Chalkboard Technique

Hello crafty friends!

I hope you are having a lovely day!

Today I have three love themed cards to share with you, each in their own blog post. :-)
[Card #2: Hugs & Kisses Chalkboard and Card #3: Lots of Hearts]

The first one uses the Chalkboard Technique, and I love this technique! It was great to just play around with my stamps and place them randomly on the card.

For this technique I first white emboss the images and then off stamp with Memories white ink to create the shadow effect. Lastly, I smudge some Colorbox Frost White ink across the whole panel to make it look like chalk.

Hugs,
Tone

Challenges:  Hero Arts: Love & Lace, Simon Says: Anything Goes

Supplies for all three cards

InLinkz.com

Elegant Anniversary Card

Hello hello!

Today's card was for a colleague of mine. He wanted to give his wife a special card for their anniversary, and they both really liked the card I made! :-)

This is a larger card: 5.5 by 8.5 inches (one piece of card stock folded in half). I first stamped and heat embossed the Heart Flourish several times, then stamped the script in white over it and distressed the edges with white. The butterflies are stamped in Dusty Concord Distress Ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. The sentiment is stamped in Versafine Smokey Gray and also clear embossed. Lastly, I added all the pieces to the stamped panel and adhered that to the card front.

Here is a close up for you, so you can see the lovely dimension of the butterflies better.

Thank you so much for visiting! :-)

Have a wonderful day!

Love,
Tone

Challenges:  Hero Arts: Love & Lace, Simon Says: Anything Goes.

Supplies

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Valentine's Card with Lots of Hearts

Hi there!

Finally I had an excuse to stamp out all these lovely hearts for a very girly Valentine's card, and I love it! :-)

I started by masking off the area where I wanted my sentiment. Then I randomly stamped all the hearts in pink, purple and red inks and applied pink distress ink over the trail of hearts. Then I removed the mask and stamped the sentiment.

To make the stamped panel pop, I colored the edges of a white card base with pink distress ink. I had used Picked Raspberry first, but this pink was too bright. I tried to apply Worn Lipstick over it, but still it was too bright. To tone down the pink, I applied Picked Fence distress stain until I was happy with the color.

For some added interest, I added three pink Enamel Dots. These dots are just so yummy! Did you get yourself some already? :-)

Have a wonderful Tuesday!

Love,
Tone

Challenges: Hero Arts: Love & Lace, Simon Says: Have A Heart, CFC98: Love Song, Paper Crafts February 2013 Gallery Challenge, Little Tangles: love, love, love.

Supplies

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