Try dry embossing using a stencil, like the Chatterbox Doodle Genie.  Sand the embossed area for the core color to be revealed. Then add your picture and you’re done!

Here is a little about Hera in her own words:

I fell in love with my Swiss husband almost 13 years ago under the Eifel Tower! We now have 2 sons, aged 6 and 10. I am from New Zealand originally but have lived in Germany and Switzerland for the last 14 years. Before children I was an accountant but my creative-side emerged almost four years ago and after my family, scrapbooking rules my life – from what we wear to where we go to how we pose!! Inspiration arrives in many forms for me – from the mouths and hearts of my children, the grocery packaging, crossing the border to one of the 5 countries that surround us or just by relaxing with my morning cappuccino whilst drooling over the latest home and garden magazine. I have had several creations published in magazines in the United States, England, Australia and New Zealand but best of all, is seeing my two sons browsing the albums all about our life!

Check out all the repeating circles on this layout by Hera. It really keeps your eye moving around the page to see all the different Core’dination Cardstock she used {Chocolate Box with green core, Vintage Flower Power and Core Essentials Green}.

Don’t forget that tomorrow is the LAST day to get your projects linked to this post for our contest! The entries have been great so far!

Sarah Hodgkinson, DT Core’dinator
Cari Locken
Debbie Standard
Ellen Sosnoski
Heather Bowser
Hera Frei
Kandis Smith
Kim Moreno
Kimber McGray
Linda Beeson
Lydia Jackson
Melissa Oliveira
Molly Peckham
Paula Gilarde

Over the next week or so we will be posting more information about each designer so that you can get to know them just a little bit better.