Rainbow Meadow

Today's card features one of the stamps from a set by Viva Decor called 'Background Meadows'. I inked it up with Distress Inks (Festive Berries, Spiced Marmalade, Scattered Straw, Mowed Lawn, Salty Ocean, Chipped Sapphire & Dusty Concord), then stamped it on to watercolour paper. I added a sentiment from the 'Go To Words' set by Visible Image, then distressed the edges before adding the panel to a kraft card blank.

Challenges for this card:

• Allsorts - Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
• Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes (Optional 'Summer Flowers')
• The Flower Challenge - CAS
• We Love Stamping - Anything Goes (Optional 'Fabulous Florals')

Background Meadow Sympathy

I have another simple sympathy card to share today...this time featuring one of the stamps from the 'Background Meadow' set by Viva Decor. I stamped it along the bottom edge of a kraft card blank, using Versamark Ink, along with a sentiment from the 'Sketched Flower' set by Simon Says Stamp, then heat embossed them using 'Metallic Gold' embossing powder by WOW. 

I love the way gold looks against kraft, but it's not the easiest thing to capture in a photograph, so here's another view:

Challenges for this card:

• AAA Cards - Along the Edge
• Corrosive - Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• Creative Moments - Anything Goes
• Simply Create Too - Wet or Dry Embossing

Little Snowy

Today's card features the same background stamp I used on my last card, but this time I heat embossed it on kraft card in white to make a snowy sky. The little snowman is from the 'holly-jolly' set by Penny Black...I stamped him on to watercolour paper, drew a line for the snowy ground, then coloured him using watercolour pencils before carefully cutting around the top of the image. I added him over the top of the snowy background, matted it on to a snippet of white card, then on to a kraft card blank. The sentiment stamp is from a set by the Colorado Craft Company and is heat embossed in white.

Challenges for this card:

• Addicted to CAS - Snow
• Cardz 4 Guyz - Let it Snow
• Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes
• Creatalicious - Anything Goes (Optional 'Use Kraft')
• Creative Knockouts - Anything Goes
• Everybody Art - Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Make Your Own Background
• Stamps + Fun = Creativity - Anything Goes
• The Holly & the Ivy - Anything Christmas Goes

Blue & Gold

Today's card features new (to me) stamps from the 'Background Meadows' set by Viva Decor. I started by stamping the 'bubbly' background stamp on to watercolour paper using 'Stormy Sky' Distress Ink, then once dry, I stamped the floral stamp over the top using Versamark Ink, then heat embossed it with 'Metallic Gold' embossing powder from WOW. I trimmed down the panel, matted it on to some gold card, then added it to a white card blank, and finished the card with a gold heat embossed sentiment (from the 'Go To Words' set by Visible Image).

Challenges for this card:

• Allsorts - Something New (New Stamps)
• Crafter's Cafe - New (New Stamps)
• Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Make Your Own Background
• Sweet Stampin' - Thank You
• Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
  

Sunset Meadow

Today's card features a couple of items that I received for Christmas...a floral stamp from a set called 'Background Meadow' by Viva Decor, and a new colour of Distress Ink called 'Crackling Campfire'. I started by blending Distress Inks (Wild Honey, Crakling Campfire, Fired Brick & Dusty Concord) on to a snippet of white card to create a sunset effect, then stamped the flowers over the top using black ink...stamping several times to get a really crisp black silhouette. I distressed the edges a little, then added a die cut sentiment (cut using a die from my Cuttlebug 'Olivia' alphabet set), before adding the panel to a white card blank.

Challenges for this card:

• Cards Galore Encore - Anything Goes
• Creative Knockouts - Something to Say
• Happy Little Stampers (Dies) - Anything Goes
• My Time to Craft - Thank You
• Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes
• Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes