Bunco envelopes

Do you belong to a Bunco group? It took me years of hinting before I was invited to sub in a local Bunco group, and couple of years of brown-nosing after that to get invited to be a regular.   This week will be my first time hosting, and I want to make a good impression.

I looked through the Bunco box, and I am going to make a couple of upgrades.  First of all, I'm replacing the dice, which must be as old as the Bunco group itself - half of them have the dots worn off.  Not a big deal - dice are cheap.  The second thing that I decided had to go is the old, torn envelopes that they were using to hold the money.  They weren't even plain white ones; they have the return address of someone's business in the upper left corner.  I decided to try and make fancy ones.

I handwrote the different prizes on them using a doodle alpha, colored it in with a versamarker, then embossed with iridescent embossing powder.  Then, using the wild rose stamp set from a•muse studio, I layered on roses in different colors of distress ink (Tip: did you know that distress ink can be used for embossing?) and embossed each layer with clear EP.  Finally, I burnished away the last bit of white.

I don't know if the other ladies will like them, but they will have to replace them with something good if they don't.

Challenges:

• Polkadoodles - make your own background
• Art Impressions stamps - floral frenzy
• Top Tip Tuesday - office supplies
• Created with Love - for the girls
• Crazy Challenge - anything but a card