Part 2 of Challenge cards

 

Good Morning Ladies, 

Here we are at the mid point of the week, it was another really chilly day yesterday, but it was dry though and quite bright, so not too bad. 

I had a really lazy day yesterday, I really felt the effects of a few weeks of very little sleep, I think it does us all good to have a 'do nothing' day, I watched craft TV and just chilled out. I was very good and didn't buy anything though.

Today's card is the 'Non Christmas' version of yesterday's card, both cards were made from the Free John Lockwood stamp set in the Creative Stamper magazine.

I started out with a very pale lilac piece of card (you can just see the colour in the background ), the first thing I did was to dust over the whole piece with an Anti Static bag, to make sure there were no fingerprints that would attract the embossing powder!  I then picked our 5 foliage stamps from the Magazine stamp set and randomly stamped them all over my background, making sure to stamp off the edge to give a better effect.  I added Extra Fine white Embossing Powder to my stamped images and then shook off the excess, I heat set the powder and added a couple more stamped leaves to fill the spaces.                                                                                                                                                      The next job was to start building up the Distress ink, I started in the centre with Milled Lavender Distress ink, I just blended the ink in an oval kind of shape right in the centre of the card, I then moved onto the Dusty Concord Distress ink, blending out from the centre to the edges, the final colour I added to the very edges was Chipped Sapphire, it really gave definition to the edge of the card.                      After I had finished inking I took a piece of Kitchen towel and wiped over all of the white embossing, then I took a white Posca pen and went all over the card adding tiny white dots in groups of three. I was surprised at the difference it made to the look of the card.                                                                  My final touch for the background of this card was to add some Sparkle I used some of the Heidi Swapp Clear Sparkle mist, you can see the dots of it all over although it doesn't really show up as sparkle in the photo.                                                                                                                                For the sentiment, I wanted to show as much of the background off as possible so I decided to use a piece of Vellum with the sentiment stamped on in white to match the rest of the card, I attached the vellum with tape at the back of the card.

I am really pleased with how it turned out, it looks as though there is a light shining on the centre of the card making it appear lighter, but there isn't!                                                                                        I really hope you like the technique too.

Have a lovely Wednesday Ladies,

Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra                                                                                                                                                      xxxxxx