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MyMy project is featured in this week's Magenta newsletter, and I wanted to share it with you. You can view another post of this technique here. If you want to receive future editions of the Magenta Newsletter, you can sign up on their blog here. (There is a button to click under "Newsletter") Enjoy!

Backgrounds with Recycled Paper Towels by Dianne Jonhson - DT Magenta I love to play with Nuance, and when I do, I make lots of background cards at once. Recently I was making some backgrounds for Christmas cards, and I was cleaning up after each one with a paper towel.   You will need: White cardstock  Glue Stick Brayer Paper Towel And Magenta's Nuance Powder:  Click here for the product    1- Since it had lots of lovely Nuance colors on it, this paper towel was just too pretty to throw away.    3- You will then have 2 lovely pieces of paper towel to work with. 2- Paper towels usually have 2 plys. When your paper towel is dry, separate the plys by pulling them apart carefully. 4- Apply glue stick adhesive to a piece of cardstock. 5- Carefully place one of your paper towel pieces onto the prepared cardstock, and smooth it down. 7- Repeat Steps 4-6 with your second piece of paper towel. You now have 2 beautiful pieces of cardstock to use as you wish on a card. 6- Use a brayer to flatten the paper towel to the cardstock. This will smooth it further, and make sure that it adheres to the adhesive.    Voilà! Happy creation! Dianne Jonhson - DT Magenta

Technique of the Week: Paper Towel Stamping

I love my creative friends, I honestly do. This technique is courtesy of my friend Eion. You know how much I love to use paper towels in my craft; well, Eion took this and ran with it. He was "playing around with ink" one night, and he wanted to stamp certain shapes that he didn't have. He rolled up paper towels into little stumps and inked them up and stamped with them! I love it!

Take a fairly thin strip of paper towel - maybe about 2.5" wide. Fold it on both long sides so that you have 2 smooth edges, and then roll it up. When you've rolled it all the way up, tape it so that it doesn't come unrolled. I made two different sizes for this card.

Ink up one of the ends of your roll, and stamp with it. Your stamping will look a little like a rose or cabbage rose. Love it! He also showed me that if you fold your paper towel into a small square, and ink a corner, you can make what look like distant hills or mountains. I used this folding to simulate leaves in the flower clusters.

I loved this, and I hope that you will give it a try. My stampings are a little heavy handed, and I think a light touch is more interesting.

Here is a bonus tip for you: If you get ink on your mat, and then get it on the front of your card when you are putting it together....ahem...and I never do this! But if you DO, you can clean it up with a touch of bleach.  All of you who came to the Christmas Party know that I keep a couple of water brushes with bleach in them (100% bleach), and this can work wonders. Not too much, just a light touch. A few well placed sequins don't hurt anything either!

Magenta Stamp Used:

Anyone Who Keeps the Ability-Kafka Quote 07.590.J

Anyone Who Keeps the Ability 07.590.J

Other Products Used:

Distress Ink:

Picked Raspberry

Worn Lipstick

Mowed Lawn

So Silk Beauty Pink paper