SFTW - Distress It

It's time for the latest Stampin' For the Weekend challenge "Distress It".  Most of you have a little more free time for getting crafty so I hope you'll play along.  If your style is crisp and clean distressing can be a little intimidating but give it a try, you will probably find out that you like it.  It's fun to smudge ink on the edges of your paper.  OR, if you use a die you can smudge the ink around the inside edge of the die so that when the die is removed it looks like it has a white mat around it.  That's what was done on the ornament die for this card.  The same ink was used around the edges of the embossed panel.  It's your turn, if you're not ready and need a more inspiration stop over at SFTW to see what the rest of the design team has created. When you're finished link up your card.  We all want to see it.

 

Here's the deets:

stamp - Flourishes "Snow Days"

ink - Memento "Tuxedo Black"; Ranger "Antique Linen"

paper - My Favorite Things "Krat" card stock; Cosmo Cricket "More Jolly By Golly - Oh Joy Frosty" dsp

miscellaneous - Prismacolor pencil; Spellbinder's "2011 Heirloom Ornament" die; Tim Holtz "Snow Flurries" embossing folder

 

Here's the challenges:

Stampin' for the Weekend - Distress It

Merry Monday #49 - sketch

CRAFT #194 - Christmas in February

Charisma #6 - Anything Goes

Tuesday Throw Down #134 - Anything Goes

 

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A Season That Sparkles

This Friday Flourishes will have their biggest release ever. Their October release is six sets of stamps. The sneak peeks started today but if you've ever cruised through their collection you know that the stamps will be classy and beautiful, and certainly something you'd want to own. They've posted the Season That Sparkles Challenge. The winner of the challenge will receive the entire release so I wanted to enter.
So for this challenge I chose the "Wreaths of all Seasons" set. I stamped the winter wreath in Versamark and embossed it with silver powder on SU Confetti White card stock and then colored it with SU watercolor crayons and covered it with stickles for extra sparkle. The papers are Creative Memories "Candy Cane" and DCWV card stock. All of the paper were sponged and edged with Ranger's Distress Ink Faded Jeans. The border punch is Fiskar's Sunburst with Basic Gray Half Pearls and there are dew drops in the upper corners.
I haven't has much time to stamp since last week and it's late already so forgive the quick post. Thanks for visiting, please click the pink ribbon before you go.

Fight Like a Girl

Before you do anything else go over to the sidebar and click on the pink ribbon. I'm not asking politely today, I'm telling you to do it. You have no excuses, it takes about ten seconds and you can back arrow to be right back here. If you're breathing you should know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. If you're a mammal you have breasts, male or female you can get breast cancer. It's a vicious ugly killing disease and I hate it. I will click that button, I will shop on that site, I will make donations and I will keep asking and or telling you to click on the button till be defeat the disease. So FIGHT LIKE A GIRL, do whatever you can to join the fight. You can eat Yoplait yogurt and send in the lids and the company will donate $.10 per lid. You can walk or run and get donations for doing it, at my job you can make a donation and get to wear blue jeans. Use your mind and think positive thoughts, envision a world where no one ever has to fear the loss of health, life or tissue. FIGHT LIKE A GIRL. Do anything and everything you can, that's how real girls fight.

The Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge #36 is to Use Pink as the Main Color. I used the Flourishes stamp set "Think Pink - Fight Like a Girl". The minute I saw that set I logged onto the store to buy it. First of all it's reast Cancer awareness, secondly, it has a flamingo in it, duh! and the flamingo has ribbons on its body and the "fight like a girl" sentiment is in two sizes and I just love the sentiment, so much that I stamped it all over the card stock base of this card.

I stamped the background in Su Pixie Pink and SU Pink Passion, the dress is stamped with Pink Passion and embossed it with clear powder, and popped up on dimensionals. The edges of the base were sponged with those inks too.

The layout is the for the Mojo Monday Mojo Madness 107 challenge. I stayed pretty true to the sketch. The dp is Stemma "Pretty Petals" and those fun pink circles are Em-bella-shments. Cute aren't they.

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Didn't I Say That...

I don't like to make Christmas cards or words to

that affect in an earlier post? I've been saying that for years. It's another case of what you resist persists. I prefer not to make or send Christmas cards so of course I keep finding challenges and stamp sets that are for Christmas. Go Figure, I've stopped trying to figure it out. I guess I'm going to have to start a list...

I recently purchases the Flourishes "Wreaths of All Seasons" set and decided to use one of them for this week's Flourish Timeless Tuesday challenge #35 to extend our creations outside the frame. The Simon Says Challenge this week is a colour challenge to use red and green. That color choice made me go to one of my all time favorite papers, Basic Grey, "Figgy Pudding - Forest" and to use the winter wreath stamp. This wreath is all twiggy and it seemed to me that it should be embossed in gold. Don't Christmas cards with gold embossing look rich. To get some more layers I pulled out a paper that I thought would match well, Basic Grey "Wassail - Cranberry Sauce". The pattern on this paper is also similar to the wreath. It's double sided so I flipped it for the middle solid red layer. So using the Basic Grey paper and embossing the wreath makes it work for the Basic Grey Week 4 challenge - embossing and the ABC challenge E is for Embossing.

Even thought Basic Grey prints it's paper to have a distressed look I still decided to sponge and edge the design papers with Ranger Vintage Photo. It adds another layer of richness. The Cranberry sauce paper was cut with the nestibilities die Label One. The corners of the solid red square were punched with an SU corner punch and the ribbon is thread through slots also punched with an SU punch and CTMH red bling was put in the corners and red stickle dots were added to the wreath. Each layer was pushed up with dimensionals.

Last week on an MFT forum Kim asked us to post the first card we made using and MFT stamp and that got some discussions on how much our stamping has evolved. Using the dimensionals to pump up the different layers is one of the biggest improvements to my cards. I had used them before but just occasionally now they seem to be on almost every card I make and they do make a difference. Also I distress the cards in one way or another most of the time. There's a lot more variety of embellishing now too. As I list the things I'm doing more of it's becoming apparent to me that I am doing a lot more now than when I made my first MFT card.

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