Allison's Stampin When I Can Challenge

Hey Everyone! I made this card for Allison's "Stampin When I Can" Challenge/Blog Candy. The challenge is to create a b & w Christmas card. I worked on the card the other day but only now posting it because I was busy yesterday and didn't have the time to take the pictures of the cards. I love the simplicity of my card so I made more of them in different colors.

For the first card at the top. . .I stamped the image from the SU "True Friend" stamp set 4 times using Versamark ink, heat embossed the images with black embossing powder, cut out the images and layered each image on top of one another using foam tape to give the flower a 3D effect.

I then matted the image on 3 layers of black and white cardstock. I punched the corner with the SU Ticket Corner Punch and added the brads. I did the same thing with the sentiment and added clear Stickles to give the card a little bit of glittery look to it. The embossed background is a embossed card stock by DCWV.

Believe it or not, although the card looks very simple, it took a lot of steps to make this simple card. First the heat embossing, second, the cutting of the image, and third, outlining the edge of the mats with Gold Leaf Pen which took time to dry so I had to stop with each layer and wait before I could mount them together.

Leaf pens are FABULOUS for outling edges of cards because the end results are spectacular. It gives your edge the appearance of foil lining. The pens are a little pricey but well worth it if you want to make a professional foil lining appearance to your card.

Here is a silver one. The same process was used to create this card but with this one, I used a Silver Leaf Pen. Leaf pens come in three colors that I know of. . .gold, silver, and copper.

Not to change the subject but are you a multi-tasker? I'm terrible at multi-tasking but I do it all the time. I blog, email, blurf, comment, stamp, watch TV, prepare packages, create my sketches, etc. all at the same time. I'll hop to one task to another and back and forth. I'll even hop to doing chores like throwing clothes into the laundry or vacuum then hop back to stamping. Unfortunately, everything are always half way done. Ha!

What really throws me off is when my kids or husband ask me to get dressed because we need to go somewhere or one of my kids call from school asking me to drop off something or some sort of request while I'm in the middle of my task hopping. That really drives me NUTS!! For all you SAHM you know what I'm talking about. . .this is life but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. I've worked all my adult life even while in high school until two years ago and I felt more fulfillment while being a SAHM than I've ever had from working.

Are you that way too? Are you a task hopper? Just curious.

Anyway, here is the simple sketch to the card.