Hello there!
I'm here today with an entry for the challenge over at Crafty Ribbons Challenge blog. The fabulous theme for this challenge is 'FEELING FRUITY'!
This is an extra special challenge as it includes a DT call and I am chancing my arm and putting myself forward for it! Fingers crossed, wish me luck! The details are here if you fancy a go too :)
Ok, on to my card;
Unfortunately I had to take this photo with my phone as my darling other half has pinched my camera for the day to do a survey! I mean, how rude! It does mean that it's quite difficult to see the contents of the glass :(
So anyway - fruit...Lime and Olives in a nice Martini - the best way to have fruit, surely?! Other than a nice glass of wine, of course ;)
I was lucky enough to win a £25 voucher for Crafty Ribbons a little while ago as part of their 'Crafting For Gold' event. My parcel of ribbon arrived the other day and it was like Christmas! The ribbon I used for this card was their grosgrain saddle stitch ribbon. I have it in nearly all the colours and it's great, so versatile!
I drew the Martini glass with my WOW! embossing pen and embossed in Ebony. Then I added the Martini and the fruit. I really like how bright and cheerful this card turned out, and I'm hoping the gals over at Crafty Ribbons agree :)
That's all for now, I will be back shortly with my other Viva La Verve challenge entries :)
Thanks for stopping by :)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Lime, Forest Green
Stamps: Waltzingmouse - Big Day Essentials
Ink: WOW! Embossing pen; SU! Black
Other: Crafty Ribbons - Lime/White Saddle Stitch ribbon; WOW! Ebony embossing powder;
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Hello there everybody!
I hope everyone's enjoying their Friday?! It's nearly the weekend - woo!
Friday means a new challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays and this week it's embossing;
I love embossing! I think I use it on pretty much every card I make in one way or another! After getting all excited I then couldn't think what to make at all - typical! After sitting for a little while and having a flick through my calendar to see what events were coming up, I remembered that one of my best friends has just set her wedding date! How exciting! Whether she'll want me to do/help with wedding stationery, I have no idea, but I thought I'd play around with some ideas for invitations :)
I used both types of embossing on this card - dry and heat embossing. The challenge is to emboss - I embossed! I stamped the image in white VersaColor ink and then embossed with white embossing powder. I then used my blending tool to blend Broken China Distress Ink over the image in and emboss resist - I always love how that turns out, don't know if you've noticed?!! :)
The bottom piece I embossed with Cuttlebug's Swiss Dots embossing folder. Another one of my little addictions is foam adhesive - dimension's important in CAS design I think :)
Anyway, after making this one I was looking at my other Distress Inks and wondering what this would look like in different colours - here's what happened next....
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| Victorian Velvet... |
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| Wild Honey... |
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| Crushed Olive... |
So yeh, I got a little carried away! I think they make a sweet little set though! :)
Thanks for dropping by and I hope to see ya again soon :)
Supplies:
Card: White 220gsm
Stamps: Snag 'em Stamps - To Love & Cherish; Studio G Clear Stamps - VC0012 Series 32
Ink: Distress Inks - Broken China, Victorian Velvet, Wild Honey, Crushed Olive; VersaColor -
White, Cyan; ColorBox Cat's Eyes - Marigold
Others: Rhinestones; Cuttlebug ef - Swiss Dots
