Have an Ace Birthday

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week so far. 

Today's card was one I was really happy with, until..... The background ink dried completely!!! I used a pale grey Altenew ink from the Rock Collection, to stamp a hand of cards stamp onto grey card, and it looked really good, so I went on and finished my card. 

Then it dried overnight and the background stamping is so feint, you can barely see it, in fact I couldn't get the camera to pick it up very much at all. Oh well I will know better next time lol.

I used an old pack of cards and took the Aces from it to make my focal point, then I silver heat embossed a sentiment from a couple of older Creative Stamping Magazine sets, onto black card, and cut this into small pieces to position over the top.

Thank you for spending some time here today, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Tartan Love

Good morning all, I hope you have had a great weekend. Today's card is one that I have kept putting off showing, because I really don't like how it turned out. But I thought I needed to show that it doesn't always work lol.

I started with an alcohol ink background, using Adirondack and Ranger inks, and a blending tool, I swept the colours across glossy card to make a tartan effect.

Then having watched a few videos where people had successfully heat embossed over the top of an inked background, I thought I would give it a go.

But as you can see, even though I used my anti static pad, and allowed my background to fully dry over a few days, it still didn't go on cleanly.

But oh well, it won't stop me from trying again, but next time, I will probably use a less intricate stamp, and a finer detail embossing powder lol.

Thanks for stopping by, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx