Finally Friday Challenge - CASED

Happy Friday!

Hope everyone has had a good week thus far. We've had some great weather here, all week long, and even got to play outside! No more snow! It's suppose to be a cooler weekend though, of course!

Today on Erin's blog, Scrap Stamp and Be Merry, she has her Finally Friday Challenge posted and it's to CASE a card you've seen on a blog. CASEing means to Copy And Share Everything. I saw a card last month on Beate's blog, Fresh and Fun, it was absolutely stunning, as always. So when I saw Erin's challenge today, I just knew that was the card to CASE. Beate's card can be seen HERE.

I chose to use the same color combination of Ruby Red, Chocolate Chip, and Soft Sky for the papers, but I added a Very Vanilla layer to stamp my image on to. The Ruby Red piece was stamped with the swirl/vine from Baroque Motifs and then the edges were sponged with Ruby Red and Pumpkin Pie ink.

Beate used a special technique for stamping her main image, but I did the Thumping Technique from SCS for mine. You just ink your image in one color and then tap different color(s) on randomly with the side of a brush tipped marker. Here I stamped with Wild Wasabi and then thumped/tapped with Ruby Red and Pumpkin Pie markers. It gives it a marbled look.

Next, I sponged the edges of the other layers of cardstock, the Chocolate Chip is sponged with Chocolate Chip and the Soft Sky with Soft Sky. I also sponged Soft Sky on the top of the image piece and Wild Wasabi on the bottom. I added white gel pen dots by hand around the image layers for a border. The final touch was a piece of Hodgepodge and some ribbon.

Besides the different stamping technique and additional paper color, the changes I made when making my card were; added butterflies to the image piece, left out the sentiment, and changed the ribbon colors. This was a fun challenge. Hope you get the chance to play along. Have a great weekend. Happy Stamping! :)