…and I’m all outta gum

Sharing a super CAS card featuring the awesomely quirky Oddball Gamer from Stamping Bella.

I’ve used the sketch over at Sunday Stamps for the layout of this card.  I layered up a couple of mats below my watercolour cardstock top layer using one designer paper and one coloured cardstock layer.  To add in the rectangular element I embossed a frame around my coloured image, although it’s a bit hard to see in the photo.  I then added in the two accents lines with some embossing powder.

I went down the embossing route, rather than a die cut frame, in order to play along at Less is More.  And this card definitely is on the less side, no fussy cutting, no die cuts, no embellies, just that fab image and a bit of embossing.  I think the minimalist approach works though for a card heading out to my gamer teenage nephew.

And, as this is a male card, I am also linking it up over at Crafty Friends where they’re asking you to do one of those more difficult male cards.  Although, frankly, with these Oddball images from Stamping Bella it really isn’t all that difficult to bring a bit of handmade joy to the males in our lives!

This card is also my DT project for the June challenge at Bizzy Bec’s.  Our theme is always anything goes so it’s super easy to enter and doing so gets you a chance at a die or stamp chosen by Bec.  Well worth the effort of linking up, I say, so hope to see you over there.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder ~ Pine Needles

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Spellbinders Nestabilities ~ S6-002 5x7 Matting Basics B

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Black Soot, Faded Jeans, Ground Espresso, Hickory Smoke, Mowed Lawn & Tea Dye

Tsukineko ~ VersaMark Pen

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Glitz Dapper Dan Collection ~ Geometric

Stampin’ Up! Cardstock ~ Garden Green

Stamps

Stamping Bella ~ EB685 Oddball Gamer

Challenges

Crafty Friends #111

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