Still The One

This week's challenge over at OCC is to make a card using the technique emboss resist. I had pulled the Summer by the Sea set out intending to make a Valentine and was debating how to color the image of the couple, wondering if I should paper piece their clothes. So I did some surfing for inspiration and thought the emboss resist technique would solve those problems for me. I also hoped on over to Splitcoast Stampers to check this week's card sketch challenge. I liked the sketch and decided to go for a double challenge. Initially I was going to make a girly romantic sort of Valentine with this stamp, but after shuffling through my substantial hord of paper, I concluded that I just didn't have the right paper (humm...another on-line shopping spree coming up?) when the Western Sky DSP caught my eye and the ideas started percolating. Yes, yes, a guy Valentine! Perfect, knowing how hard it is for me to come up with ideas, stamps and paper to create any type of card for a guy.

I had purchased the Verve Visual Feeling Groovy set about six months ago and it has some great sentiments for this kind of occasion. I really loved last year's SU In Colors, especially these two - Blue Bayou and River Rock and enjoyed having the opportunity to work with them again.

Card Recipe

Stamps: Bronc Busters and Summer by the Sea and Canvas BG stamp from Stampin' Up! and Feeing Groovy from Verve Visual

Paper: River Rock, Blue Bayou, Western Sky, Whisper White

Ink: Versamark, Blue Bayou, River Rock, Soft Sky

Accessories: White EP, Clear EP, Cuttlebug, Concentric Stars die, Nestabilities Curved Rectangles, brad from Hodgepodge Hardware, Tm Holtz Fragment and Trinket Pin, hemp thread and sewing machine

Hope you like my card!