In Everything Give Thanks - Eggspecially for You

An appropriate title for the season of Lent I think (the first part that is!) - a good reminder for us all. The featured stamper on Split Coast this week was Kelly H who has some beautiful cards in her gallery - I finally decided on this card to CASE. And here is the card I created:

I loved the white embossing on her card - but I don't have the stamp set she used (can you believe there is a stamp I don't have???! Shocking - I know!! LOL!!) - so I substituted the Bird Call cuttlebug folder which has similar lines. First I inked the inside of the front of the folder with First Snow Ink by Papertrey - put the card stock in the folder and ran it through the cuttlebug. I love the look that this technique gives. I cleaned off my folder immediately after embossing.

I added a second blue shade of color to my card by using the Blue Bayou for the Bible Verse (Verve Visual) and the framing of the cuttled panel. I did emboss the sentiment using Versamark embossing ink and white embossing powder. The butterfly was punched out of Glitter card stock using a Martha Stewart punch. I attached it to the card with a glue dot. I really like how the cuttled panel came out on this using the ink.

Stamps: Verve Visual - Pray without ceasing
Paper: White: PTI, baja breeze, blue bayou: SU, Solid Glitter White: Provo
Ink: Fresh Snow: PTI, Versamark Embossing Ink
Accessories: White EP, foam dimensionals, butterfly punch - Martha Stewart, Bird Call Cuttlebug folder, cuttlebug, Fresh Snow Satin ribbon: PTI, hot gun

Today's Clean and Simple (CAS) challenge on Split Coast was to use piercing or drawn dots on your card to highlight the image.In keeping with the 'less is more' idea of Clean and Simple cards - I simply stamped this egg on a white square, mounted it to a plum pudding square (I know - it looks black in the picture - the trials of night time photo shooting!) mounted that to the card - stamped the sentiment underneath the image and then used my Stampin Up grid, mat and piercer to add the lines of piercing. The card looks simple - but I went through 3 colors and 3 different stamps before I got the combination that looked good to me!! And I do like how the piercing looks on this!

This pretty egg and coordinating sentiment are from a new H&M Stamp Set called Eggstraspecial. It's one of Heather's 3 new sets so be sure to check it out!

We had about 7" of new snow today - mostly during morning commute - oh joy!

Thanks so much for coming by!

Stamps: Eggstra Special: H&M Stamps
Paper: white, Plum Pudding: PTI
Ink: Plum Pudding: PTI
Accessories: paper piercer, grid, mat: SU, creative memories square punch