Guest Designer - Ashley ~ Crackerbox Stamps Blog

July 14, 2015

Guest Designer - Ashley

By Unknown July 14, 2015 // 4 comments

Oooooh, I am a super big fan of stunning sunsets! Talk about palettes of insane color and our Guest Designer this week has a wicked cool card with a gorgeous sunset! What do you say we meet Miss Ashley and see what kind of fabulous cards she has in store for us?

I was super excited when I received the email inviting me to be a guest designer for So Suzy Stamps. I recently found their snarky stamps and I love them. If snark isn't your thing though, don't worry. They have plenty of other really cute stamp sets to choose from. Today I'm sharing a couple of cards I made on the SSS blog.

For this card, I used the Open Road stamp. I have lots of photos I could use this stamp on in my scrapbook pages but I also envisioned a sunset created with distress ink blending. So that's how I made this card.

I started with the Herb 4 stamp set. I stamped it along the bottom of my card base with Versamark and then heat embossed with white. Then I started from the bottom with yellow distress ink and started working up the card base with into oranges and reds. I stamped the sentiment with Versamark right in the middle of the card and heat embossed it with black embossing powder.

For my second card, I used the Built from Fire stamp set and I LOVE this sentiment.

For my background, I used a stencil and Dreamweaver's crackled embossing paste to make the bricks. I applied gold embossing powder and heat embossed the embossing paste, which gave the bricks some texture. I applied Tim Holtz distress ink in Barn Door to the whole background of the card. Around the edges, I applied Aged Mahogany and then used my distress tool to rough up all the edges. I used a sanding tool to lightly go over the whole card for a little bit of distressing. Then I inked my sentiment and looped an anchor paperclip through some twine for a finishing touch.