Light Blue Embossed Inkadinkado Swan

Here is a card I made for a good friend's birthday. We met at uni 17 years ago and are still in touch today.

The image, from the Inkadinkado Butterflies and Birds stamp set was stamped using ColorBox Smoke Blue pigment ink and cut out. It was then matted onto the reverse of blue Core'dinations Whitewash card.

A square was die cut with a Nestabilities die from the blue Whitewash card and embossed with a square embossing folder from the Cuttlebug Decorative Squares #3 set. The detail was then sanded and the image matted onto it.

A panel of white card was embossed using the Papermania Victorian Fleur embossing folder and coloured around the edges with the Smoke Blue pigment ink and ColorBox Creamy Brown fluid chalk ink.

A strip of the light blue medallion paper from the Papermania Persimmon paper pad was matted onto the blue whitewash card and matted across the embossed card and then matted onto navy blue shimmer card.

A large white Papermania Imaginisce paper flower was coloured with the Smoke Grey ink and the Creamy Brown fluid chalk ink. A small white flower was highlighted with the Creamy Brown ink and layered with a white pearl Papermania brad coloured with a W3 Copic marker.  The flower was added in the top corner of the panel.

The sentiment, from the Studio G 'Friends For Life' mini stamp set was stamped with the Smoke Blue ink and matted on the blue whitewash card.

Champagne coloured pearls from the Kort and Godt Autumn selection and added to the embossed square and sentiment panel.

I also made a lightly different card using a 'Best Wishes' sentiment from the Papermania Just For You stamp set:

Here are the blog challenges I am entering this into:

• Crafts and Me - #38 - Stamp Something
• Digistamps4Joy - #20 - On The Wings Of A ......
• Penny's Paper-Crafty - #55 - Best Friends
• Bearly Mine - #12 - Anything Goes
• Craft Room Challenge - #1 - Anything Goes
• Creative Card Crew - Wings
• Deep Ocean Challenge - #1 - Anything Goes
• Everybody-Art - #145 - Distressing
• Scrap-Creations - Happy Birthday
• Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes
• Sparkle Creations - Use Your Favourite Colours (Blue)
• Tuesday Throwdown - #52 - Animals
• Craft Your Passion - #61 - Anything Goes
• Cupcake Crafts - #145 - Things With Tails
• Karen's Doodles - Brads and/or Eyelets
• Make It Monday - #40 - Anything Goes
• My Partner In Crafting Crime - #28 - Uncoloured Image
• Ooh La La - #81 - Happy Birthday
• Stamps & Fun = Creativity - #50 - Friends
• Scrappy Frogs - Birthdays
• Stampin' Sisters In Christ - #92 - Use Something New (stamp)
• Cupcake Inspirations - #114 - Blue and White
• Catch The Bug - Anything Goes
• Drunken Stampers - #70 - Birthdays
• One Stop Craft - #134 - Texture
• WordPlay Weekend - #5 - Tails
• AiFactory - Something New (stamp)
• Art Impressions - #19 - Monochromatic
• Do You Stack Up? - #23 - Birthday
• PaperCrafting Journey - #12 - Our Feathered Friends
• Shelly's Images - Anything Goes
• Addicted To Stamps - #5 - Bingo (Pearls, Flowers, Non-Cute Image)
• Inspire Me Fridays - #10 - Anything Goes
• Phindy's Challenge - #59 - Water
• The Poodles Parlour - #1 - Anything Goes