#michelle l.

I just love the simplicity and the elegance of this card. Not to mention the ease of recreating and making multiples.

Because I made quite a few of these, I used Embellie Gellie to help me pick up the tiny pearls and correctly place them.

The Perfect Crafting Pouch is great to deactivate stickers and is also antistatic, which is perfect for embossing. Since the cardstock I was using is white and embossing in black, I really didn’t want any mess.

Here are a few snapshots of the process:

First you tap the pouch a bit to make sure the powder inside is exposed. Then you rub it on the area you are planning to stamp on:

Ink up your image with Versamark ink. You can sort of see a watermark image below:

Poor the embossing powder over the image and shake off the excess. As you can see the powder just stayed on the ink and not on other parts of the cardstock.

I had a little collecting tray made out of paper. This was to collect to unused embossing powder. As you can see there were specks of powder on the tray. So I used the Perfect Cleaning Cloth to clean up the mess. It’s great to pick up little things like embossing powder and especially glitter, because you know that gets on everything.

I cleaned it up and the tray is clean, and you can see that the cloth picked up the embossing powder and some other little pieces of paper.

Amy, the owner of ScraPerfect shared with us such a fantastic idea of using ScraPerfect’s Best Glue Ever to make glue spots! I thought to myself… “Yeah, right!”

Well it’s super simple and I decided to give it a try, mostly because it looked simple and I had run out of glue dots.

All you have to do is get some wax paper or, in my case I used a left over strip of glue dots. Dab some dots onto the strip and you can practice by using different sizes. Let it dry for a few minutes about 15 or so.

What happens is that it gets tacky and it’s perfect to use as a glue spot and it comes off the wax strip intact.

After I was done I just rolled up the strip and put it aside for future use.

These came in handy. I used the smaller dots to adhere the tiny bow onto the card. It’s great that you can customize the size of the dots according to your needs!

It’s Michelle!

Tell us about yourself. I have been an active stamper since 2005 and have never looked back. I like reviewing products, trying out new stuff and most of all just stamping. I try to stamp at least three times a week, and am lucky that my husband is a supporter of this obsession.

What’s your style? What do you like to create and what’s your favorite item to use? My style varies greatly, but lately I seem to be into the shabby chic look. I think the cards look so pretty that way. My favorite items are dies, ribbon and designer paper.

What’s your favorite snack while creating? I don’t really eat while I’m creating because I don’t want a spill or my hands to be dirty and then dirty the items I’m working with. If I need to eat, I’ll just take a break and go to the kitchen. I do however drink lots of water.

If you could visit one place, where would you go? Oh this is difficult to answer because there are many places I would like to go and visit. But I would definitely like to go and visit Italy and Greece.