Hello Friends,
I am here with a couple of cards for the Papertery Ink Blog Hop. The inspiration this month is all about Black Backgrounds! Here is the inspiration photo from Nichole's blog:
I had two different ideas when I saw the inspiration for this month. The first was to do a blackboard like card with stamps and drawing with a versamark marker for borders. The second was based on the striped card in the middle at the bottom of the inspiration photo. I had an idea to make a striped card with two colors of cardstock (red and black) and dry embossing for Valentine's Day. Here are my cards:
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| The borders around the heart, the arrow and the borders around the "blackboard" are all hand drawn with a versamark marker and then embossed. The stamp is from "With All My Heart". |
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| This card is embossed with the In Bloom impression plate. And then I embossed a sentiment also from "With All My Heart" and added some bling to finish it off. I will say that even with using some anti-static supplies I still had problems embossing on the black cardstock without having stray powder no matter how hard I tried! I am going to have to do some research on how best to emboss. It is very damp and wet here in Seattle and I wonder if the moisture makes it more difficult for me? If anyone knows some tips or tricks I would love to know them too! :) |
Thanks for looking at my cards!
I am ready to go and take a look at everyone's creations!
:) Jill
