Design Team Throwdown #2 - Faux Finishes!!!

Oh man, faux finishes? That's pretty much what my first thought was. After looking through the tutorial list at Splitcoaststampers, I remembered that Therese from Lostinpaper had done a video last year about faux metal. (Click here to see her video on YouTube!) As soon as I knew what technique I wanted to try, my card fell together.

Check out what Spike & Chris created too at the Drunken Stampers post - and don't forget to vote at the Smeared & Smudged Forum! They changed the rules for voting this time so you'll vote for the team you think did the best job (Drunken Stampers, naturally!)

Blah, blah, BLAH, not running on a full cup of coffee yet - here's my card:

Supplies: Moonstone EP from Stampendous; silhouette stamp from PTI; Versamark; medallion stamp from Stampendous; rhinestone strips from dollarama; vellum; classic small oval Nesties

I die-cut the size oval I wanted to give the silhouette a not-too-big frame, and then coated it in Versamark & EP. I lost count of how many layers I did - 7 or 8, anyhow - and then pushed the stamp into the still-hot last layer. 

The medallion stamp was embossed onto vellum, and then I attached the vellum to the card base underneath the cameo, and with a thin strip of Scor-Tape at the top & bottom of the card - covered by the rhinestone strips. The cameo is adhered with a layer of foam tape - it's not a heavy piece, but it wants to bend, so the foam tape was the sturdiest choice. And about the vellum - freaking hell, didn't I decide to try & reposition it? And didn't it rip? DANGNABBIT. Lucky score of the day, though, because the rip is right underneath the cameo. *whew*

I love it. I love it soooo much that I don't even really mind the large amounts of embossing powder still coating  the far reaches of my desk...the dog has managed to shake most of it off by now ;)

Don't forget to hop on over to the Smeared & Smudged Forum to vote!

xoxo,

Jessi