BasicGrey Challenges 4 - Embossing

Hi everyone, hope you're off to a good start with the weekend, we have a bit of sun here so I'm happy! A card today for BasicGrey Challenges where this time it's the lucky draw challenge and the theme picked is embossing which can be dry or heat embossing or both and the project must contain at least one BG product. I've chosen dry embossing for my card and I've embossed the BG Boxer background paper with a CB Argyle folder, I also embossed a panel of the Kraft card. The image is a Gorjuss Girl from Sugar Nellie water coloured with distress inks and I've added some stickles here and there and sponged the edges of the image with peeled paint distress ink. The BG paper is edged distressed with scissors and I've added some doodling with a white gel pen. It's all finished off with a pretty flower that I got from the Craft Barn, gems, punched leaves and a rust coloured satin bow. I hope you can join us this time and there's some wonderful inspiration from my DT friends to start it off. Enjoy your Saturday, Chris x

BasicGrey Challenge 34

Hi everyone, Saturday again already and time for the BasicGrey Challenge. This week there's a wonderful sketch to follow by our lovely Anthea which can be flipped, stretched etc., as long as the sketch is still visible and at least one BasicGrey product must be used. Fantastic inspiration on the blog, the girls have done wonders with this sketch, all so different and inspiring, we all loved it and I enjoyed making a long card for a change. Hope you can join us this week.

I finally got to use this lovely SN stamp that I've had for a while and I've coloured her with distress inks and sponged and painted the background then added some Stickles. The patterned background paper I've made by stamping BasicGrey Pom Bitsy stamps in various colours of distress inks all over the white paper and then sponging with Antique Linen over the top, unfortunately not too much of it is showing due to the humungous ribbon and bow! The other layers are BG Wisteria and some vellum. See you tomorrow with CC card and enjoy your Saturday. Chris x

Sugar Nellie Chef Hamish

A card for CCT Challenge which is 'In the house'. I chose this cute Chef Hamish image which I received in a swap. I couldn't quite get the colouring right as the paper was reacting in a very strange way with the inks for some reason and I ended up doing more and more to try and cover it up! The image is cut out with the large plain circle nestability and coloured with Ranger distress inks. I inked and doodled all around the embossed edge with a Sakura silver pen. I stamped the sentiment and the little flowers for wallpaper. The card blank is cut using the large scalloped circle nestability (I saw this style of card on someone's blog but can't remember where, but thought I'd try and work out how to do it, thank you whoever you are) and the image was layered on top and finsihed with silver metallic ribbon. TFL.
Back soon,
Chris