White Fence - Creating with Paper

Wishing all my blog readers a very 'Happy New Year 2016'. I hope you have the most wonderful year full of health, happiness, success and may God Bless you all with his choicest blessings. To kick start the year I have made these cards for some wonderful friends that I have met on this crafty journey over the last one year.  I have used the emboss resist technique to create the focal panel. I have used White, Silver and Black embossing powder to create the focal image. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp. The size of the cards is 4 x 5 1/2 inches and the focal panel is 3 x 5 1/2 inches. I have lined the sides with Gold Metallic paper and Silver metallic paper. For the sentiment i have used Vellum and embossed the sentiment using my Ranger Heat Tool.  These two card are embossed using Ranger White Embossing powder and used Tim Holtz distress inks to create the background - Picked Rasberries & Seedless Preserve and Mustard Seed & Spiced Marmala...

Weekend was great, had some time and was highly inspired by my youtube brigade to give a shot to the all popular Shaker cards this season. Also I had seen Kristina Werner's 1 stamp 1 Card Friday Focus video and was highly inspired by it, so decided to create 2 Shaker Cards one with the Simon Says Stamp July 2014 Card Kit and the other with the Simon Says Stamp August 2014 Card Kit. The difference or the USP of these cards is that I have use every element from the Card Kit, including the Shaker elements. I decided to stamp and cut the elements like envelopes from the SSS July 2014 Card Kit and the Ice Cream sticks from the SSS August 2014 Card Kit The SSS July 2014 Kit has this lovely stamp of a small envelope, I stamped that with Ranger Archival Black ink and then coloured the envelopes using Tim Holtz Distress Markers and applied wink-a-stellar glitter to give it some character. I used a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch standard A2 size Card base. I created the back panel with Tim Holt...

Its almost there, yes the day when Simon Says Stamp will reveal its Stamptember ®  collection. From all the sneak peaks that I have seen on Instagram, Blogs, twitter I am super excited for this launch. It has the most amazing stamp sets that have images of fruits, Donuts (I love Donuts), snowflakes, fabulous collections and one stamp set for the Christmas season with outline image with a baby Jesus in hand is to die for. Looks like I am going to be broke this September or should I say broke in Stamptember...

This is my 2nd post for the day, but the first entry for this challenge Tag You're It Inspiration: My Take on the Inspiration: