  11. Attach all layers as shown

    Stamps: Inkadinkado 5348M Southwest Pot

    I didn't have a border stamp so I used a computer generated border and printed on scrap rust card stock, then attached.

Pots & Beads (S3H)

  1. Stamp 3 pots on white card stock using pink, turquoise and sand ink, and clear emboss
  2. Carefully cut out pots as close to the embossing as you can
  3. Tap pink, turquoise and sand ink pads on size H cream card stock randomly
  4. Tear the edges of handmade paper
  5. Push a threaded needle from the underside of the paper and thread seed beads on. When you have enough, push needle back to underside and tie thread in knot. Repeat for as many strands as you want.
  6. Attach handmade paper to card with foam dots, and attach pots to paper with foam dots.

    Stamps: Inkadinkado 5348M Southwest Pot

    Based on a card by Sandy Schmidt Stamps: None

Blue Clay pot (S4H)

  1. Mix gold and dark blue Sculpey III clay and put through pasta machine or roll to about 1/8" thick
  2. Wipe stamp with water (so it will release from clay) and stamp into clay
  3. Carefully cut around image, leaving a little border
  4. Rub raised portions with gold pearl-ex
  5. Cut two small triangles from the same clay, and stamp with the pot. Rub with pearl-ex
  6. Bake according to directions and set aside
  7. Stamp pot several times on dark blue card stock using clear embossing ink, and clear emboss
  8. Wrinkle a small piece of gold tissue and tape to blue card
  9. Use E6000 glue to attach clay pieces to small piece of beige textured paper (I used wallpaper) and tape to gold piece.

    Stamps: Inkadinkado 5348M Southwest Pot

Grey Lizard (S5Q)

  1. Stamp lizard onto Q size grey card stock with clear embossing ink
  2. When almost dry, brush lightly with white Pearl Ex, or chalk (this gives a subtle background)
  3. Take a small piece of card stock, cut with deckle scissors.
  4. Rub clear embossing ink over entire piece, and silver emboss.
  5. Repeat 4 times.
  6. Ink lizard stamp with clear embossing ink.
  7. Heat piece one more time and while embossing powder still fluid, carefully stamp lizard and hold about 30 seconds. (Embossed piece is very slippery - be careful not to let the stamp slide)
  8. Use double sided tape to attach piece to card.
  9. Twist wire into suggested shape and pass through bead.
  10. Glue bead to card with E6000 adhesive

    Stamps: Rubber Stampede Spiral Gecko

    Based on a card by Sandi Schmidt

Small Cactus (S6Q)

  1. Cut piece of beige card stock to size S.
  2. Cut 1" wide piece of contrasting patterned paper (I used wallpaper) and glue to side of stock.
  3. Cut small piece of dark green stock and stamp cactus with copper ink
  4. Cut piece of dark green stock larger than cactus and put through crimper to corrugate
  5. Attach cactus to corrugated piece and then to beige card stock

    Stamps: Homemade Cactus Stamp

Lizard-Cactus (S7H)

  1. Take size H beige card stock.
  2. Tear edges of a piece of jade card stock about 1" narrower than beige stock
  3. Stamp lizard on jade card stock using clear embossing ink and sprinkle with clear embossing powder.
  4. Attach jade stock to beige stock
  5. Stamp cactus on salmon card stock and emboss with gold powder
  6. Cut piece with deckle scissors
  7. Use embossing pen to draw around edge and emboss with gold powder
  8. Cut piece of jade stock 3/8" larger than salmon stock, with deckle scissors and attach salmon cactus
  9. Cut diamond shaped gold card stock and put through crimper to corrugate
  10. Attach cactus piece to gold piece and then to card

    Stamps: Rubber Stampede Spiral Gecko; Homemade Cactus Stamp

Green Lizard (S8H)

  1. Stamp lizard in black ink on beige card stock
  2. Tear edges and sponge with med green ink
  3. Tear sides of a used dryer sheet (see Techniques-Dryer Sheets ) so edges are ragged - size a little larger than beige stock.
  4. Sponge dryer sheet with light green ink
  5. Attach dryer sheet to size H sage card stock
  6. Attach beige lizards to dryer sheet.

    Stamps: Rubber Stampede Spiral Gecko

    Based on a card by Joyce Weightman

 

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