Soft and Bold

I made two cards that are totally on opposite sides of the color spectrum. I had bought some black and white scrapbook paper at Michael's and I knew I wanted to add a splash of red to it and so this is the card I came up with using Our Daily Bread designs' Keep My Lamp Burning set. I had originally created this for the CPS101 sketch but decided to go with another card altogether. I removed the shank of the button and used it as the center for my bow.

For my Stampin' Up Stipple Rose card, I followed today's SCS sketch challenge, SC216, and yesterday's color challenge, CC206. Kelley had pointed me to a very talented stamper's blog, Jerri Kay, and I fell in love with her style. I always heat emboss my images in fine black detail powder, but Jerri always uses a mixture of gold powders to achieve a much more elegant and refined look. I only had one type of gold embossing powder but this will change soon enough!