Inspiration Emporium November Challenge

It's time for another awesome Inspiration Emporium challenge. November's challenge is "Thanksgiving/Fall Place Setting Ideas". We would love to see your ideas and you could win $50.00. Click here for all the details.

Make your place settings beautiful this Thanksgiving with this fall pillow box. You can put a surprise of chocolate in the box for your guest. Who wouldn't love that! 

Check out my new technique with Distress Stickles Dry Glitter!

 Let's work on the leaves first! Cover a piece of chipboard with the Terminology Tissue Wrap using a glue stick. I covered a 6 x 12 piece of chipboard.

 Smooth out any bubble using a Craft Scrapper and let dry.

From your chipboard piece die cut the leaves with the Mini Tattered Leaves Movers and Shapers Die in your base tray.

For Tim's October tag he colored the Distress Stickles Dry Glitter with alcohol inks and this got me thinking. Why couldn't you adhere the glitter first and then alcohol ink it so you could get an agate effect. So off to the studio to try just that. I adhered the Dry Glitter with Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint. No it won't crackle, (I know this because that was a previous experiment). I like the effect of the Crackle paint better then other glues I tried.

 Set the leaves aside to dry. 

Apply a small amount of Alcohol Ink (a 1-2 second squeeze) and add a squeeze of Blending Solution to an Ink Applicator tool with felt. I found that if you didn't use Blending Solution the leaves were to dark. Pounce the ink onto the leaves. I love that you can see the dictionary print from the Tissue Wrap. Color the leaves different colors just like fall! 

Die cut the box with the Pillow Box die from the Tim Holtz Alterations line with Kraft card stock. Love this die it's just the right size for a gift card, a little chocolate bar, a small treat. 

Stamp the Acorn or Leaves from the Autumn Blueprint set with Jet Black Archival Ink.

Color the Acorn with Distress Markers. 

Wash the image with a water brush to blend the colors.

Assemble the box by adhering the tab. 

Ink the edges of the box with Vintage Photo Distress Ink on an Ink Blending tool.

Glue the leaves to the top of the Acorn. Add the little tag with your guests name that has been stamped with Jet Black Archival ink. Tie a bow with paper string and add to the leaves. I love the look of the leaves, the sparkle and the colors. Happy accidents come when you are willing to try something new.

I hope you will join in on the challenge! We would love to see your Thanksgiving table decoration. Head over to Inspiration Emporium to see more amazing inspiration!

Thanks for coming by!
Richele

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Trick or Treat!

Happy Halloween!

Hope my friends and family have a great day today. 

Snow Globe, Snowman card!

I received my team order from Sizzix recently and I knew the minute I started playing with the new Bell Jar and Pedestal from Tim Holtz that a snow globe was just the thing to make. I love the snowman inside he is made from Shrink Plastic. Isn't he so cute this size! Let's get started.

Emboss a piece of white card stock with the Snow Flurries Texture Fade using the Oval Diffuser. The diffuser will allow you to only emboss the outer edge of the card stock. 

 Ink the edges with Broken China Distress Ink on an Ink Blending Tool. I used the snowflakes as a deboss so the snow flakes would remain white. 

Die Cut the Winter Wonder snowflake from white card stock. Ink the edges with Broken China Distress ink. 

 Coat the Snowflake with Glue N' Seal and Distress Stickles Dry Glitter.

 Use Shrink plastic and die cut the Snowman from the Winter Wonder Bigz die from Sizzix. This is one of my favorites dies for the holidays. Heat with a Heat tool to shrink. 

 As the shrink plastic shrinks it will curl, not to worry as it heats it will flatten back out.

 Once it flattens back out I like to place an acrylic block to help it flatten. 

 Working on the bak side of the snowman. Stamp the music notes with Jet Black Archival Ink, color the nose with orange alcohol ink and paint the hat black using dabber paint. Let dry.

 Now paint the entire back of the snowman with Snow Cap Dabber Paint. This will make him opaque.

Now for the glob die cut the Bell Jar from an acrylic sheet or I used the packaging from my die and the pedestal from glossy black card stock. Paint the edges with Snow Cap paint dabber on the back side of the glob. Now working on the front side use Glossy Accents to add dots over the globe and at the bottom for snow. While the glue is still wet apply Distress Stickles Dry Glitter. The Distress Dry Glitter makes it look like it's snowing inside the glob. Set aside to dry. 

Adhere the snowflake embossed piece to a broken china matt and then to the white card base. Pop dot the pedestal and the snowman to the card. Don't forget to give the Snowman a scarf of striped Paper Twine. For the glob top, tie a tiny tag with the word "Wish" stamped on it with Striped Paper Sting and a little piece of Silver Tinsel Twine. Pop Dot the globe, you need to conceal the pop dots. I put pop dots under the snow at the bottom and at the very top under the handle. Add the Snowflake with pop dot too. 

Thanks for stoping by!
Richele

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