Peace Within- Three Challenges in One!

Hi Stampers!

I had a few minutes to stamp this evening and decided to create a card using a few of the soon to be retired stamp sets, Plant Hope and Peace Within.  I just received the Plant Hope set and love the tree images and wanted to participate with The Paper Players PP91 Watercolor CAS Challenge.  

I decided to incorporate the CQC133ColourQ Colors and the FM31 Freshly Made Sketch.  Again, all of these sites have wonderful weekly challenges and their  Design Team samples and entries are fabulous!  

  

To create the watercolor background paper, use the Aqua Painter to lift ink from the inside of the ink pad from More Mustard and Dusty Durango.  Create strokes onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock (or you could use Watercolor paper) and use the Heat Tool to lightly dry the paper.

 

Ink the background stamp, En Francais with Basic Gray and stamp over the lightly damp paper.  Continue to dry the paper with the Heat Tool (being careful not to scorch the paper:-)).

Once dry, stamp the tree image with Versamark™ ink, apply Stampin’ Emboss® Black Embossing Powder and emboss with the Heat Tool.

Cut the image with the Framelits™ Die and layer with another die cut from Basic Black. Adhere the focus image to the Basic Gray panel (embossed with the Herringbone Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder) and finish off with the 5/8” Black Satin Bow and sentiment. 

Stamp Sets:  Plant Hope, En Francais, Peace Within

Ink: Basic Black, Basic Gray, More Mustard, Dusty Durango (retired)

Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Basic Gray, Dusty Durango (retired)

Accessories:  Big Shot™, Framelits™ Label Collection Die, Herringbone Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder, Heat Tool, Stampin’ Emboss® Black Embossing Powder, Punches- Large Oval and Curly Label,  5/8”  Black Satin Ribbon

Thanks again for taking the time to visit and all of your encouraging comments- I read each and every one and feel that all of you are my friends!  Thank you for your "friendship" and I hope you have a great time creating and sharing the love of stamping! 

FM31 With Gratitude

Hi Stampers! 

WooHoo!!  This month I have the privilege of being a Guest Designer for the Friday Mashup!

What a honor to work with such a talented team of Designers and I hope you will take the time to visit the site to see each of their beautiful creations.

So here’s the FM31 Gratitude "Mashup" Challenge:

1.             Make a project featuring "Heat Embossing".

2.            Or Make a "Thank You (Grateful)" project.  

3.            Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Thank You Project using Heat Embossing".

To create this card:

Use the Big Shot™ with the Top Note Bigz ™ Die to cut a piece of Early Espresso and emboss it with the Herringbone Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder. 

Emboss a piece of the Mocha Morning Designer Series Paper with the Square Lattice Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder and adhere the Early Espresso Top Note to the Mocha Morning layer.  Adhere this to a layer of Early Espresso.

De-static a piece of More Mustard with the Embossing Buddy® and stamp the leaf images with Versamark™ ink.  Apply Stampin’ Emboss® Gold Embossing Powder and heat with the Heat Tool.   Carefully cut out the leaves around the embossed lines.

Also heat emboss the sentiment with the Gold EP onto Whisper White and dry emboss with the Big Shot™ and the Decorative Oval Frame Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folder. 

Layer the sentiment and leaves onto the Top Note/DSP layer, adhere the gold satin ribbon bow (I have a "ton" of this luscious ribbon in my stash and just had to use it) and mount onto Whisper White and More Mustard to finish off the card.

Stamp Sets:  Autumn Splendor, Day of Gratitude

 Ink: Versamark™

Cardstock:  Whisper White, More Mustard, Early Espresso, Mocha Morning DSP

Accessories:  Big Shot™, Top Note Bigz™ Die, Textured Impressions™ Embossing Folders- Herringbone, Square Lattice, Decorative Oval Frame, Embossing Buddy®, Heat Tool, Stampin’ Emboss® Gold Embossing Powder, 1 ½” Gold Satin Ribbon (from my stash)

Thanks again for your visit and I am so grateful for all of you!  As you can see, I decided to "Mash It Up" and hope you will join us too!