Make The Grade!

Hi everyone,

How is your day going so far?? Good I am hoping! My card today is for the challenge I do with a group of friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. This week Charlene Merrick our challenge hostess for February has another fabulous challenge for us. This time round it is a Color Challenge, we had to us the colors Ruby Red, Caramel, Black and one neutral (white or ivory), we also had to incorporate dry embossed DP.

For my card I used MFT Stamps “Pure Innocence You Make The Grade” stamp set! I can never get enough of the Pure Innocence range! After coloring the blackboard with my dark grey copic marker, I then sponged on a little bit of white brilliance ink to make it look like chalk dust. I used my plaid cuttlebug embossing folder to emboss the caramel background layer which I also sponged over with caramel ink. I also paper pieced the little girls sweater using the same design paper that I used on the circle layers.

Inside my card I used EK Success’ ABC Border punch to create the punched border. The sentiment is from the “You Make The Grade” stamp set that I used for the front of my card.

Don’t forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

• Tosh
• Charlene
• Cindy
• Joanne
• Shirley

Stamps: PI Make The Grade – MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Black; Caramel; Red; DP

Other: Black Ink; Caramel Ink; Black Grosgrain Ribbon; Red Button; Thread; Plaid Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; EK Success ABC Border Punch; Foam Tape; Copics