Friday, April 18, 2014

FRIENDS

 
Back story:
As a "supportive" wife, I sometimes attend car shows with my husband.  This usually involves his car, some lawn chairs, and a book for me.  He and I walk around once together, look at all the cars.  Then I go back to our car, and read - while he goes around again, and again, and again - looking over all the cars in some detail, and talking to all the other motor heads.  
 
One summer evening we went to a car show by the beach.  One of my hub's friends showed up with his wife.  My book for that night was actually a Stampin Up catalog.  I had not yet met Karin.  But she was interested in learning about my stamping and scrapbooking hobby. 
 
Long story, short -- we started taking Scrapbook classes together; and have become good paper-crafting friends.  She makes the most amazing scrapbook pages -- all lace and layers. 
 
Karin occasionally buys double of things (so do I) and cleans out her craft room.  I sometimes get the benefit of this.  Yesterday, her hubby dropped of a bag of goodies -- which I used some of to create this card for her.  The paper and stamps were all from Karin. 
 
Card Information:
I used the Hero Arts large lotus background stamp, stamped with Versamark and clear embossed on the text paper.  Then I sponged distress inks over the clear embossing.  I cut this panel, and layered a piece of gray dot paper underneath. Then layered this onto the green paper.  I can't tell you any of the paper companies, as they were loose papers.  The circle and FRIENDS stamps are by Technique Tuesday.  I stamped the circle on acetate with Stazon and cut that out.  "Friends" was white embossed and layered onto the clear acetate.  Then added this with pop dots. 

 
I used the sketch from CASE this Sketch and the  flower burst from Runway Challenge
 
The colors are from Color Throwdown
 
And at A Blog Named Hero the challenge is to use layers or dimension on your card. 


Thanks so much for looking and taking the time to comment.  I learn so much from your comments -- about crafting, blogging, and about you!!  Thanks to Darnell's comment, I learned how to fix my contact information.  Thanks, Darnell! 
 

9 comments:

  1. Wonderful card!! Love the emboss resist and acetate background for that sentiment!! Thxs for playing at CTD!!

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  2. What a great combination of textures and techniques! Thanks for playing along at A Blog Named Hero!

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  3. Wow, such a cute card Carol! Amazing results with the versamark resist technique too! Thanks for joining us on the Runway ;-)

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  4. So pretty! Love the vibrant colors on your emboss resist panel. Thanks for joining us for this week's Color Throwdown!

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  5. Beautiful card Carol. Love the heat embossing and the sponging... the look is fabulous. The colors look great. Thank you for playing along with us at The Color Throwdown.

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  6. Oh, this is gorgeous! I love your fabulous take on the sketch & inspiration photo!

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  7. Eek! Emboss resist with patterned paper. LOVE LOVE LOVE. Thanks for joining us at A Blog Named Hero!

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  8. You're very welcome, Carol! I love how you used that intriguing sketch to make a super card for Karin using the supplies she passed on to you! She will treasure it! Great job combining the challenges and good luck with them! Hugs, Darnell

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  9. Very fun color combination and design Carol.

    Hugs Diane

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