Lovey-Dovey Mushrooms & a bit of sky?

A random lovey-dovey mushrooms card?

For some reason, I thought these two little mushrooms
needed to snuggle up next to each other.

I left the sentiment off, for now, hoping to use it
for any of this stuff: "Miss You" or "Love You"
or "Happy Anniversary" or even simply "Hi Friend!"

And I'm curious,
do you do hybrid?

It's the only type of card I seem to make lately.
(The mushrooms & the heat-embossed background are stamped
the sky is a digital image printed & stitched.)

1...the mushroom stamps: Cat's Pajamas stamp set "Blow"
2...free digi (a bit of sky-cropped from The Graphics Fairy)
3...cheap tricks:distressed heat embossing & a fringed mat...

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The 'shrooms are stamps from
this Cat's Pajamas stamp set:

They got gussied up this way:

1) Stamped in Night of Navy craft ink (SU)
2) Heat embossed in clear embossing powder
3) Coloured with Copic markers in shades of turquoise, brown, & beige.
4) Dotted with White Signo gel pen.
5) Cut out & stuck on the stitched sky background.

The sky background was made using this digital graphic
that I thought you might be able to use sometime for something...

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(from The Graphics Fairy)

...a bit of sky:



PDF on Acrobat here

...which is cropped from this castle image:



Courtesy of Karen-The Graphics Fairy
who has the best free digital things
& such generosity of spirit!
(Please credit & link Karen, if you use these.)


To download these as PNGs or JPEGS:

1) Click the picture you want & it will enlarge.
2) Then right click & select "save as PNG" (or as JPEG/all files)

or click the links to go to Acrobat to download the PDFs

more info on How to Download files types
& terms of use here

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(Old faves: Distressed heat embossing
& fringe-cut mat)



For lack of a better name, I call this heat emboss texture
'distressed heat embossing':

It uses regular old clear embossing powder. Here's how:

1) Stamp Hero Arts Antique Brocade in White pigment ink.
2) Sprinkle on some clear embossing powder.
3) Heat it with a heatgun until you see some areas get darker.

Variation: You can even colour over it with a copic marker to get a
coordinating bit of coloured embossed paper:



The dark brown band is made by colouring over the distress embossed
river rock cardstock with Copic Markers (Dark Bark & Black).

Fringe mat:



Just cut little slits in the mat for texture &
ruffle them a little with your finger to separate.
Cheap, quick, fun.

Hope your day is turning out to be a lovely one,

P.S. This post is pure unsolicited craft-y love. :-)