doctrine of signatures: noun

a theory in old natural philosophy: the outward appearance of a body signals its special properties (as of magic or healing virtue) and there is a relationship between the outward qualities of a medicinal object and the diseases against which it is effective

example:" Lungwart -The broad, elongated white-spotted leaves of this plant were thought to resemble the lung and used to treat pulmonary ailments."

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Perfect Sentiments - Metal Embellished Birthdays Challenge

 

This is truly a handmade card, no one said to make it difficult, it just happen to elvove that way. First I was making this wall hanging for the 2013 Tim Holts tags and I needed some gears so I downloaded some clip art and cut them out, then I needed to add the color blue for the Helmar challenge so I decided to dry emboss with my gelato.

Here is yesterdays project with the blue embossed gears:

Now that meant the gelato would come off onto my rubber embossing mat so I laid a piece of white paper between the 2 layers. I actually loved what happened, the clip art gears acted as a mask and created the gear shapes in white with a blue embossed background which I used as my background for the card.

On the base card I stuck down my silver metal tape ( the kind you get from a harware store, I believe it's called Flashing Tape, careful, you can cut yourself on it ), then added 3 mini screw brads ( top and bottom ) and used my dry embossing tool to doodling around the edges of the metal tape.

 

Faber Castell - metallic gelato ( blue and silver ), Pitt Pen

Flashing Tape - misc.

Eyelet Outlet - gear brad

Karen Foster - mini screw brads

font - Army Stencil without lines