Embossed Wrinkles

     We have had our Celebrate Recovery Ministry up and running for just two weeks now and we've had our first really hard circumstance. We have ladies coming from a local recovery home and they had a death Sunday of a recent graduate from the program. It has the ladies at the home, and those who work there and in other recovery groups all really shaken. Me too! As is my pattern (along with some not as fruitful coping mechanisms) I took my sadness down to the stamping studio. 

     Sabrina offered a technique challenge yesterday for the Ways to Use it Challenge. We were to add watercolor to tissue paper then wrinkle it, glue it to cardstock retaining the wrinkles and emboss the raised, wrinkled areas. Well, at the end of the summer my kids and my foster grandson tie dyed T shirts. That involved lots of paper towels and dye and I just couldn't toss all those cool pieces of toweling! 

Here are my paper towels

I pulled apart the two plies and glued the darker piece down onto plain white card stock with Elmer's glue retaining the wrinkles.

Here's the first round of embossing by running a Versamark pad over the raised areas and sprinkling pewter embossing powder over it.

Went back and added more Versamark and ep

Cut the flowers and a branch and used that over a piece of a Gelli print

I diecut several dragonflies to use

Kept it very simple on this one

Shook a silver Sharpie over the punched black circles in the bg

Used a Gelli print for the solid dragonfly and overlaid a plain white

This is a really fun and easy technique that makes great bg pieces or pieces to diecut!