Be Strong

  Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This week is a fun one: Embossing (Wet or Dry OR Wet and Dry).

And here is the card I created:

I used heat embossing.  I heat embossed the sentiment with gold embossing powder on the striped panel, and also the "Happy Birthday" on a piece of white scrap card stock.  All of the papers (except the light purple card stock base are all from the same paper pack.  I even stamped the flowers and leaves on patterned paper and added a little bit of shading with my markers.  I love using multiple patterns from the same pack because I know they are going to match (I have a hard time matching colors otherwise).  The patterned "frame" has some beautiful foiled parts that catch the light so nicely.  You can see all the shiny goodness in the photo below.

Thanks for stopping by!  Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this photo.  And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Be Strong", "Happy Birthday", "Pattie's Flower Outline", "Daisy Outline small", "Leaf Outline, small" and "Leaf Outline, large"

Dies:  Spellbinders "A2 Matting Basics 2"

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #403--anything goes with snippets (except for the card base and the striped paper, all of the other elements were cut from scraps.  The leaves used up a nice long, narrow strip!)

Sheepski Designs #50--floral dance

Creatalicious #210--anything goes with the optional twist: for a woman

Paper Funday #29--anything goes with the optional twist: flowers/floral

Dare 2 B Artzy--flowers

Atlantic Hearts Sketches #422--sketch

Simon Says Stamp Monday--frame it

Use Your Stuff #423--tic-tac-toe (I used flowers, butterflies, purple +embossing, stripes, paper piecing, and shiny/sparkly--almost the whole board)