Your friendship is Perfect

I've been having a bit of a spend-up since Christmas and one of my buys was Altenew's Perfect Gift set of stamps, dies/stencils/embossing folder combo.  It's a fabulous combo and I used all of it for my card. 

 I started by embossing the folder onto a square card base.  I used a gold pen to colour the frame.  Unfortunately my pen packed a sad... so it's a bit splotchy. Stamped the sentiment in Onyx Black ink.   Part of the embossing folder is the floral swag - however I chose to stamp and stencil it and then die cut it.  I trimmed my panel down and matted it with a thin black layer and onto a wider dark pink layer before adding to a 5 7/8" card base.  Added the swag with some 3D tape.  Added some gold gems to finish.  

As this is the first time using this combo set, I'm adding to Darnell's NBUS challenge.  

Happy Anniversary

Friday next week my son and daughter-in-law will celebrate their first wedding anniversary.  So I made a card for them.   My card was inspired by one of the Day 4 techniques at Online Card Class - Spring Card Camp 2022.  Heather Hoffman has a embossed resist technique with a twist... using stencils to colour the card.   Such a cool look.

Here's my take on this technique.

I started by clear heating embossing an older Hero Arts background stamp.  I then used my new Altenew layering stencil - Flower Bunch layering stencil.  I used the colours as per the stencil info.   I cut with a Gina K Master Layout 2 die.  Decided the background looked a bit stark - so masked around the edge of the die cut and added some soft blue ink.  Really made the embossed butterfly stand out.   Added a white embossed on black sentiment from Sentiment Stripes #1   Layered the panel onto some black card then onto the white base.   Another fabulous technique from the classes.  

I'm entering this into NBUS challenge for May as this was the first time using this stencil.  

I'm now a few days behind in my homework.   Having to work last week put a stop on my crafting time - bummer!   And Thurs afternoon and Friday - my cough got worse.  Ended up heading to the respiratory doctor at my local GP.  Ended up with steroids and an inhaler and have to go back on Monday for a further check up. Today I only managed about half and hour in the craft room...