The Flower Challenge #52 - Reminder

There's still time to join us at The Flower Challenge for our embossing challenge.  My earlier card had an embossed background.  This card features embossed flowers.

In fact the Christmas Rose from WPlus9 is gold embossed on vellum.  I saw this card from Jaycee and love it so much I had to make my own version.  After embossing I colored on the back with my new alcohol markers from Altenew.  The word die from SSS was cut from gold foil cs. The photography isn't very good but you can still see some of the shine.  

The rest of the Design Team has cards to inspire you.  Will we see your embossed card in the gallery?  Just remember that flowers must be the focal point.

Just Us Girls #466 - Trend Week

Have you ever tried using bleach on a card?  Now's your chance since that is the trend that Ina has chosen for us at Just Us Girls.

You never know what kind of results you will get by adding bleach to paper and believe me I experimented a lot.  Some paper didn't change at all and some worked beautifully.  I have not one but two cards to show you.  This is the second one I did when I found out what bleach did to PTI's Ocean Tide.

Isn't this fabulous?  I gold heat embossed the flower from Catherine Pooler and then applied straight bleach with a paint brush and let it dry on its own. 

My second card was my first until I goofed and accidentally moved the stamp and got a double image.  I salvaged it by cutting it apart and fortunately I had another scrap of the paper - the very last of my PTI Winter Wisteria.

I love the pink color I got by applying the bleach after heat embossing the SSS Artful flowers in white. 

I sure hope you'll give this a try.  Check out the cards from our guest Claire and the rest of the team if you need inspiration.  If you are the challenge winner you could be our guest in January.

Less Is More #368

Is is any wonder that my teamie from The Flower Challenge has flowers as her inspiration as we CASE her design at Less Is More?  Here is Aileen's card.

She used Copic markers on her flowers but I decided to just stamp mine.

The layered flowers are from Altenew stamped in their inks.  Before placing them on the card I embossed a die to make a frame and then cut the SSS word die several times with the top layer being a shimmer paper.

Blue is such an appropriate color for my post today with all the news that has saddened my heart.  Ken's brother-in-law passed away yesterday after falling off a roof.  The skull fracture and internal bleeding were so severe that there was little chance of recovery. Then this morning I got the prayer chain from church and a dear elderly lady friend fell yesterday and broke her hip, wrist and fractured her pelvis.  Just one of these injuries is a lot for a 90+ year old and having gone through it with my mother I know the toll it takes.  It goes without saying that I will be offering up a lot of prayers today.