Cheers

Good Morning.

Meet today's card inspired by the challenge at Splitcoast Stampers this morning; to create a card using your birthstone colour.  Fun, right?

Since my birthday is January 1st, (yes, I'm a New Year's baby) so my colour is Garnet.  For those of you that don't know, Garnet is a deep shade of red.

So onto my card.  I do love playing around with my Distress Oxide inks.  I did some acetate inking along the side of my card front using Fired Brick and Candied apple DOX ink.  To see a pictorial of this technique go HERE.

Next, I took out my Circles Make Circles stencil and added some stenciling along the side of my card using more of the Fired Brick.  Next I randomly inked up my Graffiti stamp and pressed that over the inked area just to add some more interest and texture.

I placed the piece inside my Misti and stamped the sentiment and the silhouette and clear heat embossed to help make them pop against the bkg.

I mounted the piece onto some black cardstock then onto a plain white card base.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

The Male Room- ANYTHING GOES

Addicted to Stamps and More- CLEAN AND SIMPLE

Seize the Birthday- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Rock Silhouette (Impression Obsession); Graffiti (Kaisercraft); Birthday Letter It (Ranger)

Inks- Distress Oxides- Fired Brick, Candied Apple (TH)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook)

Accessories and Tools- Circles Make Circles stencil (A Colorful Life); Misti (My Sweet Petunia); 

acetate sheet; Mister (TH); clear eb powder; heat tool

Circles Make Circles stencil- A Colorful Life Designs

Just use the code KarenFan10 to get a discount on stencils and masks.