Tim's masks

[paddlegal]

I couldn't help myself today and since I was going to Trader Joe's and since it's only another 3 miles beyond to my LSS that carries all things Tim, well, I got two of his masks. The giant flourish and the alphabet. So I'm playing with the mask (and I warn you that the flourish is really hard to remove from it's original plastic backing) and having a blast with it. But then I look at the plastic backing and thought - to bad you can't use that for something. Now it's probably on YouTube already and I just didn't know it but I used the backing to emboss a manila tag. WOW, is that cool. I just laid the tag on top and used my trusty bone folder to burnish it. Then I took an embossing tool to make it a little deeper. Below you see the results of my first attempt. I'm calling it Reverse Mask Embossing, catchy huh?

There's two sizes of the same images because it's late, I'm tired, and I was struggling for the last hour to get the sizing right to it would accept it. I finally got it.

[scrappin nurse]

Neat idea! TFS!!!

[pbp908]

I'm getting my discards out of the trash! I never would have thought about using it that way.

Pam

[ChristyB]

Thanks for this.


I had saved all of the backings "KNEW" there had to be some kind of use for them

[EDelValle]

Brilliant!

I know I haven't seen this done
anywhere else

[tlscrap]

Great idea!! I don't have the flourishes, but now I may have to order them. Now I know to keep my backings

[jfugina]

Very clever! And resourceful - way to recycle! And I love the result.. so much potential.

[Holly]

Oh I love iit when someone comes up with something new, .....



it means I don't have to think.

[paddlegal]

Well what do you know! Tim just emailed me (he is so good about returning messages) to say: "very cool Farley! nope haven't seen anyone emboss with it yet. way to go! have fun and thanks again for sharing...

-tim"

Cool!

[julierealtor]

very cool Farley....has anyone tried to run grunge shapes thru cuttlebug for embossing? seeing this just gave me the idea...thanks for the inspiration...gotta go run grunge thru the CB....LOL

[paddlegal]

Julie at a demo last Spring that Tim did I'm sure (99%) he used a CB to either emboss or perhaps make a grunge die cut? I don't have a CB or anything like that kind of tool so though it was fun to watch the outcome I didn't pay close enough attention to what the device was...it was small and green. Helpful huh? For once I was controlling my knee-jerk reaction that I had to have it all

[nancine]

I've run grungeboard shapes thru my Cuttlebug.
Look at the tin I did for Dani - the wings are "cuttlebugged" using the swiss dots embossing folder.

[paddlegal]

Nancy those wings are fantastic not to mention the tin. What a wonderful creation.