Birthday for a Young Man

Welcome - as promised, another card.

 I will let the pictures speak for themselves and keep the words to a minimum.

I started out with a totally different idea, but it just did not work, so I changed tack, and this is the result.

The main image was stamped in a deep red on kraft card stock.

The scripture was gold embossed and sponged before I mounted it on foam dots.

The sentiment was also gold embossed and the edges sponged, before being mounted over raffia ribbon on foam dots.

The contrast between the red on green really made this card come to life.


I am linking this to:
Crafty Pad Designs Challenge #152 - Anything But Christmas
Sparkles forum Challenge - 1st Birthday - Anything But a Christmas Card
Penny Black Allsorts December Challenge - Happy Birthday
Paper Sundaes Challenge #100 - Celebrate
One Stitch at a Time challenge #93 - Anything Goes
Corrosive Challenge #139 - Anything but Christmas
Paper Creations challenge #15 - something old (stamp set) something new (ink)

Thank you for visiting - may your day be blessed.

Recipe:

Stamps: Our Daily Bread Designs Keep My Lamp Burning

            hero Arts Little Happy birthday

Inks: Clear embossing, Pearlescent Poppy

Accessories: Gold ep, raffia

Green Birthday

Welcome once again - I am back this time with a card inspired by the

Stampin' Sisters In Christ Challenge this week.

The challenge is based on this scripture,

Lam 3:22 –23 “The faithful love of the LORD never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is His faithfulness; His mercies begin afresh each morning.”

And I would encourage you to go over to their site and read through the devotion there.  The challenge itself is to: 

Dig deep into your craft cupboard and use something from your stash that you 'just had to have' cause you would use it everyday....but have forgotten about...

I thought about this for a day or so, and went right back to my beginning days when I did not know about bling or die cuts etc, and I had bought several balls of plastic raffia, and a huge sheet of finely corrugated card from the local stationers... and have hardly used them!! These were my starting points.

I then saw a piece of card on my desk that was a 'trial' in colour blocking using watercolour crayons and spritzing , after it was dry I sprayed it with a silver glimmer mist.  I was not happy with it for the card I planned then, but it 'fitted' this card.

Here you can see some of the sheen it has.

I chose this quote from the Layers of Color Encouragement set and stamped it in bottle ink on the lemon card stock.  After cutting it with a Labels 14 Nestabilites die I sponged it with Memento Dandelion ink.  I also used that ink to sponge the edge of the coloured card.

The raffia was wound around the green corrugated card and secured with a bow, and adorned with a green rhinestone.

The sentiment was stamped and embossed - I love this sentiment as it is elegant but does not 'hog the limelight' on a card like this.

The final details were the rhinestones and the butterflies, flowers and leaves which were part of some paper lace (another acquisition that I just 'had' to have....) that I cut up and adhered randomly around the card.

I am linking this to:

Stampin' Sisters in Christ - challenge #101 - stash "had to haves"

Thanks for calling in - may your day be blessed