We got home just in time for me to get a card posted for The Paper Players Challenge: Sparkle.
In November I won the prize of all prizes: the complete release of the new products at Pinkfresh Studios. Since I was in the midst of card making and preparation for Christmas, I barely had time to even look through the collection of stamps, stencils, dies, and foiling plates. (Luckily, Santa brought me a Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil machine, so that’s high on the list of things to do in January.) I did have time to play with one of my favorite stamps in the collection, “Charming Floral Border.” I also used just one of the several layering stencils to add a touch of shadow to the image. I got the card in the mail to my friend, but had no time to get a blog post written.
I embossed the floral border in silver and then added the detail with a medium shade of gray ink with one of the stencils. It’s hard to see the sparkle in the photo above, but here’s a clearer look.
You can also see here where I added a few quick strokes of a dark gray Copic marker to add some detail to some of the stenciled areas.
The sentiment from Simon Says “Sketched Flowers” was also embossed in silver. I trimmed the stamped piece down just enough to show a narrow border from the card base.
We had an easy drive home, thanks to Tracy’s foresight. There was a band of lake effect snow predicted for the area west of Buffalo extending to Batavia (about 40 minutes west of Rochester.) Instead of taking a chance with the weather, we headed south and east on Rte. 86 just after Erie, Pennsylvania and then north on Rte. 390 to Rochester. There were only snow flurries on our route for about 20 minutes, and then we had partly sunny skies a good part of the way. When we watched the news last night, we discovered the Buffalo airport recorded the highest snowfall in one day—17.8 inches!!! Our usual route takes us right by the airport. The change in route took about an hour longer if done in good weather, but most likely saved us time—and certainly saved me a lot of anxiety.
Stunning, Karen! It’s such a delicate and feminine image, which you have shaded perfectly. The silver embossing really shines. I’m glad you made it home safely. Thank goodness for the route change! Thank you for playing in my challenge at The Paper Players this week!
Go glad to hear you are both home safe & tucked up in the knowledge you missed that snow – bonus points for Tracy keeping an eye on weather & routes.
That card is absolutely gorgeous! G O R G E O U S
What Mary-Lou said! Simply gorgeous card, and brilliant negotation of the conditions for a low-stress drive home. Glad you had a great time with the family and are now safely back.
Oh What!! What a fabulous prize. I admit I’m jelly 😉
This is such a beautiful and elegant card.
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Way to go! What a wonderful prize! I think I do remember seeing this but never told you congrats! Such a pretty card! Glad you are home safe and sound!
Congratulations! What a fun pre-Christmas gift to receive the PFS stuff!! Your card looks so elegant in silver and that stamp set was my favorite of the group! What a scout your Tracy is to get you home safely. Our son did the same on Christmas weekend thinking the extra driving time was worth the stress snowy mountain passes cause.
This is beautiful Karen. I have the hot foil glimmer plate and die of this image and I love it. I have done it in gold foil but will to try the silver also. TFS
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