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. :-)