An Experiment with Mirrored Paper by Chris

I cut a mirrored sheet to fit in a Tim Holtz Alterations embossing folder (but there are a ton from Cuttlebug that would work just as well), and ran it through my ebosser using the basic embossing sandwich. It made a deep, crisp emboss.

To highlight the embossing I took off the protective sheet and swiped the front of the card with Stazon Ink and set it aside to dry. I had a sliver of silver left over so I inked and embossed that with the word poison from another embossing folder.

I matted the larger piece and used my Perfect Layers tool to cut at 1/8, and the sentiment on a piece of orange ribbon along matted both the image and the sentiment were then mounted on a 5x7 cardbase. I did have some trouble keeping the mirrored piece glued down. Not sure if the embossing was so deep that it didn’t have enough of the sticky back touching the cardbase, or if the size was a bit heavy for the front of the card, but to secure it I used some Gloo adhesive. Next time I’m going to try some alcohol inks. What about you?

(Note: this surface is truly a mirrored surface—trying to take a photo and not having too much light or me reflected in it proved too much of a challenge for me--J. I hope you can see its beauty even with my poor photography skills.)

Winter Wonderland Card by Deanna M

My card for you today is a 5" X 7" white card stock base. I added a black mat cut a 4 3/4" X 6 3/4". I then added some snowflake paper from the My Minds Eye Winter Wonderland  6" X6" paper pad. I then cut some white card stock to look like a snow mound and added some Flower Soft Glitter Frosting Hint of Green. I wanted to cut my pond from some of the Tim Holtz Mirror Sheets. I will tell you it did not cut well with my Cricut. I cut the pond from the Create a Critter cartridge at 1 1/2" and used my Gypsy to hide the little ripples that cut. (The pond is found under the accessory feature on the hippo cut). I used a multi cut of 4 and did that twice so 8 times but it still didn't cut. I did use the line cut by my cricut and my Tim Hotlz scissor to cut out my pond. I cut my ice skater at 4 1/2". I used paper from my stash for her. I then stamped my sentiment. Sure hope you like her. It was a bit hard to photograph the mirrored paper and it is picking up the reflection from the "white snow".