Slimline bold birthday card

Hello. I made this slimline card a while ago, then added to it to take part in the Sunday Stamps weekly challenge today.

I used antique linen and speckled egg distress oxide inks to create the background. I also snuck in some grid stamping too. The birthday sentiment is done using The Ton's birthday dies. I used them as a stencil with Versamark ink and speckled egg embossing glaze. 

Outside slimline loopy rectangle die is from Gina Marie Designs. 

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grunge metal birthday

Hello. Played around with distress glaze and crayons after TH's live today. Here is what I ended up with.

I used Sizzix foil adhesive sheet and ran it through the 3D texture fade foundry embossing folder. Next I covered it with collage medium, sprinkled on distress glaze in cracked pistachio, antique linen and broken china. Heat embossed it very carefully (it got really hot) and then ran black soot distress crayon all over it. Did the smudge with the brush, came back with my fingers and baby wipe, to build it up and take it off.....LOL. I love how it came out. I also really like how there are bare spots where the embossing powder did stick to. 

Birthday sentiment is from Poppy stamps and I heat embossed it in silver onto the metallic teal cardstock from TH.  

I had a lot of fun playing around with this. I also did a strip of sheet metal tape doing the same technique and it equally came out cool looking. Just be very careful when heat embossing! 

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Rustic Christmas

Hello. Playing in the CAS(e) this sketch #399 today. 

Pine cone/fir stamp is a big background stamp from Simon Says Stamp, that I colored with Copic's. I used a fishtail banner to cut part of it and saved the rest of it for later. I've had the plaid designer paper in my Christmas stash forever, so I thought it would be fun to use it on this and call it "rustic" since I used a lot of rustic products. 

The sentiment is from Hero Arts and I used the new rustic wilderness distress oxide ink and glaze on the vellum. I stuck tiny gold pearls in the corners to hide the glue.  Rustic white cardstock from PTI is used for the base. See the rustic theme, here? LOL

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