The Flower Challenge: Embossing & Altenew's Card Challenge

Hi my crafty friends!

I'm playing along with the Flower Challenge, a blog I've fallen in love with, where

the call is to use embossing: heat or dry.

Let's hear it for florals!

I used a stamp and die set from Altenew called Book Club.

Before I embossed my Aqua Mist yardstick, I stamped the leaves from

 Wallpaper Art (Altenew)and inked the leaves loosely.

sentiment PTI Birthday Classics: June.

The flowers were colored on Olive Twist cardstock with Faber-Castel Polychromos pencils 

after embossing in white.

My birthday stash is growing steadily. Don't you just love having birthday cards

ready to give?

The flower Challenge has a prize from Altenew this week, and runs through

the 25th. Plenty of time to play along...

Altenew's photo challenge is pictured here:

Cool photo with so many possibilities!

Inspiration Challenge

Have a blessed week!

Happy Birthday

Melissa Phillips is up at PTI's MIM this week.

She is challenging us to use our colored pencils on kraft,

or some other darker card stock.

Melissa always wows. She's a master with every technique,

and her cards this week were filled with subtle layers and stamping textures.

So, of course, I had to try stamping layers with my colored 

cupcake from Bakers Dozen.

Once I embossed the frame and cupcake in white, I masked it, and stamped 

BB: Gingham all around it.

It was so much fun coloring it in! Lots of blending, all one layer.

Background card stock stamped with BB: Venice and Fine Linen ink.

I've done this technique before, and love the richness

 it gives the images, once colored.

I used Prisma Watercolor Pencils

Play along on Nichole's blog, here:

Make It Monday #276: Kraft & Colored Pencils