World Card Making....WEEK!!!

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                                                                      ----------Stephen Baker


Hi, Friends......

Did you know that the folks over at the Winnie & Walter blog are sti-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-lllllll celebrating World Card Making Day????  That's why they are calling it World Card Making Week!  They have a ton of fun challenges each with coooooooooool prizes that are still open through Saturday evening!!!  I am so delighted they are doing this because I did not have a chance to make any cards last Saturday.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand.......to add icing to the cake, there is also a chance at their Grand Prize of a $50 W&W Gift Voucher if you enter at least 3 of the 7 challenges with a different card for each.  You do not have to use any of their products, although it would be wonderful if you do.  

That's still not all........If you don't have a chance to enter the challenges, you can still enter their comment contest by commenting on each of their WCMD posts!!  How cool is that????

One of the challenges is a super-easy one:  A WCMD Craftie!!!   All you have to do is take a shot of your craft room or table with a WCMD craft in progress, or perhaps one of you and/or your crafty pals working together, or something similar for WCMD.  This counts as one of the three challenges for the Grand Prize contest!!!

So here's my craftie:

 

I am in the middle of heat embossing the living daylights (whatever those are!!) out of a piece of cardstock for what I hope will be an entry in the Pattern Play with Shay challenge.  :) 

This beleaguered piece of white cardstock has had a bunch of techniques exacted upon it......and I love it more and more with everything I do to it!  It started out as one of my reject backgrounds in this MFP challenge.  I put distress inks on my Darice Henna embossing folder and put it through the Big Shot.  I loved the colored and textured pattern, but it lacked something.  So this week I decided to begin adding rusty bronze and copper metallic embossing powders to it......over and over.....till I saw that lovely metallic sheen that makes my eyes glitter and gleam.  @@

Here's a shot of my background after I got all the heat embossing done:

 My camera is not capturing all the gleam in this, but I hope this angled shot gives you a little idea of how shiny it is:  

Now I just need to make a card from it!!!!!  :)

Thanks for stopping by today.  And many, many thanks to Walter & Winnie for keeping their challenges open all week!!!!  I hope some of my readers will be inspired to join in, too!!!  Tell them Her Peaceful Garden sent you.  :)

<3

Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this craftie in the following challenge:
1. Winnie & Walter WCMD Craftie Challenge