Party Time!!

Here I was getting excited to cross the75k mark and when I checked, it had gone way past 75K and another 250 and counting!!! Whoop -Whoop!!
You guys are the bestest!!!!

So as promised here's my return gifts for being such awesome friends and followers (which BTW have crossed 200!!)

I'm giving away 4 candies...oh yes!! you heard me!! 4. They're not big candies, but just sweet enough!!

Here's the first one
1.) Fiskars 2x6 Stamp - Elegant Vines

 

2) Fiskars 2x6 stamp - Summer wings 

 

3) A5 Papermania Capsule collection, Black and white.

4)A5 Daisy Dandelion Picnic Patch...

So what you've gotta do!!

DO NOT SHARE THIS CANDY ON FB!! Yes! Do not. Feel free to mention in your blogs though....I personally find my timeline annoying with posts of candies so I would not want to push this on Facebook.

If you read my blog, you'll be here and that is more than enough for me.

Drop in your name in the inklinkz and I'll pick up 4 winners anytime in this month!! How's that for a change!!

I will however want the winners to contact me within 2 days or I will pick up a new name. 

I'll see you on the other side of May!! Take care and keep Cool!

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.