Use It Tuesday Challenge #35

Hello friends! I am so excited to be posting my first  challenge with the design team at Use It Tuesday. It was so awesome to dig deep into my stash to find something fun to use instead of spending money on new stuff! As well as using up our stash, the challenge this week was to include any kind of embossing on our projects.

 For my embossing I tried a few different techniques. The first one was to sand the embossing to make it look distressed, I can never get enough of this! To emboss these long strips I cut through the top of my embossing folder. (don't worry, it's OK, Tim Holtz told me to do it!) I added some cute little pearls that I had in my stash for a little more interest.

 The second technique was to ink up the raised image to make it stand out.

The third was to ink up my folder so that the images would be stamped as well as embossed.

 This is what I started out with. The kits is from 2004 (TLC which no longer exists!) The extra pieces were left-overs from different kits. All of it was anywhere from 4-8 years old. I remember when I stashed it. I thought it was beautiful and surely I would have another baby girl at some point. (I already had two) My next child was a boy and although I did have a third girl three years ago I never did use the kit. It was as if I thought nothing beautiful was ever going to come out again!

Yes, this is what I use to emboss! I bought this when money was really tight and I can't part with it! I use the cricut for diecuts but I don't own an embossing machine. This works just fine and it's free. I didn't even bother to buy an adapter, the book makes it work!

It would be so awesome if you joined us for this challenge. If you do you can link your creation using Inlinkz by Friday July 20th. No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE35 when uploading to an online gallery and leave us a direct link so we can find your creation. (Linking tips are at the bottom of the post!)

Please make sure to mention you are playing along with a Use It Tuesday challenge (a link is great too!) so we know you are participating.

As always, one lucky participant will be randomly chosen to be a featured guest designer in an upcoming challenge!

We can't wait to see what you create! Now go Use It!!

Tips for linking:

- On your blog, once you publish your post, click on "View Blog". Then copy the URL and paste that into the inlinkz address field.

- No blog? Easy enough! Save your creation in your online gallery. Once it has been published, click on the exact project you want linked. Once it is up in your browser, copy the URL and paste that into the Inlinkz address field below. If you don't use any online galleries, you can use Sami's SP Gallery, registration is free and easy!