Background stamps

Background stamps are wonderful, this one is by Lucy's Stamps and resembles a paint splatter. These take under 10 minutes to make if you wanted a quick card. I also emboss the feature stamps in black to allow the stamp image to stand out against the background.

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These are really fun to make CASE Study Challenge # 75

On this card I used a mixture of Red Opaque CB-002, Fuchia Opaque CB-0005, Rose Opaque CB-0004 and black microbeads from PennyWiseArts run by Suzanne Glazier. The flower is one I made from punches and the butterfly is from Prima. The sentiment is by Layers of Colours Fairy Wishes SCN-0608-004

 Here's a close up of what the beads look like, very subtle colouring of some colours

This CASE study challenge came from Jen Rzasa via CASE Study Challenge # 75 

I've been playing

Another post I found sitting in limbo LOL

This 10 minute Thursday challenge has given me my mojo back

Thursday 10 minute card challenge Oct 29th

It's Thursday again and the 10 minute card challenge

that Sandi MacIver and Carole' Anne Sluchinski

do each week keeps my mojo going.

I also wanted to do a challenge which

involved male cards so this actually

qualified for the 10minute card

except it only took me 5 minutes to make.

I even managed to make 15 in an hour so that's

how it came to be 5 minute cards.

The production line is for my contribution

for cards I am sending to the troops in

the battle fields so they in turn can

send home to their loved ones.

Check out this letter from a appreciative

recipient, it makes it all so worthwhile creating

for this cause

From Our Hearts

Thursday 10 minute card challenge

I'm on a roll here, it's the Thursday 10minute

challenge that I've been following on

Sandi MacIver and Carole'Anne Sluchinski's

blogs that they will publicly set up so everyone

can follow and participate in.

This is my second one today, as you can see from

the time on both my challenges.

I did the first one here about 7 hours ago

ok so I got the theme wrong-lets say I was just

practising my 10 min time slot as I have

never timed myself before.

Wish I had a fancy clock like they do!!!

Click on the picture to view in large size

Ingredients:

Embossing powder, embossing gun, embossing surface

(mine is a wooden cutting board covered in foil)

Gold and Silver Krylon pens

Stamps, embossing buddy

Stampin! Up ribbon-Real Red and

Always Artichoke grosgrain,

Stampin! Up double rectangle punch,

Cardstock: Stampin! Up Very Vanilla, Kraft

I never used to think that it was important to

use stamping buddy before applying embossing

powder, but recently I've had to succumb to it and

I am now a faithful user, it saves a lot of heartache!

Not to mention wasted cardstock.

Ink up image with versamark and add gold

embossing powder

Heat with heat tool (not hairdryer!)

I then used a Krylon Gold pen around the edge

of the cardstock to give it an edge

Using a Stampin! Up double rectangle punch

just above the bauble

Thread ribbon through the holes

tie a knot to secure, I tried to cheat and

only tie a bow but it didn't work and the bow

ended up upside down

then a bow (sorry about the blurry picture)

snip off excess

Adhere onto Kraft cardstock

Stamped up sentiment with versamark

and gold embossing powder

hit it with a heat tool

...voila 10 minutes

Here is the finished card using Silver embossing powder

and Always Artichoke grosgrain ribbon

This one has gold embossing powder and

Real Red grosgrain ribbon