Sympathy for a friend

It snowed for Christmas here in the deep south ☃ and so I thought I would show you all an almost all white card I made while looking at a white christmas just like the ones I use to know up north.

The technique is called Double Texture Embossing by Dawn Olchefske www.youtube.com/watch

I like this layout with the swiss dot embossing folder and the oval frame with a pretty stamped image inside. This technique of not embossing all of the paper in order to leave room at the bottom for a stamped sentiment is great and so versatile.

Did you know that in Eastern cultures white is associated with mourning?

Dwell in Possibility

Here is a card I made using my new Anna Griffin 18th Century stamps and my new SU designer frames embossing folder and punch.

 The stamp was colored with copic markers Y15, R83, R85, BV02, BV31.

I  went looking for a challenge to enter this card into; no easy task to find during the holiday season.
But I did find a couple that wanted bling, so out came the rhinestones and now it is good to submit there, an anything goes (love those challenges, so easy to enter) and a texture challenge cause I have some embossing on the card.

Here are the links:   simplylessismoore , allsortschallenge, brownsugarchallenge, stampinfortheweekend

Peacock Alley

Hello everyone,

I wanted to show you a card I made after finding this lovely peacock cuttlebug embossing folder on clearance at hobby lobby.

I  used a couple of techniques on this card. I used the sandpaper technique on DCWV "white core" jewel colored cardstock after embossing the folder. The other technique was to run the sanded embossed card through the xyron (image side down) with the image receiving the adhesive and then once it was sticky applied glitter to the entire image. 

The peacocks needed a little more pop than the sanding and glittering so I used my white galaxy marker to color in the peacocks. The background paper is some very pretty paper I bought at Paper Source.

Lovely Lavender Lady Card

Another date at the Play Date Cafe, this time my inspiration is from an Australian paper designer named Cristina Re, I absolutely love her stuff, so feminine, you should check her out at cristinare.com.
I used vellum paper, the swiss dot embossing folder and ran it through my Big Shot to emboss the vellum then just folded as show.