what are your fav techniques

hey there ladies
i see we have afew card makers out there and i was just wondering what some of your fav techques are i have found some new ones (to me anyways) using household stuff like shaving cream, kids bubbles, bleach, ect or do you like using your heating tool or well i was just wondering how much fun we all have doing rubber stamping and would like feed back and mabey learn somemore new things to do with my cards

cant wait to hear from you all

debbie j

Well I like the collague tecnique, rubber stamping, computer generating, charms, using old stamps, garbage papers!! I haven't tried the bleach yet, but have been thinking about it!!LOL

I like to tare paper and the best way to get a nice torn just the way you want it to go is to take a paint prush or Qtip and dip in water, drag across the paper where you want the tear. Tare it while it is wet and let it dry before pasting on you card or ATC.

hey pat
what a great idea for tearing the paper i do that all the time when i need a note to write never thought of it for my cards thank good tip

debbie j

What is the shaving cream technique?!?

you put shaving cream in a cake like pan and drip reinker or food coloring in then take a chop stick and swirl around then when you have the look you want place your card stock down on shaving cream then lift up and scrap off shaving cream let paper completely dry and use it what ever way you want
here is one card i made using shaving cream it is the shirt on the left

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/h...s/100_1398.jpg


hope this helps
debbie j

I haven't really played around with my heat embosser but the few times I did I couldn't get it to work right. I love playing with paper though! I like using all my stamps.

I haven't tried the bleach, shaving cream techniques yet. They sound interesting. Might have to try them sometime soon.

i love to heat emboss that is what we did on our christmas card this year the kids love to watch it change ..... if my 5 yr old can do it lanak you can do it lol