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Embossable Acetate In Action!
Topic Started: Mar 15 2008, 06:06 PM (390 Views)
gymbob
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A friend's girlfriend is in hospital following a nasty car crash. She likes fairies, but not the pink and fluffy type, more of a gothic touch. So I stamped the fairy in black on embossable acetate, then double embossed with a very dark glittery powder. The shake-a-card looks as though she is tiptoing through glitter standing up. Sadly laid down flat to scan she seems to be wading through it knee deep :r

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twinthing
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lovely card kim! I hope your friend recovers from her crash soon! :thumbup;
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gymbob
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Thank you! Thanks to modern technology she survived the crash :ta: , and is hopefully going to be OK! But not fun at all. :(

You will know the fairy stamp I used...it's an encaustic one originally. But I do like the way on this card laying down she seems to be wading through mud...but maybe that's my cross country running eyes seeing something there! :blink:
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There are so many times when a scanner, or even a digital camera, doesn't do a creation any justice, and I suspect this is one, Kim ;) I wonder if digital video would work better? :D

I've got the same stamp here but had never thought of using it like this ;) Great work :thumbup;

Glad your friend is doing well after the crash :huggy:

Steve :)
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What a clever idea. :thumbup; I think we may be seeing more cards like this now, won't we?
Hope your friend improves quickly. :huggy:
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OK, Disaster again. How do you get shake-a cards to keep their contents? I woke up this morning to an empty card and a desk full of glitter.

When I made the card I first put the acetate over the aperture with DSST. Then I put DSST all round the aperture over the acetate. . Then I put glitter in the middle, being careful not to get any on the DSST, and more DSST round the fol-over bit of the card, and closed it. I did it really slowly, pushed down each bit, and ran my finger round several times.

Should I have ued a small bit of card before folding overe the tri-fold? What else could I have done?

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Willow
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Hi Kim, sorry I can't help with your question but just wanted to say your card is lovely. :thumbup;

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Jenny
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Hi KIm, I've never done a shaker card with glitter,I've always used 'confetti' with ds foam tape.
Not much help to you really. Could the light or static from the scanner have degrades the sticky stuff or could the heat from the heat gun made a small hole for the glitter to fall from?
If it's any comfort it's a beautiful idea for a card.
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