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Saturday 8 June 2013

A Gem of a Challenge - Emboss It

Hi Everyone
Yippee, it's Saturday and two whole days without work.  I do love weekends.

Today sees the start of a new challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge.  Our theme for this week (chosen by me) is:
Emboss It
Just use embossing somewhere on your project.  This could be dry embossing or heat embossing, whatever you want.

Our prize for the winner is....
2 individual digi images
(no sets, personalised watermarks, sentiment sets)
of the winners choice from Pink Gem Designs.


I used the image Andy with Guitar for my project.  I used the pre-coloured image which I find so useful for quick cards.  For the background I used a stencil of the guitar and music notes.  I used a resist technique using heat embossing and distress inks.  The background was then matted onto some black card an patterned paper from my stash.  I did lightly ink the edges of the patterned paper.   

Thanks for popping by and looking forward to seeing all your creations.  For more inspiration from my fab teamies just pop over to AGOAC.

I would like to enter the following challenges:
Scrapbooking Queen - Anything goes
Paper Crafting Journey - Masculine
Lisa B - Masculine
OSAAT - Anything goes
Robyns Fetish - Use a digi
Digi Darlas - Make it masculine
Love to Create - Fathers Day/Special guy
Papertake - Anything goes
Simon Says - Masculine/Fathers Day
Crafty Creations - One for the boys
Crafts 4 Eternity - For the boys
Simply Create Too - Father day/for a male
Aud Sentiments - Anything goes

21 comments:

karen said...

Morning Mags, well your card ROCKS, fabulous!! have a great weekend, hugs, Karenx

Craftin Suzie (Susan Wykes) said...

Hiya Mags a fab card for a young lad, love the stencil with the guitar on! Susan x

Debs said...

Totally fab card Mags - love it!
Have a wonderful weekend.
Debs xx

Kirsten said...

Hi Mags, such a cool card! Love the background, I haven't seen that stencil, like it a lot. Thanks for joining the Lisa B Designs challenge & good luck.

downrightcrafty said...

this is ace love the colour and the technique a great card
Hugs Kate xx

Mimi said...

Rocking card Mags, love the stencil background paper :) Good luck in this weeks OSAAT challenge and hope to see you back again soon. Hugs Jane OSAAT DT

rachel said...

Great embossing mags and a fabby card xc

Unknown said...

Great card :) Love the stencil background and it works really well with the cutour image :)

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Doreen said...

This is just beautiful,love the image.xxx

Sonia said...

Hi my dearest friend,happy Saturday^_^
What a gorgeous card,beautiful image^_^
Big hug,
Sonia

Sue said...

This is fabulous Mags. I love that image and the background looks wonderful
Sue xx

Pop's Cards said...

This is simply gorgeous sweetie, hugs Pops x x x

Wendy said...

Fabulous card Mag, love the cute image and the background looks fab.
Wendy xx

Sandra H said...

What a beautiful card and such an adorable image and coloured so perfectly lovely layout too xx

nwilliams6 said...

Great coloring Mags - super card with great embossing and a great feel. Well done. Hugz!

Love crafts forever said...

Cute card. Thank you so much for playing with us at One Stitch At A Time. Hope to see you next week.
Hugs Nataliya

Pia S said...

You've made such a fabulous background for this guitar playing boy! And I love the fact that you've used pink tones - you made me realize that pink can actually be a great color for masculine cards as well!

cheiron said...

Great card and I LOVE the background. Thanks for playing along with us in the Masculine/Father's Day challenge over at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog this week!

michele said...

Fantastic card! Thanks for joining us at Crafts 4 Eternity this week hugs x

Unknown said...

Awww such a very beautiful card! I really love seeing those masculine cards entered in that Simon Says Stamp Challenge. They are all beautiful - which includes this one - and makes me thankful that I don't have to pick as a judge coz it will really give headache to me. LOL. Goodluck!

Harry xxxx
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Mel @ Princess Melus Crafts said...

Cute image and great colours!

Thank you for sharing this with us at Aud Sentiments!

Mel xx