…a diamond in the rough

Sharing a card for one of my staff featuring the Galaxy Galore Background stamp from Whimsy Stamps and an image from the Magical Nights Messages from Hero Arts.

The layout of my card follows the current sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.  To form the large and small rectangle elements I cut a mask out of some scrap paper and placed this over my cardstock.  I then inked up the Galaxy Galore Background stamp with VersaMark ink then sprinkled over my gold embossing powder.

To form the scalloped element I then embossed one of the diamonds from the Hero Arts’ Magical Nights Messages and fussy cut it, popping it up on a foam dot.  I did the same for one of the other diamond shapes only this time I stamped out two images and fussy cut right down to the centre shape in the diamond to create smaller shapes.

I went with all these tiny images so I could play along at Less is More for their more but still less, well, OK CAS but same same, OK so I like the contradictory sound of more but less better!  For interest I went with a gold on black colour scheme so my ‘white space’ required for it to be CAS is actually black because white space doesn’t literally mean white and hey, we’re going with opposites here (more as less etc, you get my drift, right?!).

I kept my embellies real simple and combined it with my sentiment, using one of Tim’s Small Talk stickers matted on more of his scrummy gold cardstock.  This card is actually to celebrate one of my staff getting promoted into a new team doing a different kind of work so I thought it was appropriate.  And by now you get this card isn’t following the conventional so figures I wouldn’t stick a ‘congratulations’ sentiment on it.

Now my decoration is more or less sticking to one corner of the card so I’m entering it at AAA Cards.  I swung the optional twist too with my older stamps I’ve used.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Stampendous! Embossing Powder ~ Detail Gold

Embellishments

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie Stickers ~ Small Talk

Inks & Paints etc

Tsukineko Ink ~ VersaMark

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Hero Hues Cardstock ~ Pitch Black

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie Kraft-Stock ~ Metallic

Stamps

Hero Arts CM222 ~ Magical Nights Messages

Whimsy Stamps ~ DDB0013 Galaxy Galore Background

Challenges

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