For Lesley's (aka lionsmane) Merry Monday Challenge over on her Always Playing with Paper blog, we were given a sketch challenge this week.
I used a 5" square card base with a dp that was shimmery blue on one side and a snowflake pattern on the other. It had some silver in the snowflake pattern so instead of the ribbon shown on the sketch, I used a narrow strip of silver with a vertical sentiment on it.
Both the sentiment and my focal image snowflake were stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with a sparkly white ep. The snowflake was stamped on white cardstock as I also wanted to do the Mix-Ability challenge from last week "It's not Hard to Resist" - use the embossing resist technique. After stamping and embossing the snowflake on the white cs, I cut it out with a Nestie, left the die in place, and sponged over the snowflake with a whole variety of blue inks until I got it more or less the colour of the dp.
Date: Friday, February 15, 2013 GMT Views: 1788
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Registered: March 31, 2008 Location: Eastlake, OH Posts: 22598
Fri, Feb 15, 2013 @ 3:38 PM
I love your snowflake card Susan! It looks so great with the embossing almost as if it was flocked? That paper with the snowflake circles is great- in fact I ordered it 3 times!
Registered: July 28, 2008 Location: Cary, North Carolina Posts: 8728
Sat, Feb 16, 2013 @ 2:29 PM
This is so pretty, Susan! I love how your sponging perfectly matches the paper and the elegance of the embossing! Thanks for sharing this with us at Merry Monday!
Registered: February 3, 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 2102
Sat, Feb 16, 2013 @ 9:59 PM
Hi Susan,
I always forget to emboss and I love how that snowflake looks in wintry white, embossed and classy! I am so happy you are joining us!! Thank you for playing at Merry Monday!
Hugs,
Lesley
------------------------------ Lesley Croghan
Designer for SugarPea Designs