Can You Handle the Pressure - Sentiment as Focus

Dear Ones~

  There's a new challenge up over at Can You Handle the Pressure.   For this challenge blog you MUST use an EMBOSSING FOLDER on your project.  Heat (wet) embossing is permitted but only in addition to your embossing folder design.  Each new challenge will have a 'TWIST' which is optional ... your choice to use or not.

The OPTIONAL TWIST for today's challenge is:

THE SENTIMENT AS FOCUS

 Here's my card:

I LOVE this greeting. What do you think??? The embossing folder I used is the much coveted and very sought after Matelasse from Anna Griffin. It is retired and very hard to find. I finally snagged it over on Ebay. Took me a long time to find it. Don't you love it when things work out?

The Ingredients:

Bazill Icy Mint card Stock

GKD White Card Stock

Tim Holtz Silver Metallic Card Stock

Anna Griffin Matelasse Embossing Folder

are 2B Artsy  Everything is Blooming Patterned Paper

Spellbinders mini Blooms and Sprigs Die Set

Crafter's Companion Your Kind of Crazy Stamp 

GKD Silver Embossing Powder

 

 

 

 

 If you head on over to the Can You Handle the Pressure Blog and play along, you could win this fabulous embossing folder, it's a stunner. Don't forget to check out all the beautiful cards the other designers have created.

 

 

Thank you so much for stopping by, your comments always make me smile. Please go take a look at the Can You Handle the Pressure blog, there's some wonderful inspiration over there. You won't be sorry.

 

Until next time dear reader, here's celebrating your Creative Muse.

~judy

Double D - Wheels

Dear Ones~

This time over at Double D our challenge is WHEELS. Here is the Mood Board for our inspiration:

And here is my card:

This is a very, VERY old mini stamp set from Gina K Designs. It's no longer available, of course, but I think it's sweet and have kept it all these years. I just die cut the image after stamping and heat embossing black, and then sponged a little on the background.

 

The Ingredients:

GKD White Card Stock

Recollections Very Violet Card Stock

GKD Enjoy the Sunshine Stamp Set

Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Square Die 

GKD Petite Flourish Embossing Folder

Versafine Clair Black Ink

GKD Clear Embossing Powder

Simon Says Stamp Tiny Greeting Stamp

Spellbinders Mini Blooms and Sprigs Die Set

GKD Ocean Mist and Lovely Lilac Inks

Trinity Stamps Pearl Baubles

 

If you head on over to the  Double D Challenge Blog and play along, you could win this cute die set by Impression Obsession, and don't forget to check out all the beautiful cards the other designers have created. 

You should take a minute to swing on over to the Double D Challenge and check it out. There's lots of inspiration to be had there.

 

Until next time dear readers, here's celebrating your Creative Muse!!

~judy

Can You Handle the Pressure - Dogd/Cats/Pets

Dear Ones~

 There's a new challenge up over at Can You Handle the Pressure.   For this challenge blog you MUST use an EMBOSSING FOLDER on your project.  Heat (wet) embossing is permitted but only in addition to your embossing folder design.  Each new challenge will have a 'TWIST' which is optional ... your choice to use or not.

The OPTIONAL TWIST for today's challenge is:

DOGS/CATS/PETS

Here's my card:

One of my dearest friends just lost her beautiful yellow lab. I know how she feels, we have lost many. I wanted to make her a card, and this is what I came up with. I embossed the three panels with three different embossing folders. The paper with the paw die was created with Nuvo Shimmer Powders. There's a lot of sparkle that you can't see in the photo.

 

The Ingredients:

Recollections Very Violet Card Stock

GKD White Card Stock

Strathmore Watercolor Paper

SU Stripes and Spatters Embossing Folder

SU Wrapped in Texture Embossing Folder

Park Lane JoAnn Embossing Folder

SSS Pawsitively Loved Die Set

Nuvo Shimmer Powders

SU Layered Circle Dies

SSS Tiny Words Stamp for Greeting

Ranger Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder

Top Dog Dies Banner #1 Die for Greeting

Trinity Stamps Bubble Bath Baubles

 

 

This is the sentiment on the inside, computer generated. I use it often, works for people or pets.

 

 

 If you head on over to the Can You Handle the Pressure Blog and play along, you could win this fabulous embossing folder, and don't forget to check out all the beautiful cards the other designers have created.

 

 Thank you so much for stopping by, your comments always make me smile. Please go take a look at the Can You Handle the Pressure blog, there's some wonderful inspiration there. You won't be sorry.

 

Until next time dear reader, here's celebrating your Creative Muse.

~judy

Double D - Lighthouse

 Dear Ones~

There's a new challenge up over at Double D, and this time it's LIGHTHOUSE. Here is the Mood Board for our inspiration:

And here's what I came up with:

I don't have a lot of beach-y ocean-y stuff. Probably because I live in Northern Michigan...lol. But this stamp set from Stampin' Up is just beautiful, and I'm so glad I got a chance to use it. There is a companion die set that's fabulous as well. For the background I took a piece of patterned paper that was a grid and stamped the compass image all over it. I love how it came out. Notice the knot I made with some twine? I learned how to do it from a video shared by one of my online bff's. Thanks Barb, you can watch it HERE.

A closeup of the knot. It's super easy and I think it looks fabulous!!

The Ingredients:

GKD Kraft, Navy and Ivory Card Stock

SU Sailing Home Stamp Set

SU Smooth Sailing Die Set

SU Under the Sea Framelits

My Mind's Eye Lush 2 - Navy Patterned Paper

GKD Night of Navy Ink

Simon Says Stamp Tiny Words Stamp for Greeting

 

 

 

If you head on over to the  Double D Challenge Blog and play along, you could win this fabuous die set by Cottage Cutz, and don't forget to check out all the beautiful cards the other designers have created.  

You should take a minute to swing on over to the Double D Challenge and check it out. There's lots of inspiration to be had there.

 

Until next time, here's celebrating your Creative Muse!!

~judy