His Craftsmanship...

Today I want to share with you a card I created using some inspiration found at 2 peasinabucket.com.  There has been a distress ink challenge going on over there for several weeks and I haven't had a chance to work on anything.  I did find a fabulous example in the gallery and asked the maker if I could "scraplift" her idea... Jenypea graciously said yes, so you can see her beautiful work HERE.  Today, I spent some time working on a snowy background.  When I finished the background, I had to find the PERFECT sentiment to go with it...and boy, did I find the perfect sentiment!!! 



Don't you just love the color combo?

I love the deep colors achieved by distressing the white cardstock with Broken China ink and Dusty Concord...Perhaps I got a little carried away with my distressing, as it would look beautiful with lighter shades of blue too...but I just couldn't stop.  These two colors are my most favorite colors in the world, so I just kept going, and going and going!  Anyway, the contrast against the embossed stamping is just perfect, don't you think? 

After working on the stamped portion of the image, I felt I needed to add some sparkle...so I pulled out some cherished (and expensive) silver cardstock and used it to add a special touch to the card. 



The silver cord bow finishes it off!

 Applying some light colored -barely metallic ribbon also gave the card some added POP! I could have added some bling or some Stickles, but I felt I needed to stop...and not go overboard!!!

Here are the nitty gritty details:
HCPC3345 Snowflake Medley Precut Set
HCPC3312 Uplifting Scriptures Precut Set
Ranger Distress Ink: Broken China, Dusty Concord
Ranger Clear Embossing Pad
Stampendous Clear embossing powder
Versafine Onyx
White Cardstock
Bazzill Blue (Typhoon)
Silver Metallic Cardstock
ClearBags.com Silver edged organza ribbon
Offray Silver cording
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