Sweet Stamps- For the Guys

This week at the Sweet Stamps Challenge we are making cards "For the Guys"

  I looked in the new Technique Junkies newsletter and found a technique I had not tried yet- Pulled Color. Wowza- I made a few of the backgrounds using different colors. 
  My last shopping trip at Sweet Stamps, I picked up the boat die by Marianne (199 Classic Boat Die) .  It reminded me of a boat ride my husband and I took in China. (There is also a sailboat in the set...).  I have to share some pictures-see below- then you will really see how the card means alot-and my husband will love this!
 But first, here is how I made the card- after I made the background, I die cut the boat. The boat is cut out of Coordinations cardstock, then embossed. The raised portion was sanded.
 Now, for the greenery, I needed the right leaves- so I embossed Green cardstock in the Bamboo embossing folder, highlighted the raised areas with Tank Shades Die ink and cut the embossed leaves out. Next, I embossed only the dragonfly from the Embossing folder using white cardstock, and painted it with Creative Inspirations Paint-Canary. I added green and purple dots of Spica Glitter pen ink to the dragonfly next.
 Finally- I wanted to layer color under my background panel, and could not match up the colors, so I used the Distress inks to add color- in Mustard Seed and Dusty Concord.

Here are the Sweet Stamps products I used on my card:
Boat Die HERE
Coordinations cardstock HERE  (Sandy Tans)
Bamboo Embossing Folder HERE
Shades Die ink HERE  (Tank)
Creative Inspirations paint- HERE
Spica Glitter Pens HERE
Ranger Distress Inks HERE

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These are the pictures that inspired this card...... The pictures are of an area called West Lake in Hangzhou, China. There is a boat on the lake in the distance in the first picture. It was hazy every day we were in China.....except for one day.....

   In the picture above, you can see alot of these boats- it was 5o yuan for a 1/2 hour ride (a little less than $10.00 US).  The gentleman rowing talks and tells of the history of the area..in Chinese : )  We enjoyed the scenery.......
   I tried to capture the boat thru the archway- the greenery to the Lt and under the bridge- fields of Lotus flowers.

 One more......

  These are the young newlyweds we shared a boat ride with- of course, they spoke only Chinese too, we spoke only English...... but we all still enjoyed it. There was a musical fountain in the Lake that would play about every 30 minutes or so- it was really beautiful to see.
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I hope you will join in the challenge!  Every entry qualifies you for a chance to win $20 of items from the store at  Sweet Stamps, and if you use a Sweet Stamps image- you will receive an additional chance to win! Please note- there is a limit of 10 challenges for each entry.The winner is chosen by Random.org- so everyone has a chance to win!

 Stop by the Sweet Stamps Challenge Blog HERE to see what the rest of the DT has created for the Challenge or click on the links below.

Sweet Stamps Design Team:

*   Bonnie  *  Calypso *
 * Dawn B  *   Jacki   *  Joni 

                                     *  Kendra  *  Linda                                             

                                          *  Shelly  (you are here)  *  Tamara  * 

 Challenges:

Make it Monday- Anything Goes
UnstampaBelles- Embossing
Challenges for Everybody- Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!
 Shelly