Bloggers Challenge: Week 19

I guess you could call this card "Boots with Bling!" This week's challenge was to use lots of embellishments in your project. So, I went with buttons and bling on this one.

I used the now-retired SU! set Flower Filled for the main image. The boots are stamped in Blue Bayou ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. To do this, first I inked the stamp with Versamark, then inked immediately after with a layer of Blue Bayou. This made the image just tacky enough for the clear embossing powder to stick to the image. I usually heat emboss the boot image when I use this set, since it makes me think of those traditional rain boots in yellow or black with a glossy finish. I saw some real cute patterned ones in this style at Target--if I still did playground duty at a school, I would definitely have bought a pair!

The flowers are made with one of the small stamps from Little Flowers. I used some very tiny buttons that I got in a big box of assorted buttons as flower centers. The buttons made a perfect size center for the flower image. I also added a small rhinestone to the center of each button.

The sentiment is made with layers of circles. I used one of the circles from Papertrey Ink's Borders & Corners set, combined with a sentment from their Paper Tray set.

Cosmo and I are heading off for a little getaway at my family's house on the Delaware Bay for the weekend. The beach is so nice at this time of year--crisp, cool, and quiet. I'm sure there will be some outlet shopping going on, too. Please be sure to check out what the other challenge participants have done for this challenge. You can find links to their blogs in the sidebar on the right. I'm looking forward to checking their creations out when I get home at the end of the weekend.

Materials Used:

Flower Filled and Little Flower stamp sets, Bayou Blue, Certainly Celery, Real Red, and Soft Sky Classic inks, Versamark, Blue Bayou, Real Red, Soft Sky, Kraft, and Whisper White cardstock, Soft Sky Prints Series designer paper, Clear embossing powder, slit punch, Blue Bayou stitched grosgrain, 1 1/4" and 1 3/8" circle punches, silver brads, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); Paper Tray and Borders & Corners-Circles stamp sets (Papertrey Ink); rhinestones and buttons (Walmart); 1 1/2" circle punch (EK Success)