Flutter By Wednesday DT

Good morning!  Today I am excited to post my creation as a guest designer for Flutter By Wednesday.  This week's challenge with Danni and her wonderful FBW team is embossing.  Monday my Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps from their new release arrived including the beautiful Bird Fairy by artist Crissy Armstrong.

She was coloured with Tim Holtz distress inks.  The brown cardstock has been dry embossed with Cuttlebug embossing folder D'vine Swirls.

The sentiment "Imagine" was heat embossed with Close to My Heart embossing powder.

I continued embossing on the inside of the card, using the left over embossed cardstock from the front and embossing the sentiment and wing.

My original idea for the inside was to go over the wing with a pink marker and stamp it - too dark.  Then I tried stamping on scrap first and making a lighter image - still not right.  Then I got the idea to emboss the wing with Stampin' Up irridescent ice - can't find it and my SU demo next door is out too.  She suggested mixing clear embossing powder with dazzling diamonds - the result was amazing!

The sentiment, also from the new KKS release, was stamped in Stampin' Up Close to Cocoa classic ink pad and quickly covered with clear embossing powder.  Granted craft ink is recommended for the clear embossing technique but I own every SU colour in classic ink pads and only two or three in the craft.  Bird Fairy will be entered into this week's challenge at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps challenge blog, A Spool Full of Sugar (lots of layers) and Papertake Weekly (pink).

Thank you for looking!  Please check out the fantastic creations by the rest of the Flutter By Wednesday design team.  Also, the challenge at Paper Sundaes is open until Saturday night with a random winner receiving a $15 gift certificate to Stamp and Create - and Lacey carries the complete new release from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!