I worked on my mojo this afternoon. My mojo and I have been in couples counseling and things are really starting to work out lately. Hopefully mojo will continue to act nicely and I can make lots of new inspiring things!

So here is my entry for this week’s Mojo Monday Sketch Week 112!

I dug really deep to in my creativity to make this card! The entire card was chosen for a specific special friend of mine. I am hoping she isn’t reading my blog right now but just in case, I’m not saying who it’s for! These colors are right up her alley I believe.

I used Organic Snowdrop (in my store this week!) by BoBunny. The paper is double sided. I also used Baja Breeze (retired, Stampin’ Up!) for the layers and Soft Suede (Stampin’ Up!) for the base. The buttons, eyelet and ribbon are all Stampin’ Up! The stamped image is from Just Rite Stampers (coming soon to my store!). I sponged all the edges in Soft Suede ink to give the whole thing a distressed look.

Have you ever made faux metal accessories or images like I did here?

This is one cool technique. If you’ve never done it, you definitely should try it out.

Faux Metal:

1. Using Top Boss or Versamark, directly apply ink to paper.
2. Cover with embossing powder (I used copper), shake off excess and heat set.
3. Apply your Top Boss or Versamark again.
4. Cover with embossing powder and shake off excess.
5. Before heat setting your final layer, ink the image of your stamp with the Top Boss or Versamark (I prefer Versamark). Lay aside.
6. Heat set again. Once the image is set, quickly stamp your image into the embossed area before it cools down. Remove stamp.
7. Voila!!

Then you can punch out your image or whatever you want to do. I think this is a super fun technique that I don’t use nearly enough. The image I used from Just Rite stampers has a tiny bit of dark (Versafine, Onyx) ink on it so the lines in Love are noticeable.

And this is the inside of the card! I can’t wait to write my message and send it to my fun friend. I hope she enjoys this! If you happen to use the faux metal technique, be sure to leave me a comment so I can go check yours out!

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