Some make and takes...

I put together last night for the Scrapper's Cove. Next weekend is their 4th anniversary open house. Congrats Ladies! It's been a ton of fun working with you on the design team over the past year.

These can be used as either a gift enclosure card or tag - or even on a layout. The products I was given to work with were this Fiskars combo border/corner punch and a package of Tim Holtz Iconic Grungeboard.

I'm not much of a technique girl but that glimmer mist sure makes it look like I am. I used the grunge board letters from the set as a mask for the mist. (the icons could have been pretty cool, too.)  It really does some amazing things. The only thing I don't like about it, is also the thing I love about it - it is not precise or predictable.
Notice that faux stitching?

I saw that technique in one of the big scrapbooking mags (I wish I could remember which one so I could give them credit) and thought I'd give it a whirl. First, you make the dashes (a.ka. stitches) with a smudge proof pen, then you go back with a piercer and make a hole at both sides of each dash/stitch. Tedious, yes, but worth it. It looks realistic, no? I'm a pretty regular sewer and from a distance, it looks sewn to me. I hope they like it. They know I can't submit anything that hasn't been sewn in one way or another.
Off to work on that Ella challenge and my photography class homework (which I promised myself I would not leave until last minute this week!)