Same Stamp, 3 Ways

I've been after this stamp for a few years, and finally managed to get it.  A friend over in the US kindly sent me it.  It's by Stampin Up, but I'm sure it's retired now.

 First I stamped and heat embossed with white embossing powder, the blended a couple of colours of Distress Inks to look like it's coming from behind, colours used were Picked Raspberry and Broken China.  The heat embossing resists the ink and gives a lovely effect.  I finished off with a sentiment from Visible Image.

 I stamped and heat embossed just half of the stamp on an off cut of card, matted onto a piece of silver card and finished of with the sentiment which if from a set by Honeydoo Stamps.

Heat embossed again and the sentiment is from Visible Image.

Christmas Card #3

3 down, still lots to go...... lol.  This is my Christmas card for last week.  My niece and I meet up every Saturday night to chat and craft.  So this year we've set ourselves a challenge to make 1 Christmas card a week.  We're doing well up to now........ well we're only 3 weeks into the challenge..... lol.  The theme for this week was 'A Traditional Christmas Card'.

I love this stamp which is part of a 2 stamp set from Stampin Up.  Not even sure that they still make it as I've had it quite a few years now.  Nice and easy this one, a bit of sparkle, matt and layering, and that's it.  

Getting Inky......

My mojo seems to have up and left me at the moment, so I've been playing with inks for a change hoping it gets me in the mood for card making again.  I made 3 cards yesterday so thought I'd show you them.

I used a stamp from Stamping Up for this one, it's from the Baroque Motifs set (had them for years!) First I used Dusty Concord and Tumbled Glass distress inks and just covered the white linen card stock till I was happy with it.  I've discovered that stamping on linen card isn't the best...... lol.  I then inked up the largest stamp in the set with black Versamark and sprinkled clear embossing powder over the images, and gave it a blast with the heat gun.  I also inked the backing card with Dusty Concord.

I used Worn Lipstick and Shabby Shutters distress inks and the same stamp for this one.  Again using Versamark black and clear embossing powder.  

I used the Rose Stem  stamp from Chocolate Baroque for this one.  I used Black Soot distress ink to stamp with, then just pulled some of the ink into the image with a damp paintbrush.  

A closer look at the image, to show just how lovely this stamp is.  The script is so fine, and clear enough to read.