Hello

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This week is a Designer's Choice Challenge and Esther has chosen: Try a New Technique (it doesn't have to be something brand new, just something new to you that you haven't tried before)

And here is the card I created:

After looking through my Pinterest boards to see what techniques I might want to try, I decided on the Faux Tin Tile technique.  It was really easy and fun!  Adhere tin foil to a piece of card stock, emboss it with an embossing folder, and score it into squares (I scored every inch).  For a little bit more depth and age, I then dry brushed over my "tiles" with a mixture of green and turquoise, straight black and straight white acrylic paints and then wiped most of the paint off with a paper towel.  The pints stayed in the debossed areas and added a bit of patina to my "tiles".  I also die cut my frame from some card stock covered in tin foil and then painted it white to hopefully give it a bit more interest.  The bookprint is actually from an old (really old) encyclopedia set that my parents were getting rid of several years ago.  And the seam binding ribbon and bow used up a small length of ribbon that has been hanging around for quite a while.  I stamped, colored and fussy cut my favorite flowers and leaves from the Flower Power Separates set.  Finished everything off by die cutting the word "hello" three times from dark brown cardstock and adhering them all together for a bit more dimension.

Thanks for stopping by!  Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this photo.  And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Daisy Outline, large", "Daisy Outline, small", and "Leaf Outline, large"

Dies: Spellbinders "Floral Ovals"; Simon Says Stamp "Painted Hello"

Challenges:
Shopping Our Stash #401--base it on a book (used an actual page of a book)
Crafting By Designs--anything goes
Crafty Gals #197--3 or more layers
Word Art Wednesday #399--anything goes with uplifting sentiment
Cute Card Thursday #593--anything goes
Krafty Chicks #466--anything goes with the optional twist: embossing (I used dry embossing)
Cardz TV #95--anything goes
Sketch Saturday #575--sketch

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #358--anything goes with snippets (all the flowers and leaves were stamped onto scraps of white card stock, the seam binding was a little 6 inch scrap and the book print was a scrap--and a recycled bit!)
Craft Dee Bow-Z--anything goes with handmade bow
Creatalicious #168--anything goes with optional twist: distress it (I distressed my tiles with paint)
Dare2B Artzy--anything goes