Wishing You Well

Here is another card that will be sent to the soldiers.  Sweet Stamps’ challenge this week was to use a brayered background and I really love all the different ways you can use a brayer.  Wanting to stay with the requested simpler card, I decided to stamp with Versamark Ink on white glossy cardstock, using the newer Blossoms image.  I brayered over this using Rhubarb Stalk Memento Ink, which brought out the image.
 

 

The image in the center is Sweet Stamps’ Wishing Well, also stamped with Rhubarb Stalk, and die cut with a Spellbinders’ Labels 1 die.  I framed this with a Lattice 2 die cut from Cheery Lynn Designs.

This was a great weekend and the temp has really cooled off.  I am off to make a very special card and an exciting announcement (at least for me) so see you again soon.

E. Marie

This card is entered in the following challenges:

Sweet Stamps.com Challenge #85 - Brayered Backgrounds  

A Blog Named Hero Challenge #13 – White Out (All Cardstock/Paper Must Start As White)  

Stampin For The Weekend Challenge #18 – Feeling Floral    

Catch The Bug October Challenge – Anything Goes    

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #123 – Anything Goes (plus a sentiment)

Crafts and Me Challenge #104 – My Sentiments Exactly

Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge PWC226 – Flowers

Totally Gorjuss Challenge 152 – Anything Goes

Brayered Birthday Card

I belong to a local stamp club and we do monthly card swaps.  I thought I would post the card I made for this last month's meeting.  Our theme was "Brayered/Birthday".  I have to admit that I had seen a simular card and wanted to try out their technique (sorry I can't give credit since I do not remember where I saw it and read about the technique).  I started with a simple white card and ran it through an embossing folder.  This was a new one by Fiskar.  I then used my hand rotary tool and cut off about 1/3 using a curvy design.  I brayered each piece a different color and then mounted them together onto a blue card base.  I love how the brayered color brings out the embossed design.  The butterflies are punched out and then also embossed and brayered.  The message is stamped and mounted on white and blue cut out with nestabilities.  Simple and fun!!