Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Red Dragon EP


Okay, you can't tell by these pictures, but all of these red images were embossed with Stamp-N Stuff's red dragon EP. It is spectacularly glittery, red with golden sparkles--perfect for Christmas. The star images really twinkle, and the other hard-to-see images are little Christmas trees. So I created all these UFOs and now I have more work to do today.

I get to see my parents, brother, and 3 of my 4 sisters for Thanksgiving this year. We're having a huge Un-Birthday party, since we're never together to celebrate each other's birthdays. We'll be making all of our favorite desserts and snacks and eating ourselves sick. Anyways, what I meant to say was that we'll be spending a day or two stamping Christmas cards. Which is why I made all of these images to begin with, but I don't know if I can wait another 9 days to use them.

BTW I am too cheap right now to buy and embossing heat tool, so I just use my gas stove. I turn a burner on about 6 or 7 and hold my paper with paper tweezers. I have burned more than one image before because I was not paying attention. But mostly it works just great. I know my sister puts her cardstock on the back of a hot iron to emboss, but it always seems to curl the cardstock.

7 comments:

Stacy said...

Wow embossing with your stove! You are brave. I think I would burn my house down! LOL

My Paper World said...

I love the cute little images!

laos348 said...

Very cool - can;t wait to see what you do with those.

Michelle said...

Ohhhhhh, look how gorgeous!!! Love the sparkle and how bright that red is!

ktstamps said...

Hey Alana, how did you get the card gallery on your blog? I love it! kt

A.Lee said...

If you sign up with Picasaweb through Google (http://picasaweb.google.com), it will create a gallery from all your blog pictures. And you can upload pictures and organize them into albums. Very nice feature. Thanks to google.

jenn* said...

that's SOO funny! i thought i was the only one trying to burn down my house! i tried toaster, toaster oven, iron, curling iron, straight iron, actual oven, and stove. ended up using stove and using 'burnt' images as "distressed embellishments". then i got a heat gun; bit the bullet;sucked it up. i am SOOO glad i did!