Greetings...my Saturday marathon of cardmaking started with the Bi-Weekly Hero Arts Flickr group scramble. Natalie was our hostess, and she asked us to use some of our oldest Hero Arts holiday stamps to make a card. I picked out two stamps that I purchased when I first became interested in cardmaking, CG230 Happy Holiday Trees and CG472 Snowflakes N Ornaments.
Both of these cards were stamped and heat embossed, one of my favorite techniques. A bit of ribbon, twine and some bling...and they were done.
After completing some chores and making dinner, I again sat down to see if I could make a couple more cards. I still had the Happy Holiday Tree Stamp out, so I thought about what I could do differently. This is such a fantastic stamp. Stamping
the image shows snow topped branches, and when you clear emboss it and
use a resist technique it still shows snowy branches - Genius stamp.
(it is available at Hero Arts in limited supply)
I decided to clear emboss the image after stamping it twice across the landscape orientation of an A2 card. I decided to color in a night time sky with Distress Inks in Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot. I added a few white dots with a white gel pen for stars and then a simple Simon Says Stamp Sentiment from the Be Joyful set. The sentiment is heat embossed in gold.
I fell in love with this card. It is so simple yet, I can't help but smile looking at it. Hubs promptly requested it be "his" card for the season. So, I gathered supplies, cut card stock and stamped, embossed and inked for much of the night into the wee hours recreating this card for him to mail out his Christmas greetings.
I am entering it in
Virginia's View Challenge #10 - All Things Distressed. The challenge is open til the 17th.
Thanks much for stopping by!
