Merry Monday #178 - Red & Gold

Life has been busy for weeks, and I finally has a little time to craft!  The Merry Monday challenge this week is to create a card using red & gold. 

Spellbinders Dove of Peace die, sentiment heat embossed in gold.  I used a gold Sharpie metallic marker.  It is pretty, but not as shiny as my Krylon leafing pen.  Good lesson!  Pop on by Words 2 Scrap By for our Movember challenge!!

Playing with Techniques

Since Operation Write Home has suspended operations (due to so many of our deployed military coming home - yeah!), I have been playing around with different techniques.  I don't have many things I am willing to show, but have been learning a lot.  Shopping Our Stash has a challenge to use a wet medium.

I masked the square with post it paper, and inked with distress and white inks.  I stamped the SU! Lovely as a Tree and sentiment in navy pigment ink, and heat embossed with silver powder.  Card front layered onto a navy card base.  I thought the navy ink might show through better than it did, oh well!!!

Shopping Our Stash #177 - NOT Ready for Christmas

This week's title says it all: I am NOT ready for Christmas. Is anyone else getting bombarded with EARLY BLACK FRIDAY SALE ads already? Sooooo not ready for Christmas this early in November.

This week's challenge is to use a holiday stamp set to make a non-holiday card or project. Since I need yet another sympathy card, I decided to go into that direction.

Silver heat embossing on the lighthouse and Peace.  The holiday stamp is Peace, part of a Peace on Earth stamp.  Layered on silver mirrored paper and mounted on black card base.  Happy accident, since this is not exactly what I was going for, but it works. 

One more week to play along with the Words2ScrapBy.blogspot.com November challenge - Gratitude!