Kraft and Colors

Thinking of a title name for the post is as challenging as making a card!! And boy oh boy!! Looks like my give-away will come sooner than I anticipated...My blog is already at 74,900 views...just a hundred more and I have a party!!! So what do you want in the give-away? I've given away vouchers, stamps, inks in my previous give-aways....so do drop in your options!!

So coming on to the card..I had brought a pack of Kraft card stock a long time back and never got around to using it....and then I saw Julie's card on Pinterest...and I had to do it. Don't know if flowers qualify on a card for a guy, but this did go to a guy. And I'm hoping he didn't think it was too girly.

 

I white heat embossed my stamps, colored with my Bic markers and a little bit of glitter and the card was done. But there were a lot of failed experiments to get this one card...

 Firstly, not having my heat gun made things a bit weird. I was heat embossing on my dosa pan. Works, just gotta be careful!  

TIP- Try out the colors you plan to use on a scrap kraft CS. Colors don't show up  very well on Kraft CS...the light colors just fade in...so if you're doing watercolors, play around on a scrap first. 

TIP 2 - Bic markers will stain on the white embossing. So be very careful, or use a Copic colorless blender pen to remove colors. I could remove the red with the blender pen, but blue didn't come off easily. 

The glitter pen I used doesn't show well in the pic, but IRL its very subtle shine. !!  I also went around the edge of the flowers with a light grey marker..just to show a bit of shadow...

This is the inside of the card. 
 Here I white heat embossed the border, and added vintage photo for a contrast. And then the words were glued down on the inside

Supplies
Stamps - Papertrey ink- Friends til the end, Signature greetings
Inks - Versamark, Vintage photo distress ink.
Paper - Kraft from Creativita Store,  Fabriano white CS.
Other - Zing opaque white embossing powder, Sakura stardust pens, Bic Markers, Copic Colorless Blender pen, Pro-marker light grey pen.

No stamping!

How hard is it when I have to keep away from my stamps and inks! Smita had challenged us to make a card using ribbons and no stamps!! She is the guest blogger on Yvonne's blog this week. That girl knows how to challenge me.
And there is no DP either! This also is for Annabelle Stamps challenge to use no DP.

Here's my card...wanted to use Christmas colors..so used satin polka dotted and grosgrain ribbon...and this card is made on the lines of a card made by Kristina Werner....

The butterfly is cut from a template. Finally I found something resembling a kraft CS in local stationery store. Love it. All the ribbons are scraps..and the pearls are from Itsy bitsy.
Sentiment handwritten..

tip-Always wait for the white gel pen to dry before you do anything else...see those splotches??  :) (right above the L in the hello)

There you Smita, no stamping!! how did I do??
This is my second post of the day!! Do scroll down to see what came in my mail.