Friendship

This week's CAS challenge over at Splitcoaststampers is "Friendship".  I have some great sentiment stamps for this so ended up making two cards.  The first one uses the sentiment as its focal image.

The background behind the sentiment was made by using a technique with ink-saturated paper towel (saved from clean-up for other projects and dried). Loll Thompson showed me the technique and she has instructions here:

http://www.stampingwithloll.com/2016...e-colours.html

The sentiment is stamped and heat embossed, and allowed to take centre stage inside an embossing folder border. I love what the sentiment says about having a friend, and I love the great font it has.

The second card has an image and another friendship sentiment, this time a quote by Charles Dickens.

I stamped my image inside a section of an embossed piece of cs.  I like the old-fashioned look of it so coloured it lightly with coloured pencils as if it were faded.  It's popped it up on fun foam. The sentiment is cut out with a label die cut.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies for card one:

Stamps - Wordsworth

Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, blue and purple Distress inks

Paper - white and mixed media cs

Size - A2

Accessories - Cuttlebug embossing folder, clear embossing powder, fun foam, paper towel

Supplies for card two:

Stamps - Viva Las Vegas and Printworks

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper - white cs

Size - A2

Accessories - coloured pencils, Quickutz embossing folder, fun foam, label die