Wooh! Mini and regular sized handmade folders!

I made my own little envelopes, à la #5. I even took pictures of the process. I don't know how similar it is to the original link, as I just went by my own understanding of how these guys work, but... here you go.

1.Draw a rectangle (square, potentially even triangle if you want to figure out the interesting flaps). PS: the lines don't really even have to be straight. I'm against rulers to some degree while working in my front room. Mostly because then I'd have to carry them.

 2. Draw side flaps, one about half of the original rectangle. Draw the second a little bit bigger than half the size of the original rectangle.

 3. Draw a cute little flap on the bottom. Also for the top flap. I like them to be slightly different sizes so that I can differentiate, and because the small flap usually goes on the bottom. It seems more professional.

 4. Glue your flaps together and the bottom on. You can erase the pencil lines, or if you want one specific size of these, make a cool stencil. Take a picture of your knee and hand in the process.

 5. There you have it! Now, use bokeh to exacerbate lame stuff that really needs no explanation. Note the different sizes- one is totally cute!

Sparkles in clear embossing powder! (April 11, 2013)

Hi!
   I've been jazzing around with my scrapbook supplies lately, in particular the supplies that I tend to neglect like my embossing powders. I just don't feel like I play with them enough.
  Today while crazy-embossing I came up with a concept-- will adding sparkles to my clear embossing powder work?

   After spending some time searching around on google and pinterest, I didn't find any answers. So I tried it with a teensy bit of clear embossing powder, Recollections brand, and some Wow! white glitter that I picked up from Winners when it was 3.99.
 
Lo! It worked!
Here's how I did it:
Step 1: Spend a few minutes searching around for some pill bottle or other semi-not-humongous container within which to store it, otherwise face throwing it out (not my can of beans, lads and lasses).
Pour in small amount of clear embossing powder that you have--mine is Detail embossing powder by Recollections from Michaels.

Step 2: Pour in some glitter. During this test, I was using Tulip Fashion Glitter that I got on sale at Value Village after halloween two years ago for less than a dollar. THAT is the time to shop for supplies, I tell you, when the crafty stuff and makeup goes to 75% off.

Step 2/ optional: or use other glitter from other places.

Step 3: Mix it together in your little storage container; mine's in a pill container from the dollarama that I was previously using to remember to take my vitamin D in the morning.

Step 4: Use a stamp and a watermark or resist or versamark or other inkpad; I haven't tested other inks for this but imagine they would work as long as they are okay with embossing powders usually. This stamp is a Studio G stamp which does not seem to have a name, but is from the 1.50 bin at Michaels (I love it).

 Step 5: Heat emboss that jazz.

And BLAMMO! It works!

 

I will be very clear ( see what I did there? ) and say that I prefer more sparkles than I used for the clear with white sparkles, since the sparkles seem to show better with more of them and the clear was only a tiny, tiny sparkle amount. I put some more in the gold (test 3) and even more in test 4, or the above, purple sparkles picture.

 Furthermore, it did NOT look very good on my scratch or computer paper since the paper was so thin, but I feel that it was as a result of my ink rather than the method itself.

Have a Greater Day!