I needed a card because one of my friends has been promoted. So out came the Bravo stamp set and I decided to include a sponged rectangle as I’ve done a couple of times lately.

I used the square framelits to cut out the rectangle from a piece of card, moving the framelit to elongate the shape. I then used finger daubers to add the ink –  pacific point, melon mambo and pumpkin pie – only very vanilla card stock. I let it dry a little and then, after using the embossing buddy, stamped the image and sprinkled on the gold powder. I used a fine paintbrush to flick away some extra specks of gold and heated the image. After heating, I found that there were a lot of extra specks of gold – presumably the inked rectangle wasn’t completely dry. My sister called at that time and I told her that I was about to redo the card and she suggested emboss resist rather than waiting for longer to allow it to dry. Brilliant idea! So I started with the embossing and then moved onto the sponging – the advantage of this approach (apart from not getting extra gold specks) is that I could more easily place where I wanted the rectangle.

The very vanilla piece is mounted on a melon mambo card base and I made a liner in melon mambo using the retired backgrounds DSP (I realized yesterday that I don’t have the new one in brights yet) and the envelope liners framelits. I hope she likes the card.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

I was browsing some of my favourite challenge sites looking for inspiration when I found a completely new kind of challenge on the TGIF Challenge site – a throwdown challenge. Apparently it runs all month so I’m just getting in before the July challenge finishes. The idea is that there is a list of basic items that you can use and then a monthly basket from which you have to use a certain number of items. Sounds like fun.  So here’s my entry:

Here’s the challenge banner

and the basket of items:

As you can probably see, I used the black cardstock, the balloon thinlits, the Bravo stamp set and the Delightful Dijon ink. I cut out the balloons out of very vanilla and then sponged them with the delightful dijon. Actually to start with, I stamped them with delightful dijon but you can’t see that because that’s the side that’s now stuck onto the card! So after sponging, I stamped the sentiments from the Bravo set in black which I liked much better. I was going to use the white baker’s twine which I pulled through the delightful dijon stamp pad but decided that it was too much for the card. I stuck the two balloons on to the very vanilla piece and then popped up the third with stampin’ dimensionals. I matted this with a thin piece of basic black and then mounted that on a very vanilla card base.

It’s not part of the  challenge – there aren’t any envelopes in the pantry – but here’s the card with a coordinating envelope.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Gary is another of the walk clubbies who has achieved the year long challenge that I started last January. You can read about the clubbies and more details about the challenge here. As I mentioned in Karen’s post, I decided to send a card to each of the members who had succeeded in the challenge. Here’s what I made for Gary

I started with some island indigo card and stamped the sentiment from the Stampin’ Up! Bravo set in versamark before sprinkling over the silver embossing powder. I then used my confetti stars punch to create a mass of little stars in the silver glimmer paper. I stuck the largest ones on with glue dots and used the two way glue pen to fix on the smaller ones. I finished off the card by lining the envelope in the backgrounds DSP in island indigo (from the regals collection).