Today's ways to use it challenge is to "discover it" and use a new technique or something new. I am trying out the pencil resist technique as I'd just picked up some fun stencils yesterday. My 10yoDD was excited to see the leopard print so I thought I'd try to make her Bday card ahead, but now that I'm done, it really doesn't say "Ella" to me! At any rate I had fun with the technique and got to play with some new toys. I used my stencil and some school-room colored pencils to fill in the black spots (I used a bit of brown too). I then sponged More Mustard and some Cajun Craze over this. I then wiped off any ink that was over the pencil. I had a die and stamp set from The Cat's Pajamas that I won during one of the company sponspored challenges here (can't remember which one!) I die cut my gold piece and stamped in Versafine and embossed in Black detail ep. I layered this over a black piece then rounded the corners (oops-used the bigger of my rounders by mistake) then layered onto a Labels 9 gold piece that I also embossed. I added some gem flourishes and gems as well as a tiny black metal charm from a bracelet. I layered the gold mesh over my pleated black satin. I put a base of SU dp onto Black.
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2013 GMT Views: 2215
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Thu, May 09, 2013 @ 7:03 PM
I think this is an awesome card!! The first thing that caught my eye was the sketch. I also think your pencil resist is fantastic I think your daughter should love this birthday card.