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Susan Caplan
Product Review
Essential Glue Pad with Pigment Powders

Supplies:
Essential Glue Pad (Tsukineko)
Brush
Glue
Tissue
Black cardstock, white cardstock
Black ink pad (Versafine)
1/8” hole punch
Pop dots
Decorative Paper
Stamps (Deadbeat Designs and Stampendous)
Pigment powders: Duo blue-green, Micro Pearl, Flamingo Pink, Interference Blue
Edge Distressing tool (Heidi Swap)
Decorative edge scissors

Directions:
1.  Stamp image with glue pad onto black cardstock (2 ⅜” x 4 ½”).

2.  Apply pigment powder with brush, one color at a time until all the image is covered with powder.  Brush off excess, the lightly wipe over with tissue to clean up image. Set aside to dry thoroughly.

3.  Cut decorative paper 5 ½” x 2 ⅜” (top); 5 ½” x 1 ¾” (bottom)  and a strip of black cardstock cut with decorative edge scissors.  Adhere all to a white panel 5 ½” x 4 ¼” (this will give the decorative paper some support but will not show.)

4.  Stamp the background with black ink.

5.  Layer this panel onto slightly larger black panel.

6.  Adhere to folded white card front.

7.  Distress the edge of the butterfly card, with distressing tool, adhere to white cardstock, cut with decorative edge scissors.

8.  Punch hole on the lower left and upper right corners, attach ribbon through holes.

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