Saturday, April 12, 2008

Julee's Mojo Monday Sketch Contest



I decided to do a card for Julee's Mojo Monday Sketch Contest this week! And am I ever glad I did. I love how this card turned out. Let me rephrase that so I don't sound like such an ego-maniac, ok???????

I think what makes me love the card is the color! I don't do monotone cards very often, and I don't do lilac cards all that much! But yowza, I think I'm going to do monotone and lilac more often!!!

The main image panel was achieved by stamping Versamark on glossy paper and then embossing the Silhouette Blossoms image with white embossing powder. Then I rubbed River Rock ink from the top of the image about a 1/3 of the way down, and then rubbed Lovely Lilac 2/3 of the way from the bottom of the image up. I lightly went over the River Rock portion of the image with more Lovely Lilac. The last step is rubbing the ink off the embossed image.

Silly me, I forget what this technique is called, probably because I don't ever do it! That's right. I'm a straight, simple stamper. I don't do special techniques very often! So, this card is special (for me) on a variety of levels, isn't it? It 1) is monotone in nature, 2) it utilizes a color I don't use all that much (Lilac), and 3) it utilizes a special stamping technique! Yippee! I'm stepping outside my norm! That's a good thing peeps. I promise, I'll to do it again sometime!



Well, the storm of the century that's been threatening to bear down on Minneapolis has so far side-stepped us, thank heavens. I haven't heard the latest on the weather, but I'm hoping we are out of the woods as far as snow goes for the rest of the year! No more snow!!!!

I hope you have a fabulous Saturday! Get some stamping in if you can! I plan to. Tonight we have front row tickets to the Harlem Globetrotters! I actually am sort of excited to go. I just hope they don't pull any of us out onto the court for one of their famous stunts!

Hugs,
Amy

21 comments:

  1. This is beautiful! Have fun tonight!

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  2. nonoNOnononoNO! *don't* rephrase that! i LOVE to hear someone--besides me--get excited when something turns out fabulously! & let's face it, girlfriend, this card IS magnificent!!! FACT! wooooooooow! it's even making *ME* wanna try that "white-on-white embossing & then inking it afterwards" technique! and since i'm emphatically NOT a technique gal...this is quite a miraculous card in every sense!!! :)

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  3. OH I LOVE this card!!! The colors are amazing and I love the stamp technique you used. :)

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  4. Gorgeous Card!!! I love your style!

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  5. Beautiful card! Love the colors you used and the clear embossing too.

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  6. Really love this card and the colour - your pink and green seems to be rubbing off - just finshed a card with a frog on it and mounted it on pink!!

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  7. Love the way you stepped out of your box. This card is georgeous, but then I really love anything purple. This card is very calming.
    Sounds like tonight will be great fun. Thanks for such a wonderful blog.

    Konnie

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  8. So lovely!

    Many Blessings,
    M.

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  9. This is so pretty. I'm going to have to try this technique.. I'm usually not much of a purple person but I really love this..

    I hope the storm doesn't hit. We're having low 70's this weekend. (Finally) Enjoy the Globetrotters!

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  10. Amy this is such a beautiful card. I love your choice of colour, your distressing and your embossing.

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  11. Absolutely stunning card! It makes me want to dust off my purples!
    Hugs,
    Colleen

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  12. WOW! (that is a big, bold WOW!)
    This is truely a beautiful creation!

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  13. WOW! this is so pretty! As always, fabulous creation Amy! :)

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  14. This is so gorgeous! I love it too! :-)

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  15. Absolutely stunningly fabulous, Amy! I don't usually like purple in cardmaking, but this card is absolutely GORGEOUS! Love it!

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  16. Gorgeous! I love purple but have a hard time stamping with it, you make it WORK!

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  17. What a beautiful card - I love the monochromatic look! I used to do those a lot and now I'm inspired to try it again. Lovely!

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  18. I LOVE THIS CARD!!!! I love lavender and I love everything about your card. It's gorgeous darling!

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  19. You can say it Amy, heck, YELL it! I love this card too. That embossed, inked image is outstanding.

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  20. Totally AWESOME card, Amy. I so love your cards. Have a great week! ~~ Sue

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  21. Stunning card--I think the shading is what makes it really over the top!

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