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.
Thanks so much for
checking out my cards today and be sure to visit the So Suzy Stamp Store to
see all the other snarky (or not) stamp sets!
Nice cards!! The background is impresive!
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I love how people use the sentiments for things I would have never thought about. Very creative. I love your cards
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ReplyDeleteLove the color schemes on both the cards! ^__^ Very pretty!!!
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