Fabulous technique

These cards use a combination of 2 techniques from the "Techniques Junkies" Feb/Mar 2008 Newsletter. The techniques are aged metal and penciled twinks. They were easy to do, but create such fabulous results.
For the aged metal background, I first embossed the metalic looking paper with my "CuttleBug". Next I slid black STAZON ink
over the embossing.

The image was outlined in watercolor pencil, then filled in with twinkling H2O's. After I did the fill in, I brought the wet Aqua brush across the penciled areas, dragging the color into the image. And ta da! A great looking card. Stamped image by "Stampin Up".

Bellas and Vino Italiano cards

See how different the same stamp can look. You can't see on the cards here, but I used PLAID' "Papier" glass finish paint on the wine glasses. It gives it a realistic look to the glass. Inside the card I printed on my computer sayings in Italian such as "Alla Salute"(cheers), "La Doce Vita"(the sweet life) and "Felice Compleanno"(Happy Birthday). The image was colored using Prismacolr pencils.









Here are my latest 2 Bellas, my chefabellas. Blue chefabella is mounted right on the recipe card on the card stock and the the other was mounted using pop dots. I liked the touch the recipe cards give to the chefabellas.