Rachael's Handmade Designs

Today's post is especially for the dudes. :-) I thought that this set from Visible Image Stamps was perfect for a little 'Mr. Handy' Birthday card. The main theme, other than tools, for this card is embossing. I love encouraging my customers to touch and feel the cards! The metal plate rubber stamp that I used for this birthday card is from the Heavy Metal stamp set , however there is a new background stamp, Metal Plate , that is larger than the one offered in the Heavy Metal Stamp set. Its brand new so check it out! ... I had some fabulous grey paper for the metal background! The metal plate is accented with four grommets and popped off the page with dimensionals for depth.  I wanted to incorporate white again on top of the grey, so I stamped out the drill from  Heavy Metal stamp set , covered it in opaque white embossing powder, heated it and popped it off the metal plate with dimensionals after I cut it out.  Visible Image ...

I chose to use a digital stamp (designed by the lovely Annie Rodrigue !) for my Dad, who runs his own import/export tobacco/pipe/cigar business. What do you think? The quote is from Mark Twain. Dad saw this card this morning and liked it and told me a story about how Mark Twain tried to quit smoking several times, but found that it would take him months to write a few chapters when he did. When he would start smoking again he would be able to just write and write and finish up his material, and then he would throw out the previous writing that he did prior to smoking again because "it wasn't worth reading." I thought it was a cute story.