Good morning! Welcome to Joy's Life Design Team Thursday! Today the team is celebrating the 4th of July. The internationals, though, were given a bit more freedom: we could create a non 4th card, but taking inspiration from the Americana colors, red, white and blue. So I scanned my stamps and found that Wild Life Puns (find it here) had a fantastic sentiment for the ocassion.
I played with the concept of America as your "Home"... or gnome, in this case ;) The first thing I did was heat embossing the sentiment with blue Zing embossing powder. Then I cut the gnome cap from red cardstock and heat embossed some white stars on it. After that, I placed in where I wanted it on the card and traced the frame with a pencil. This is important, pencil first!! And finally, once I was happy with the frame, I traced over the pencil lines with a fine point red marker.
You can find what the rest of the DT did here, go visit them! And thanks for visiting me too :D
Supplies: Cardstock: Canson; Stamps: Joy's Life Wild Life Puns; Ink: Versamark; Embossing powder: American Crafts; Other: Red gel pen.
LOL! So creative!
Posted by: Brandi Hall | 06/23/2011 at 02:24 PM
and how sweet it is! The embossing is really effective here... especially with that darling, clever sentiment. :o)
Thanks for the sweet comment on my Fatty post!
Posted by: xiumaiyuki | 06/27/2011 at 11:04 PM