Sweet Stamp Shop Grand Reopening

Sweet Stamp Shop is having a Grand Reopening Celebration and I am a guest designer for the event.

I used the

Sail Away Sayings

stamp set for my card. I stamped the saying with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed it with sparkly blue embossing powder by Stamp N Stuff. Then I die cut it out with an X Cut/Do Crafts die and inked the inside with Ranger's distress ink. I also die cut the next largest die to mat behind it. 

The background is a stencil by Dreamweaver Stencils. I ran it through my die cut machine {Cuttlebug} to emboss the pattern onto my white cardstock. I then taped the paper and stencil to my work surface and brought in color with my ink blending tool and distress ink. I matted the background onto the blue cardstock and then onto my card base by Recollections with an 1/8 of an inch gap at the top and bottom. 

Thanks for looking.

Challenges:
http://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/ April showers
http://www.4craftychicks.blogspot.com/ Die cuts
http://cceestampers.blogspot.com/ Stencils
http://littlemissmuffetchallenges.blogspot.com/ Anything goes
http://scrapbookerphd.blogspot.com/ Focus on the sentiment
http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.ca/ Anything goes
http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/ Heat embossing
http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/ Spring is in the air
http://pennyschallenges.blogspot.com/ Anything goes
http://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/ April Showers
http://whimsyinspires.blogspot.com/ Use a die cut