CAS-ual Fridays BLING Challenge / The Craft's Meow EMBOSSING Challenge

Hello all...
Here is a card that I created for two different challenges.  The first on is CAS-ual Fridays.  This is a great blog with an even greater DT.  They inspire and give great tips and encourage you to be creative.  They are also a weekly challenge blog that is dedicated to to CAS design - CLEAN and SIMPLE.  So, if CAS is your style, this is the blog for you.  Their challenge was to BRING the BLING - and bling could be rhinestones, pearls, glitter, stickles, etc....and this is the card that I created for this challenge.

The second challenge that I am participating in is The Craft's Meow.  This is another great blog.  Their challenge was to use embossing on your project - heat or dry and this is what I came up with.  I dry embossed the green label using my Cuttlebug and Swiss Dots embossing folder and I heat embossed the butterfly and the word sentiment using VersaMark ink and white opaque powder.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!
Kimba :)

No Stress when Distressing...

Hey everybody!

Happy Monday! I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend. I know for me, it just flew by. The weekends are always so packed with stuff, that when you finally stop and take a breath, it's already Monday.

I was able to get some stamping done and boy did I have fun. I got to play with some products that I had not used in a long while - Alcohol Inks. I have them on my desk, in a storage drawer, and when I went into the drawer, looking for something else, I said to myself, "Kimba, you HAVE TO make a card using these inks" and that's is how today's card was created. It's the 3rd layer of the card. The finished product came out so nicely, that I plan on creating alot more using is product.

Below, are instructions on how I made the card and I hope that this will inspire you to pull out your alcohol inks and use them to create something awesome....or, better yet, give you a good excuse to go shopping and pick up some inks (wink...wink - I have to enable all of you...it's only fair) from your local craft store.

I hope you like the card, and thanks for stopping by!

Kimba :)

HOW-TO Instructions

Step 1: Base measures 4.50 x 5.75 (BLUE)

Step 2: 2nd Layer measures 4.25 x 5.50 (WHITE)

Step 3: 3rd Layer measures 4 x 5.25 (ALCOHOL INK) - Use GLOSSY CARDSTOCK, and your blender tool, put alcohol inks Lettuce, Latte, and Sail Boat Blue. Adhere to card

Step 4: Stamp Flower Medley onto white cardstock. Ink up stamp using Distress Ink Peeled paint and Broken China, turn woodstamp over and spray the image with water. Stamp image onto cardstock. Distress edges and add pearls to center of flowers.

Step 5: Stamp word image and tie ribbon in a bow

PS - Here's a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOEu9RTI6Ww&feature=related.

to a video by Jennifer McGuire. She will show you how to create the alcohol background

CAARDVARKS Challenge! - Wedding Card Publication #4

Here's my 4th Wedding Card.
Thanks for stopping by!

Kimba :)

PS - I lost my camera, so I am scanning all of my cards. I hope that youare able to see them clearly. The flower (focal point of card) I adhered using foam dots. The black background was also embossing using the Swiss Dots folder.