Howdy stamping friends, It's Monday, time for another Challenge over at Late Night Stampers.  This week, Embossed….I wasn't sure if we were Big Shot Embossing, or Heat embossing, so I combined both into my project.

First, I inked up my stamp, I used Melon Mambo and Rose Red for the Flowers and Old Olive for the stems and leaves.  For the "cone" on the flower, I used Soft Suede and edged that with Chocolate Chip.  I used the sponge daubers to do all this.

I stamped my image onto a piece of Whisper White, then I stamped it again, without reinking it.

I used the second faded image to cut out and "MASK" over my good image

I inked up my "En Francais background stamp with my Versamark pad, stamped over my image, sprinkled gold embossing powder over it, shook off the excess and heat set it with my Heat Tool.

Then I cut a big Hole in it, LOL!.

I used the Scallop Circle Die and my Big Shot for the Background piece (page 199),

The Circle I cut with the image on it is 3-1/8

The Black Mat is 3-1/4

My card base is 6 x 12 of Melon Mambo, scored and folded at 6,

The piece of Old Olive is 5 x 5-1/2, I embossed the bottom only, with one of my "Whacked" embossing boarders.

The Basic Black piece is 4-1/2 square, I embossed the whole thing with the Finial Press Embossing folder, (page 195), yes, the new one I bought after I "whacked" up the first one….hey, a girl's gotta have toys!"

So I layered all of these pieces

I embossed the sentiment on a scrap of Whisper White, then, as my flower stamp still had ink on it, I huffed on it, and got a nice light background image behind my sentiment.

My layers for this piece, is the Scallop Circle Punch in Melon Mambo, the basic black mat is 1-3/8 Circle Punch and the sentiment is the 1-1/4 punch (all on pages 186 and 187).

and here it is all put together.  I made the Old Olive bow with my new satin ribbon from the Occasions Mini,  (page 27)

I also pierced some holes around the scalloped circles using the Mat Pack and Piercing Tool (page 191)

There you go, my first embossed piece for our Design team Challenge, stay tuned for more

If you live in the Sequim, Port Angeles Area in Washington State, or you want to visit it on May 15th?  This is where I started my Stampin Up Career and as there are 3 in my downline up there now, I booked a hall and we are going to arrange an afternoon of fun filled stamping.

We are working out the details.  It is a wheel chair accessible venue, it is a half day event and we are going to fill it with Awesome stamping projects for you.  I'm so excited to be going to visit and stamp with this great group who have all become such dear friends, so if you would like more details, come on back for a visit.  As soon as I nail down all the details, we will be putting up a pre-registration and there are only a certain amount of seats, so first come – first served.

Thanks for visiting.  It happens to be an extremely sunny day here today, so I'm off to rake some leaves, and I need to cut my grass – but I won't…our daffodils are also about to bloom, how nice…..it's supposed to rain the whole rest of the week, so I have to take advantage of this.

I promise to stamp more for you tomorrow though.

Big Hugs to you all and hope you get some sunshine where you live today too.