Tip Time Tuesday for Kiwi Lane Designs -- And a Giveaway!

Updated 12/23/13: Congratulations, Carla from Utah (cghundley) -- you are the winner of the Kiwi Lane templates! Email me at mightycraftyDOTmeATgmailDOTcom. :)

I'm so excited to be up on the Kiwi Lane Designs blog today with a new feature for Tip Time Tuesday. It's all about embossing with your Kiwi Lane templates and using washi tape to extend 6x6 papers on your 12x12 layouts. And I'm giving away an awesome set of Kiwi Lane templates -- read on to find out how to win!

For December's projects, we got to work with some beautiful collections from Authentique, one of my absolute favorite scrapbooking companies. I was so excited to play with their Christmas-theme line, Joyous. Gorgeous papers and embellishments! Be sure to visit Authentique's Facebook page for more awesome scrapbooking ideas.

The featured Kiwi Lane designer templates for December are the Large Brackets, Mini Scallops, and Christmas, all of which combine to create an awesome look for any Christmas project you might be creating this month.

But before you go, you must enter to win your very own set of Kiwi Lane Christmas Accessory templates. To enter, just do one of these:

• Subscribe to my blog (in the left nav) and leave a comment on this post telling me you're all signed up.
• Like my Facebook page and leave me a quick post there telling me you did it.

I'll announce the random winner on Dec. 23. Be sure to enter before midnight MST on Dec. 22. (I can only ship to United States -- thank you for your understanding.)

Good luck!

Embossing a Background

Recently, I took Jen Gallacher's class Scrapbook Stamper's Workshop at Two Peas. Loved that class. Jen's layouts are always inspiring, and she had a ton of ideas for using stamps on your layouts.

I was especially drawn to one technique Jen highlighted -- to use embossing powder to create a background for your layout. So I grabbed two different camera stamps (one from Amy Tangerine and one from a Lawn Fawn alpha set) and my white embossing powder to create this layout.

The rest of the papers and embellishments are from the Front Row kit from Studio Calico. I also used some zig-zag and straight stitching to add some texture.

I really love how those embossed cameras turned out. They look beautiful on the vellum. I need to remember to bring out my stamping supplies more often.

An easy way to add interest to a large strip of paper. I'll be doing this again soon.

Now it's your turn: When was the last time you embossed on your scrapbook pages? I challenge you to dig out those supplies and create something today...