I thought I would show you some of my recent experimenting!  I photocopied a piece of material, which is something I have done a few times before, but this piece was not only a silk (and therefore had a sheen to it) but it also had embroidery on it too.

I wanted to see how it would turn out!

It actually looks rather good!  This was photocopied using an HP PhotoSmart colour inkjet printer (which is now about 3 years old, bless it!). Although the colour is not exactly the same (the pale blue was a bit washed out) the 3D effect of the embroidery looks lifelike and everyone I have shown it to ‘in real life’ spends their time running their fingers over it, just to check it’s not really there!

 Now you may well have noticed by now that I have embellished the photocopy. Again I was just experimenting with some new gold Stickles.  Might be a good technique to repeat at Christmas time. 

I also had a go with some Glimmer Mist, just a pearlised white, so it doesn’t show too much, apart from the fact that the bottle “spits” as well as sprays a fine mist and that’s what you can see as white cirlces on the above picture.  And because this print was made using an inkjet printer, the wet Glimmer Mist blobs wash out the colour of the image!  Bear that in mind when using the product yourself.

 You may be interested to know how I managed to achieve the scalloped edge around this piece of paper. 

Well I used my Dovecraft corner rounder!  As the above picture shows, there are guards in this particular corner rounder punch that can be removed, meaning you have more flexibility as to the angle of the paper.  So I just cut the circle around the image first and then went around the edge of the circle using the punch upside-down so that I could line up the corners of the scallop.

It didn’t quite fit all the way around, so I cut a curve on the very last little straight edge to blend in the scallops.

Have a look to see if your corner rounder can be adapted in the same way, because that would mean you can put scallops everywhere!!