Wednesday, February 16, 2011

OWH Mid-Week Throwdown

The midweek throwdown challenge over at the OWH Stars and Stamps blog this week is to create a masculine card. I used scraps of grey and black, and added a piece of DP from the Making Memories Wedding stack. I embossed the black panel with a Tim Holtz texture fades embossing folder (brick wall) and added black brads to the corners of the main image. The image is by Stampscapes, and was stamped with Versamark and embossed with Tim Holtz gunmetal distress embossing powder (ep). After embossing, I realized the distress ep had a few flecks of glitter in it, so I covered the entire image with the Versamark pad and added clear detail embossing powder to completely encase the loose glitter. It won't fleck off now, that's for sure! The sentiment is from the SU! set wonderful favorites and it was stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink.
That's another card for my OWH box that I hope to mail out within the next week. I hope you're enjoying your middle-of-the-week so far. Thanks for stopping in and I'll be back again soon!

Carol

14 comments:

Jan Hunnicutt said...

Beautiful card Carol, I noticed the shine to the white paper and wondered about it. I'm glad you told us, it looks great! :)

Wendy said...

Oh Carol, I love this! That cabin image and papers are awesome!

StampTramps said...

I love that stamp and I like how it looks covered with clear embossing powder too! Really nice card, and perfect for the challenge!

Tammy said...

Gorgeous card Carol! I love the colors and that shine is beautiful!!

Paula S. said...

Wonderful solution with the Versamark and the glitter. The image and papers are great together.

JD/ Jill said...

Very nicely done! Great masculine card...

Sherry Hickey said...

Very beautiful card!

Benzi said...

Just wonderful for a masculine card, Carol. You really got a super shine on your image and it looks great. So, the glitter is going anywhere, huh? LOL

Unknown said...

What a gorgeous card!

Mary Anne / MA54K said...

Fantastic! Super masculine card! I am so happy that I will finally meet you on March 5th!

Donna Hanley said...

Carol, I love your card. the stamp is very nice and just everything that you put together looks great. I never thought of covering an entire image with clear EP to hold on glitter. thanks for a great idea.

NanaConnie said...

Perfect masculine card. Love the black, gray and white you chose. The image is gentle yet strong, and the brads are the perfect finishing touch!

Anke said...

Beautiful masculine card ...

Joanne (jojot) said...

what a classy masculine card...love the sketch too