Impressive, To Die For Tips & Tricks!

One last post as the Papertrey Ink Distinguished Guest Designer :)  I'm going to be so sad to relinquish the title... it's been a great two months.  I wanted to share my card using the new Giga Guidelines 1 Impressions Plate.
Design is just SO gorgeous! I don't have a die-cut machine to use these fabulous plates with, but no way was that going to stop me from trying out Giga.  So I came up with a solution of dry embossing with the plate and a stylus from a rub-on package.

I taped a piece of Hawaiian Shores to the plate and used the stylus to outline the image - just like you would if you were dry embossing.  By taping the paper on the sides, you can easily lift up the edges to see the die underneath and know where to rub.  Even if you rub outside the lines, you'll still get a crisp and clean image as long as you're making deep rubs right on top of the edges of the plate.  I finished off the card using Year of Flowers: Daffodils and Background Basics: Tin Types stamps.

Be sure to check out what the fabulous other PTI designers did with the fun dies and plates!!!

Michelle Wooderson
Betsy Veldman
Lisa Johnson
Dawn McVey
Heather Nichols

Thanks again to Nichole for letting me guest... it was an amazing experience! :)