ScrapbookPal.com Design Team entry~

I have been having fun making cards with layered stamping and decided to use my Cricut and the Summer In Paris cartridge along with my inks and stamps. Instead of using my Cricut to cut out an image, I used it to draw one on the card front!

I replaced the blade with the Cricut Fashion Color Marker in pink to draw the Eiffel Tower.

I used light to medium pressure to draw the image, otherwise the pen presses too firmly onto the cardstock and the lines are heavier.

Voila! I love the swirly interior design. I had the machine draw a second image which I fussy cut with Cutter Bee scissors. I planned to use foam adhesive to mount the fussy cut Tower above the flat image later. I used a Stampendous Music Score stamp and Tattered Rose Distress Ink to stamp the sheet music over the Tower.

I also stamped 'Paris', a fleur de lis and a compass using Distress Inks. The next step was to add small red brads on either side of 'Paris' and distress the edges, then mount the piece to a small houndstooth print.

I like adding the fussy cut Eiffel Tower to give the card front added dimension~

I aligned a ruler along the edge of the blank card after I glued a vintage book page to it~ this allowed me to tear the excess off and give the card a deckle edge. I could not use a traditional method to distress the edges of the book page because it was old and fragile.

The finishing touch was to adhere a small red rose to the Eiffel Tower and stamp an inside sentiment~

I like the combo of various pinks and browns~

Friday's Ironing~

I wanted to try the wax paper resist technique with brown ink and see if it looked sort of like animal print. I think it does! This time around, I used glossy paper by Krome Kote (been in my stash forever) as the background for the wax resist. Cool results!

I used various shades of brown Distress Inks, Verve Stamps, bakery string, and a scalloped square punch.
Crumple a piece of wax paper slightly larger than your project, then unncrumple it and lay it over the glossy piece.

You can either (1) make two waxed pieces by sandwiching the wax paper between the glossy pieces, then covering the sandwich with scrap paper and briefly ironing the whole thing or (2) place the glossy piece facing up, cover with crumpled wax paper, cover with scrap paper and iron with a dry iron. The second method leaves wax on the other side of the scrap paper, which is why you use it to ensure wax does not get on your iron! Make sure you do not use steam, and you need only iron for a few seconds. I used a Tim Holtz ink blending tool to spread various shades of brown ink on the glossy piece, once it was cool. Then I embellished with black Bazzill paper, bakery string and a stamped image from Verve.

I used black embossing powder on an Hero Arts Eiffel Tower image. Using my Verve stamps, I stamped a punched square with the 'you're my cup of tea', and fussy cut an additional teacup image to adhere with foam dots. I do not have any animal stamps, or I may have used one on this background since it does remind me of an animal print! Can't you just picture a giraffe on this background? Have a great weekend~ I think I may have a little more ironing to do!