A Royal Flush of Wishes

Happy Monday Peeps,

I hope you had a fab weekend. 

I'm squeaking in my card for this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I recently received an order from Spellbinders that included the Jack of All Trades bundle. It is a combination of stamps, Betterpress plates and dies. I spent some time inking up the betterpress plates with different paper and ink color combos and now have about 10 card front panels to make into actual cards. I did make one complete card that I'm sharing today, a birthday card for our friend whose birthday is Feb 2.

For this card, I combined a die cut from the Spellbinders Love On the Rock die set, which is the old fashion glass. 

The background is the largest Betterpress plate in the bundle. I used Lisa Horton Cloud 9 Charcoal Gold Shimmer to ink the plate and some Bisque Betterpress paper to get a letterpress effect. The letterpress effect is so pretty, but doesn't photograph well here. For the glass, I did direct to paper with the same ink pad over black card stock then die cut the glass. For the Manhattan drink, I used some Merlot card stock and ink blended a medium brown ink over it. 

The vellum looked a little "plain," so I used a card front die to adde some texture.

The rest of the royal flush cards are here on the inside of the card.

The club and diamond images are from another Betterpress set from the bundle, as are the all of the sentiments, front and inside. The die cut spades and card denominations are from a die set in the bundle.

It's a really  fun kit to play with and has so many options for card making.

Enjoy your week, and thanks for checking in!

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps, Betterpress plates and dies: Spellbinders Jack of All Trades Bundle

Paper: Spellbinders Betterpress Bisque card stock and Gina K Designs Vanilla and Black card stock, Gina K Designs Vellum, SU Merry Merlot card stock

Ink: Lisa Horton Charcoal Gold Cloud 9 shimmer ink pad, Gina K Designs Warm Cocoa ink pad

Other: Spellbinders Love On the Rocks die set, Simon Says Stamp Detail Swirls embossing plate die, Corner Rounder punch, Hero Arts Martini Glass dies (cherries, orange garnish, swizzle stick dies), Spellbinders Betterpress System, Spellbinders gold enamel dot embellishments, GKD Blending brush, SU Dimensionals, Connect liquid glue