20 Minute Challenge

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. I am a guest designer at the Craft & Connect Challenge Blog. For this month's challenge, they are doing a 20 Minute Challenge in which you create a card or any handmade project in 20 minutes or less. I was a bit unsure about this since it usually takes me more than 20 minutes to create a card, but I am up for the challenge. How about you?

I did not include in the 20 minutes the time I planned and pulled the supplies out of my stash. I pressed my timer as soon as I started creating.

I trimmed an Altenew Velvet cardstock into 5 1/2" x 4 1/4". I lightly spritz water to this panel to prepare it for embossing. The mist softens the fibers of the paper and prevents cracking with embossing. I embossed this panel using the Simon Say Stamp Margot Tile 3D embossing folder. I heat set this panel to speed dry it.

I inked the flat side of the embossed panel with Altenew Berry Mocha ink. I heat set this to dry the ink.

At this point, I am at the 10-minute mark. I swiped a Versamark ink on the edges of the panel. I poured gold embossing powder on the sticky ink, then heat embossed it. 

I was fiddling with my project as to how to add a sentiment to the panel. I did not want to cover all that detailed embossing. I paused the timer so I can look for a gold cardstock to die cut the sentiment on. The sentiment die cut is from Lawn Fawn. 

I adhered the sentiment to the panel. It was a bit tedious to add glue to the die cut sentiment because of its dainty feature.

I still have a few minutes left so I flicked gold paint to the panel. I heat set this again to dry the paint and this is when I ran out of time. The only step I was not able to do with this project is to adhere it to a note card. Not too bad, right? 

All the use of the heat gun on the cardstock panel caused some warping. I laid an acrylic block over the cardstock panel to flatten it. 

I hope you like today's project. Please join this month's challenge at Craft & Connect. Thank you, Jayne & Emma of Craft & Connect, for giving me this opportunity to guest design in your challenge blog. 

Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.