SCS Sketch Challenge #28

Well, as promised I tried my hand at one of the SCS Sketch Challenges, and the first one I chose was SC28.

This picture is the basic sketch layout. I'm sorry the image is a little small - I have no idea how to save it a bigger size and not have it become too fuzzy or even not upload at all. It you click on the picture, it does enlarge it. I hope that you like this card sketch, and that you take it as a challenge for yourself when you next have time to sit down and stamp.

This first picture is how I started with my SC28 card. I wanted to use the polished stone technique as the majority if my cardfront. To get the flowers to be lighter, I first brayered creamy caramel onto my glossy white card stock (a requirement for polished stone). Then, I embossed the flower images (from the Sell-A-Bration stamp set Delight in Life) with versamark and clear embossing powder. After that, I used a cottonball, reinkers, and rubbing alcohol to create the chocolate chip, creamy caramel and gold polished stone paper you're looking at. If you've never made polished stone paper before, it's SO FUN!! Here's the tutorial on SCS that I used to learn how to do it myself.

This image is what I did with my piece of polished stone card stock. I wish that I had some of SU!'s gold paper - I would have used that for the flower and stamped sentiment (from the Sell-A-Bration stamp set Delight in Life) on the left-hand side of the card, but I didn't, and I learned the hard way that you can't really just "make" it by brayering card stock with gold pigment ink :)

I hope that you enjoy this challenge, and I would love for you to post a link (in your comments) to the card you come up with either on your own blog, or at SCS or somewhere else. Thanks and happy stampin'!