Sunday, November 3, 2013

Black & White Birthday

This morning I was checking out some challenge blogs I've never participated with
before and decided to try my hand at a few.  I actually was able to create a card that
I think fulfills the requirements for 4 challenges.


Here is the card I made.



So, I first saw the challenge at CASology where the cue word is black and the
challenge at Cas-ual Fridays where the theme is embossing, either dry or heat.
Now I've never considered any of my designs to be clean and simple, but I'm
finding that the more I do along those lines the more I like it.  Hope this card qualifies
as clean and simple for those 2 challenges.  I saw the sketch at Seize the Sketch...



and decided that would be the one to use.  I also thought, that since this is a birthday
card that I would enter it in the Seize the Birthday challenge as well, as anything goes
for that one.

I used Black Magic cardstock from Core'dinations and dry embossed it with the
Sizzix Corners and Lattice embossing folders set.  Then I lightly sanding the embossing 
to bring out a little of the white core.  I stamped my sentiment, which is from the
Inkadinkado Expressions and Frames set, and heat embossed it with white embossing
powder.  I finished with 2 silk flowers from the Paper Studio that I put together with
a black brad.  So, hopefully I covered all the bases for these 4  challenges.
 Thanks for taking a look!

6 comments:

  1. Judy, this black card is just lovely! I like the dry embossing and sanding in the corners, very nice effect. Thanks for playing along at CASology!

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  2. Wow!!! Super elegant filigree and lovely bloom!! Such a great card for all of the challenges!! Thanks for joining us at CASology!! We have another CUE this week of BROWN! I hope you can play again too!!

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  3. Lovely card and its great for all the challenges. Thank you for visiting me.

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  4. Great card, love the embossing and the black and white.
    Thanks for joining us at Seize the Sketch!

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  5. this is so pretty! great card! thanks for joining us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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  6. Ooooo...so striking! I always love black and white cards. Yours has such a great mixture of elements. The pop of silver is fantastic! Thanks for joining us at CAS-ual Fridays!

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