Organizing My Embossing Powders.

 I was playing with some new embossing powders this morning and I had the brilliant idea to categorize them like I did my Copic Markers.

 

The first step was to punch some tags from Bristol paper.  Then I punched the holes in the top of the tags using my big bite.  Then I took my Tim Holtz Distress Embossing ink and covered about half the tag with ink by pressing down and the smearing it from side to side.  I checked to make sure the tag was covered with a good coat of embossing ink.

 

 

Then I covered the card in emossing powder over a piece of paper.  I tapped off the excess and used a dry paint brush to remove the powder from areas on the card where I did not want it.  Then I used my heat tool to activate the powder.

 

I am so glad I did this because I didn't realize the different textures of embossing powder.  I thought they all had an enameled look.....I was wrong.  The Tim Holtz Distress Powders tend to have a rough patchy texture.  For instance "Black Soot" reminds me of how the roof of a house would appear.  The Stampendous and Recollections brands tend to have an enameled appearance.  Although, Recollections "Silver" had the look of crinkled aluminum foil.  Stampendous "Gold Tinsel" has a very glittery look to it.  The large tag at the bottom is what started this project.  I took a Perfect Medium pen and rubbed a line, added embossing powder and heat embossed.  While I was playing I thought, how am I going to remember what these look like and bam, I remembered the tag system.

I put them on a key ring, sorted by manufacturer.  Now I have a good reference for choosing a powder.  I love it!!!!

While Visiting My Sister...

 This is the little binder that my sister made for me while I was visiting her.  I added the lace down the side and two rose buttons.  You can see her book HERE.

 This is the inside of the binder.  It holds all of my labels for my Tim Holtz Dies.  Now I have all of them in one nice neat place.  Now I can reference a picture of the dies and go to  my shelf and grab the die I want.  It sure beats keeping them in the original packaging and fighting the packaging every time I wanted to use them.

I was thinking of putting this little lady from the Graphic 45, Ladies Diary paper, on the front of my book.  I cut her out and covered her in Glossy Accents.  She isn't quite try yet so she still looks a little murky.  However, I am not happy with how she looks so far.  There are a lot of air bubbles.  I'll let it dry over night and decide in the morning weather to use it or not.

This is the newly acquired little shelf that I added to my room, the one to the right of the drawers.  They hold all of my dies.  Behind my computer are the wood shelves that my husband made for me to store my Copic markers.  Eventually I will paint them white but I was too excited to use them.  I love them and the top makes more room to store my Distress ink pads.

My sister and I discovered a new method for a faux copper patina look.  We made the clock face and embossed it while I was visiting her.  I added the clock to my journal and made this page.  I gessoed the paper and then painted it with Luminarte Silks Acrylic Glaze, Nutmeg.  I stamped the background using a variety of stamps from my collection.  I stenciled a clock face and clock hands using Ferro Graphite metal.  I glued the clock face to the page and added patches of acrylic paint dauber "Pool" to pick up the patina of the copper clock face.  Now every time I look at this page I will be reminded of the fun I had while visiting my sister.

A Little Organization.

I decided that I needed to do a little organizing of my stash.  So I pulled out a shelf that my husband made for my son, to store his DVD's.  My son has since moved out and the shelf has been sitting in the garage collecting dust.  The original plan (for me) was to paint it white to match the other accessories in my room, but I just can't get myself to paint over the beautifully stained oak.  So, instead of staying in procrastination mode, I decided to use it "as is" and set it on top of an antique table in my craft room.

The table top is a little warped.  If you look real close, you can see the cardboard that I used to shim the bottom right side of the shelf, to stop it from wobbling.  Also, you can see the carpet squares that are intended to be used for the room (more procrastination).

 This is a close up of the top two shelves.  You can see my Tim Holtz dies on the left and some of my embossing folders on the right.

This is a picture of the bottom two selves.  The bottom shelf holds my cricut cartridges and the DVD cases that I use to store my loose stamps in.  I love it.  Now I can see all my stamps, which will help when I am working on projects.  I didn't realize I had as many stamps as I did!