Dark chocolate cookies decorated with white modeling chocolate and luster dust

For a birthday girl to be put with other cupcakes......they still have to have their black & white ribbons put one!! ( I didn't geta good photo of them with those on...rushed)

Photo of cobblestone street in historic Petersburg, processed through the 'emboss' filter of G'MIC

Alternate take on today's Macro Mondays theme: Just White Paper. Happy Macro Monday.

GR digital 2

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It was too hot to take pics of these on-the-feet in Panama so I had to wait to get back to cool, crisp Montana to get this pic. Koigu KPPPM, Colorway 1205.

Video - heat embossing resist with watercolor wash 😀👍

More photos and details on my blog:

limedoodledesign.com/2016/01/video-heat-embossing-resist/ ‪

Thanks for looking!

Debby‬

I was given a sheet of magazine scraps which had been applied to a background in a haphazard manner and was asked to use this as a source of inspiration!

I find this sort of challenge VERY difficult as I usually work to an idea, not an image.

After a mild panic I decided to gesso the whole page in an attempt to tone down the images and then I used it to create a folder which I then die cut and embossed.

I then grabbed the scrap bag and started to machine embroider images which started to leap from the page.

This is one sample.

Just playing with some left over flowers and fondant on top of dark chocolate cupcakes

our embosser came in yesterday! textural goodness.

Linking to Virginia View's Challenge #20: All About Textures: virginiasviewchallenge.blogspot.com/2015/11/virginias-vie...

Gorgeous new Clearly Besotted ‪#STAMPtember‬ collaboration

More photos and details on my blog:

limedoodledesign.com/2015/09/heat-embossing-2/

Thanks for looking!

Debby

I stripped the ferrotype portrait from my embossed card, it was on layers anyway, and loaded it as large as I could so that you can download it and produce your own mini ferrotype portrait. The original was 2.4 by 4 inches. Knock out the background and use it to layer over the portrait of your choosing.

It was obvious that I could not use the embossed ferrotype card as scanned. I had to set it up in environmental light from a single source to bring proper modeling. As always, "normal" lighting in this case comes from the upper left. Perhaps more distinctly sharp lighting might present the embossing in a better light. After I got my photo's shot to exact rectilinear in shape and dropped it on top my Photoshop PSD. This is now far superior to the scanned embossed card. I figured that I would probably have to do this even when the original was scanning. Now I can consider that this retouch job is a wrap.

I had to maximize the scan resolution on the image so that I could do my best editing the mini image and get the best results. The ferrotype plate was larger than the oval cutout but I decided not to tear the old card apart. Who knows what could happen. I returned it to another layer under the knocked out stock embossed card. I had very little overlap so I lost very little.

I have no idea what happened to it in someone's long custody other than normal atmospheric deterioration. There were creases at the top but no surface damage on the left side. I might have been a damaged negative. As always, under - applying retouching is always better than creating cartoons.

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Chocolate cupcakes with marshmallow embossed fondant.

Had time to play with my new Simon Says "Star Flower Background" stamp and made these two cards for the current Flickr Group Challenge. More details on my blog

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Chocolate cupcakes with marshmallow embossed fondant.

Exakta Varex IIa

Choc mud cupcakes, chocolate fondant embossed with gold lustre powder

For the Let's Squash It! challenge - use a words or numbers folder and sand it. Adding one of my little gnomes.

I bought an embossing folder for cards from a craft shop. I used it to decorate the cupcakes instead :-)) I'm pretty happy how these turned out.

the macromonday theme is tool/utensil and i've got a bunch to choose from ~grin~ evidently i am not done finding ones to photograph

ODC close-up

CASE Study challenge - Kathy Racoosin, details blogged, TFL!

NB - the square panels are not embossed, I've glued the die cut Chloe on top.

paper embosser used for fondant - for cookielady - hope this helps

I made this card using the technique shown in Hero Arts latest video on youtube here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvpKEybEe1g

I used dried marigold distress ink for the poppies and peeled paint for the stems