Celebrations at Dream Valley

Happy Sunday!  I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!  We have had great weather for all of the outdoor sports yesterday!  I like the cool weather, but I'm definitely not ready for winter!

Today at Dream Valley we are looking for cards or projects for celebrations!  Our sponsor this fortnight is Digi Doodle Shop.  

The prize is a $10 gift certificate to their store!

For my card I have made a card for a male birthday.  The stamp set is from Close to My Heart.  The paper is Stampin' Up.  I originally had just planned to make this a one layer card on kraft paper, but I decided to cut it down and distress the edges and mount it on a dark bluish/purple paper.  

I hope you have a great week!

Red, White and Blue Horses

I saw this card in Michelle Zindorf's tutorials, and I had to try it out! It is a quick and easy card using the direct to paper technique.

First I heat embossed the stars in the upper left hand corner using clear embossing powder. Then I used the direct to paper technique with my Creamy Caramel all over the card except the embossed corner. On the embossed corner I used Not Quite Navy Ink. The last color to go on was the Ruby Red, and I just used the corner of that pad to smear on some stripes. The stamp is from a set I dug up from my mother-in-laws stash that I wanted to try out! It is from Stampin' Up's set Wanted. I used black ink and stamping off to get the running horses on the flag. I used my distressor tool and distressed the edges of the flag and rubbed the Not Quite Navy ink over the distressed edges. Then I just backed it on white paper and that's it! Quick and easy card, and really bright bold colors!

I entered this card into the following challenges:

Fab N Funky - Get it all out

Crafty Creations - Distressing

Tellen's Place - Ink Distressing