Skater Boy ~ Creative Expressions Silhouette Skateboards

Hello bloggers I hope that you are well and the week is going well for you.  I spent a few hours yesterday in a fabric shop drooling and stroking the gorgeous fabrics, purchased a few things too.  Back to card making and today's card is one for the skateboarders in your life.

This card began as a white A4 sheet of Centura card stock that I cut and scored to make a card blank 4x7.  Next using a Hobbycraft 'skateboard' stamp and faded jeans distress ink I randomly stamped the front of the card.  Next using a background stamp from Creative Expressions 'silhouette skateboards' stamp set with pumice stone, bungled sage and broken china distress inks. I stamped the image onto white card stock.  This was then cut down in size and then cut into two pieces.  Onto one of the pieces I stamp a silhouette skateboarder using the same stamp set as above and staz-on black ink pad.  I then stamp a different skateboard silhouette onto the other piece of card.  Next the two toppers were adhered to the left and right hand sides of the card.  Finally I stamped my sentiment onto white card stock using faded jeans distress ink.  This was then punched out using a circle punch.  With the faded jeans distress ink I inked up the edges of the circle.  Using the background stamp in my hand and pumice stone distress ink I picked out areas of the stamp and stamped over the circle.  The circle was then adhered into the center of the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

You're Awesome - skateboard

Hello, bloggers today's card is all about the sport of skateboarding.

This card began as an A6 hammered card blank.  I cut some blue mirror board to make a mat slightly smaller than the card blank.  Next I cut another mat smaller than the mirror board one from white card stock, onto which I stamped the background of my card.  I used Creative Expressions 'silhouette skateboard' stamp set and the following distress ink pads faded jeans, broken china and tumbled glass.  I randomly stamped the stamp all around the card stock using my hand instead of an acrylic block.  Next using the mud splat stamp from the same set I stamped these in faded jeans around the background.  Using black soot distress ink I then stamped the silhouette skateboarders directly onto the background. With a dark blue ProMarker I edge the mirror board and topper card to blend in the white edges.  Finally I stamped the sentiment using black soot distress ink.  I then die cut it with Spellbinders 'back to basic tags'.  It was then embossed with the That Special Touch 'tyre tracks' mask leaving the spellbinders die still on the tag.  Whilst still in the die I then inked through with faded jeans distress ink and then snipped off the shaped tag hole part. The topper and mirror board where then adhered to the card blank and the tag attached to the topper.

This card is being entered in to the following  challenges

Allsorts Challenge week 206 - Any Sport

You can check out the details here http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/week-206-any-sport.html

Cute Card Thursday Challenge 268 - Something blue

you can check out the details here http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/challenge-268-something-blue.html

Happy Crafting xx Hazel