Thursdays Way To Challenge

Today's challenge was to make something "faux" or way of usinf leather, suede...etc. So I decided to work on the faux leather tutorial posted by Beate on SCS in the Resources section. Sorry, I'm not too chatty today, it's just too much drama I'm facing right now with my MSN group. I hate to become the bad guy, but I'm gonna have to start enforcing stricter rules and start booting people off as much as don't want to. If I have to become a *itch...then I guess I'll have to. I've had it with busting my @ss putting the group together so I can have slackers when it comes to swaps. I know life gets in the way...but geez, let your partners know. I've been an angel for many swaps, so if I have to step up as an angel again...I don't mind. Ok...I went sooooo off track. Let me post a quick tutorial on how I made my faux leather card...bare with me please, I am not great at tutorials...but I'll try.

Supplies:

CS: Kraft, C2Cocoa, VVanilla, & CChip

Ink: CChip, CCaramel, RuRed, MMustard, Versamark

Stamps: Bronc Buster

Embellishments: Hodgepodge Hardware, brads, & eyelets

Others: Cuttlebug Mesh folder, masking tape, UTEE, & pom poms

How To Make Faux Leather!

Supplies you'll need: masking tape, neutral CS, clear embossing ink, clear EP (UTEE is fine too), & inks of choice.

1. Start by masking your CS with small pieces of masking tape

2. Here it is all covered up

3. whatever tape is left to the sides, you don't have to trim it, just flip it to the back

4.chose a color ink to add first, here I used Creamy Caramel

5. swipe it all across and up and down until you acheive the look you want

6. here is what it looks like once the first ink is applied

7. I then chose to add another color, here, More Mustard...but you can add as many or as few colors as you like

8. since I didn't want the More Mustard color to be too dark, I used a sponge brush to swipe it on

9. I did the same with the Ruby Red

10. and then again with Close To Cocoa

11. this was my final color touch outcome

12. next swipe over the whole CS with Versamark or any other embossing ink

13. sprinkle with clear embossing powder and shake off (here I used UTEE)

14. heat emboss it until it's nice and glossy

15. and you're done!

Hope you've enjoyed my attempt at a tutorial! Thanks for stopping by!