Addicted to Stamps and More! Challenge #496

It's time for the next challenge in our rotation at Addicted to Stamps and More! For the next two weeks, our challenge will be

In case you're wondering what MAKE YOUR MARK means. It means use paint, ink, colored pencils, chalk, pens - something to make a mark on paper. This time, for me, I felt like getting inky.

Here's my card

This was using an idea I saw on Pinterest. Of course, I didn't pin the card, so I don't know who to give credit to. Apologis. I ink blended a white A2 card panel with oval ink blending brushes and distress inks - picked raspberry, mustard seed, peacock feathers, mermaid lagoon, spiced marmalade, wilted violet, randomly placed. I then ran the panel with a Cricut Cuttlebug Anna Griffin Blossom Dance Embossing Folder. To give the smoky look, I used black soot, applied with a foam applicator, primarily over the raised areas. The foam applicator is important because it tends to stay on the top surface of the embossed panel. A brush applicator would have added the black soot in all the "valleys" of the embossed panel, too. For the sentiment, I stamped on a scrap of pink cardstock with Hero Arts' Year Round Sentiments. I cut the pink cardstock into a double fish-tail sentiment strip and glued it in place. To complete my card, I adhered the panel to a white A2 card base with double-sided tape.

We'd love to see your MAKE YOUR MARK creations in our gallery.

Thanks for stopping by

sue

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