Saturday, October 13, 2012

Core'dinations Comes Calling

Eeeekk!  It's Mumeek!  And, he's surrounded by some seriously goofy Jack-O-Lantern friends.  As I'm sure you already know, there's a blog collaboration between Stampendous and Core'dinations this week and we've have a great time playing with their paper and they've played with our stamps!  It's been a win/win for all!  Speaking of winning, if you comment on my blog, you're entered to win a prize.  If you don't comment, you won't win.  You should have landed here from Kristine's blog.  And here's my card:



I'm going to show you the card in two different lighting situations, this is because of the embossing powder I used and I want you to get the full effect.



Do you see the difference?  Isn't that embossing powder just yummy!?  Here's an even closer look:



I love this embossing powder!  This was so much fun to do.  My Core'dinations papers, both from the Tim Holtz Distressed Collection, are Black Soot and Spiced Marmalade.  That's right!  Core'dinations has a great collection of papers in most of the Tim Holtz Distress Ink colors.  This makes it so easy to coordinate your paper and ink.  Anyway, I took my piece of Black Soot and ran it through my Cuttlebug using a Cuttlebug folder of Jack-O-Lanterns.  Rather than using the embossed side of the paper, I used the debossed side, inked the inside of each Jack-O-Lantern with my VersaMark pen and then embossed with Carnelian Pearluster embossing powder from Stampendous.  Next, I used the Versamark pen inside the leaves and pumpkin stems and embossed with Jade Pearluster embossing powder also from Stampendous.  Once they were all embossed on the debossed side (still following?), I set about doing some light sanding.  The sanding is much more noticeable in the first picture.  I attached this piece to my Spiced Marmalade card base and added my ribbon and bow.  I set this aside and stamped my image on Neenah, colored it with Copics and then added some Tim Holtz distress ink in Black Soot to the edges.  I layered my image on a smaller mat of the Spiced Marmalade and attached it to my card base with pop-dots.  And there you have it!

Here's the complete blog hop list in case you've lost your way or are just starting with my blog.  If you splashed down here from Kristine, then your next stop is at Mary Dawn's blog.  Don't forget to comment if you want a chance to win a prize.

Lea Kimmel (that's me!)

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see you again soon!  Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,
Lea

26 comments:

  1. Fun card! Love your technique and thanks for sharing the how to!

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  2. Awesome! Love how you used the debossed side. It made a more dramatic effect. Thanks for sharing the items you used to create this fun card. I'll be following and will be back to check out more of your blog. Have a Kookie & Spookie October!
    Happily Scrapbooking & Crafting my Memories~Sandra V.
    http://OhMyScraps2U.blogspot.com

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  3. Love the card. Cool effect from the embossing powder.

    craftymom205 at yahoo dot com

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  4. The mummy is adorable and that background with the colored pumpkins is wow!

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  5. Very cool effect embossing on the debossed side.

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  6. What a great idea, love the embossing.

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  7. Wonderful card. Love Mumeek and all the embossing. Iris

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  8. This is so fun and I LOVE the embossed pumpkin border!

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  9. Very cute. Love those embossed pumpkins. I bet they are even cooler IRL!

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  10. Gorgeous and fun fall project! Thanks for the inspiration!

    Carol B
    ciaoitalia2007(at)gmail(dot)com

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  11. Embossing makes your card so cool!

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  12. Super fun stamped image and awesome embossed background! Love that big orange bow too!

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  13. Love the embossing and you are so clever. Thanks for sharing the how-to and the card is fabulous!

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  14. The embossing is great. TFS you how-tos!

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  15. What a fun image and I LOVE how you double embossed those pumpkins. You must be a very patient person!

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  16. This is soooo cool!! I love the idea of using the debossed side and filling it in with the different embossing powders. What a great idea!! I'm honored to be hopping with you.

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  17. Love the little dog chomping on the mummy leg . Well done!

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  18. What a clever and creative card. That mummy stamp is adorable!

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  19. Adorable card, Lea...that must have taken you forever to versamark all of those debossed pumpkins! And of course the image is just too cute, reminds me of my little Jack Russell Terrier!

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  20. The heat embossing of the pumpkins....genius! Fabulous job, Lea!

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  21. Love that embossed background and the cute mummy stamp!
    DeniseB

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  22. what a great idea to use the debossed side!! this is incredible Lea - to emboss every pumpkin individually - what a labor of love darling! Fab job!

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  23. Wow, that was a ton of work! Great job, it looks so incredibly festive! Thanks so much for participating in our hop today!

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  24. WOW. Love that embossing on the Black Magic!!! (Ellen from Core)

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  25. Love love love the embossing powder.

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