Our new swap round starts this month. I think I picked a really good challenge for our group this round. We are playing Craft Roulette. So, what is Craft Roulette you ask? It is a weekly crafting challenge based on a spin of the wheel. The wheel chooses four parameters – project, colors, element, and random. There are 24 possibilities for each parameter, giving a combined total of 331,776 possibilities. Watch this short video for the full description of Craft Roulette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtp_JemHb9U.
Before I explained what Craft Roulette was, I asked each of the Swap It Gals who chose to play this round to pick a number between 1 and 200 (I had to pick a stopping point). The number each person chose correlates to an episode of Craft Roulette.
Our April episode is Episode No. 12. Here are the parameters: Project: Matchbook Card; Colors: Summer Daisy Garden; Element: Heat Embossing, and Random: Use Eyelets. Here is a link to the episode if you’d like to check it out for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpVBT4dI5rw.
Now that the set-up is out of the way, let’s see how I interrupted the parameters of Episode No. 12.
I started by making some backgrounds using Distress Ink in Spiced Marmalade and Fossilized Amber on Canson XL Mixed Media paper. I made the backgrounds using Vicki Boutin’s kissing technique – smooshing my ink onto a piece of acetate, spraying some water on it, and then lightly touching it to my paper. I did each color separately and drying the paper in between layers.
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While the paper dried, I chose a bright green card base out of Recollections Garden Greens pack in 110 lb. I cut the base at 4 1/2″ x 10 3/4″ vertically and scored it at 1″ and 6 1/4″.
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Next I prepped a spot for my sentiment. I decided I wanted to put my sentiment on the “matchbook” spot and found a stitched sentiment panel from the Unity Stamp Company Scalloped & Stitched Sentiment Nesting Die Set.
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I next worked on cutting my background pages down into layering panels of 4″ x 4 1/4″. I then stamped the beautiful daisies from Unity Stamp Company’s Keeping It Simple set. I used VersaFine Clair Nocturn Ink for the stamping.
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I added the stamped background layer to the card base and then moved on to the “eyelet” element from the parameters. I used my W R Memory Keepers Crop-A-Dile Eyelet Setter to punch and set white eyelets on the “matchbook” fold of the card base.
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I decided these cards should be birthday cards and used the “happy birthday” sentiment from Unity Stamp Company’s “Be Unstoppable” set. Here is where the heat embossing element came into play. I stamped the sentiment using VersaMark embossing ink and then poured on Black Ranger Super Fine Detail Embossing Powder.
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I’ll admit that I’m not the best at using embossing powder. This powder has been in my stash for quite a while and was clumpy and didn’t seem to raise all that much. And, I got stray powder everywhere on some of the sentiment strips. But . . . it’s handmade – right?!?!
Anyway . . . after getting all the sentiment strips stamped and embossed, I glued each down on the matchbook, centered between the eyelets. I’m pretty pleased with how the final card turned out!
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