Encore Challenge

 

Today I am debuting another new challenge called The Encore Challenge!  This is a monthly challenge to be posted on the 25th with a group of friends, also from the April Retreat.  Some may post on their blog and I will note those with blogs at the end of this post.  And, some might post on other social media. Darlene came up with this challenge and these are her words:  Go and grab a stamp set, stencil or dies--your choice, that you have used once before and have always wanted to revisit it and use it again.  However, despite your best intentions, you have yet to use it!  Now's your chance! Go dig it out and have fun with it once again.  Create anything you like, a card, gift card holder, decorate a gift bag, make a refrigerator magnet...whatever lights up your creative juices! So--Encore Challenge! 

My plan is to pick a different company each month to highlight and maybe even a different product than the month before.  For January, I picked a Gina K Designs stamp set that has some ink on it, so I used it once before.  It has a sweet lily image and some sweet sentiments.

For my card, I stamped the image and sentiment in Hero Arts Intense Black ink on a panel.  I colored the image with my Copic Sketch Markers.  I then die cut the  white panel with the image and another white panel, both with Pinkfresh Studio Nested Elongated Oval dies.  I then used my Stampin' Up Exposed Brick embossing folder for the cardbase for  bit of texture.  I die cut one of the sentiments with a Stitched Oval die from The Paper Cut.  I added some Pinkfresh Studio Peach Fuzz Jewels around the image.

 

I am not sure who will post each month on their blog, but this is a list of the other ladies who do have blogs.  Jeanette, Carol, Terry, Darlene and Rebekah.  Be sure to come back on February 25th  to see another fun card for The Encore Challenge!


Image/Sentiment:  Gina K Designs Thank You Friend

Cardstock:  The Paper Cut 100# Cougar Opaque White

Ink: Hero Arts Intense Black; 

Accessories:  Pinkfresh Studio Elongate Oval Dies, Peach Fuzz Jewels; The Paper Cut Stitched Oval Die; Copic Sketch Markers;  Stampin' Up Exposed Brick 3D Embossing Folder