Master Forger's Blog Hop

This month is all about stamping over at the CKCB Challenge Blog, since we are being sponsored by the fantastic Ippity Chick (and a fellow DT member) Sherri . So Beth and Meridy gave us this challenge for the blog hop:

Blog Hop Challenge: Use a stamping technique to create a project. Make sure you make a link to that technique so we can give it a try, too! (Or, if you feel adventurous...make your own tutorial for your favorite stamping technique!)

This is a good challenge for me, since I have tons of stamps that sit around collecting dust most of the time. The technique that I decided to try was Heat Embossed Resist with mists.
Here are some tutorials on how to do it:
http://ideasforscrapbookers.blogspot.com/2011/05/heat-embossing-with-mists.html

http://plkomara.blogspot.com/2010/09/annoucement-and-some-tattered-tags.html

I used this week's fantastic sketch from Sketchy Thursdays:

Here is my layout:

And a closer look at the embossed resist embellie:

I did have stray little bits of embossing powder which I could have brushed off with a paintbrush, but I kind of liked the droplet effect that it gave it, so I left them and heated it with my heat gun as it was.

Supplies used:
Red cardstock with a distressed pattern from GCD Studios, cherry patterned paper from Jenni Bowlin Studios, scraps of leftover papers that I punched into border strips-Basic Grey, Teresa Collins, navy Bazzill, a paper doily that I misted for my September kit,  a file folder cut from kraft cardstock with my Cricut and one of the fabulous Penny Duncan's svg files, Making Memories hinges, Tim Holtz tissue tape, a scrap of red Bazzill Swiss Dots cardstock that I cut into a scalloped shape with an svg file from Susan Blue Robot, and DCWV rub-on Stitching. I used 2 different stamps for my circle embellishment, a grungy dotted circle from a christmas stamp set by Danielle Johnson for Art Warehouse, and the "baby shower" with the umbrella are from a Doodlebug stamp set. I decided to put the other photos in the file folder, because I have put off scrapping them forever-they are all pastelly (what was I thinking, wearing red to a girly baby shower?), so they clashed with my photo- so I hid them ;-p .

Thank you for hopping by my blog! Here is the line-up, be sure to check out the other designers for tons of crafty, stamping inspiration!

                                Guest Designer: Lisa H.

Melissa

Sherri

Kim

Jemma

Margie (you are here)

Susanne (go here next)

Lisa

Gabrielle

Meridy