Frosted Birthday Greeting

Greetings everyone!
This Birthday card is sporting a frosted embossed tile.  To create the frosted appearance I took an acrylic tile, sanded it with my sanding block until the whole surface was scratched and you couldn't see through it.  I then stamped an image with versa mark, embossed with clear embossing powder, and then hit the heat gun to it. 

I really like how the frosted tile turned out.  I think I just might have to do some more playing around with this technique!  Maybe something feminine with flowers?

This card was created using the following Stampin' Up! supplies:

• Stamp Set/s:
• The Open Sea
• Little Friends
• Punches:
• Circle Punches
• Big Shot:
• Stripes Embossing Folder
• Framelits - Labels Collection
• Sizzlits - Lots of Tags Label 1
• Misc:
• Regals Brad
• Linen Thread
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Clear acrylic tile
• Colors Used:
• ink:  Soft Suede & Not Quite Navy
• Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Grey, Riding Hood Red

Thanks for taking the time to stop by!

Blessings and Inky Hugs;
~Shawnie B.

Nautical Birthday - Masculine - Sketch Challenge

Here is another sketch challenge from Sunny Challenges & Creations.

I'm keeping up with my challenge of creating Masculine cards to replenish my stock.  Here is the sketch...

And here is my interpretation of the sketch:

I did something a bit different around the sentiment.  Instead of rolling out a framelits shape and stamp the sentiment on that, I took a Framelits shape, adhered temporary snail to the back, positioned it where I wanted it on Very Vanilla cardstock and with my dauber shaded Crumb Cake all over and then Soft Suede just around the edges.  I then stamped images from The Open Sea stamp set all over.  Once I figured I had done enough, I removed the Framelits shape, which left the shape, but all clean of any ink, but you can still see the impression.  I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment and called it good.  I'm not sure what the technique is called, I guess it would be a reverse mask? 

This card was created with the following Stampin' Up! Supplies:  

• Stamps:
• The Open Sea
• Elementary Elegance
• Punches:
• Circle Punch (for Build a Brad cntr)
• Big Shot:
• Framelits Labels Collection Die
• Misc:
• Build-a-Brad
• Dimensionals
• Hemp Twine
• Colors:
• Very Vanilla
• Soft Suede ink
• Not Quite Navy
• Riding Hood Red
• Crumb Cake

 Thank you for stopping by!

Blessings & Inky Hugs;

~Shawnie B.

Birthday Sails

Greetings Stampers!

I hope your weekend went well!  It's too bad it had to draw to a close, but all good things must end, right?!

To get an aged / vintage feel, I took the top stamped layer, wadded it up in a ball several times, straightened it out flat with a bone folder, and lightly ran my Crumb Cake ink pad across so only the raised part of the paper would pick up the ink.  (this can be easy to over-do so be careful when doing this).  

The anchors on the base layer was stamped with Craft Whisper White.  If you don't have Whisper White to stand out from the dark background, you can always emboss with white embossing powder.

This card was made with the following Supplies:

• Stamp Set/s-
• The Open Sea
• Messages for Mom
• Punch/s-
• Scallop Trim Border Punch
• Spiral Notebook Punch
• Misc-
• Crop-A-Dial
• Large Eyelets
• Dauber
• Dimensionals
• Hemp Twine

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Blessings & Inky Hugs!
~Shawnie B.