After checking out the Technique Challenge over at SCS this morning...I just knew I had to make time to play!! I got my laundry done, chores finished, and school work corrected in record time!!! LOL!! The challenge is to make a clear slider for a nugget box! What a great idea!!! Well, I got to thinking about this...instead of stamping on it with my White Stazon pad...I wondered if I could emboss it with my crop-a-dile???!!!? Guess what??? It works!!!!!!! Woohooo! Now, the acetate that I used is some heavier stuff that I recently received from Ellen Hutson's store. I don't know if the thinner stuff will work with this or not...but maybe I'll try it later.
Sorry for the huge picture...I just couldn't get it to resize correctly in my editing program.
For a refresher on how to emboss using the Crop-a-Dile, check out THIS tutorial that Beate did on her Blog Fresh & Fun.
For all sorts of Nugget Box patterns, check out THIS post on SCS.
Here is a close up of the box... so you can see the embossed dots better.
Here is a close up of the gift card. The finished size is a 3 x 3 square. Just a quick tip on poking brads through ribbon - I use just a little bit of adhesive to hold the ribbon together...and then use my paper piercer and foam pad to poke a hole in the folded ribbon. This really reduces the "fraying" that you get when punching holes in the ribbon.
Have a great Monday!! ~Laurie
Recipe Stamps: All Holidays, Snow Flurries Paper: Whisper White, Soft Sky, Old Olive, Fall Flowers DP Ink: Soft Sky, Old Olive Other: Acetate, Rhinestones, Rhinestone brad, Circle punches, White taffeta ribbon