One Stamp, Three Ways

I am sort of "behind" on the online class, Clean & Simple Card Making.  We've been given sketches, new techniques, making one layer cards and using multiple die cut layers as well as finding ways to use the same stamp in three different ways.

Tonight I found some time to make three cards using the new Hero Arts Newspaper Skyline woodblock stamp. I hope you like it:

This first card is supposed to convey a feeling of being far away from someone one cares about, so the embossed buildings in the background are further away and obviously the popped up blue building in the foreground is here, where the sender is.  I also chose these colours as my intention was to make this more of a masculine card.  The sentiment is from Ali Edwards and the cardstock from PTI and Neenah.

This is perhaps a bit of a silly card, I am still toying with the idea of a sentiment, maybe "I miss you" or "Thinking of You", but I liked the XOXO there as a sentiment on it's own too.  It's a simple one layer card with a little masking.  The inks are distress inks, Fired Brick and Gathered Twigs. The heart is from a Hero Arts cling set called Untitled Hearts.

This is my favourite of the three.  I used the sentiment and clock from the Hero Arts Special Time set, love this set.  I stamped the big clock with some second generation Pumice Stone ink.  And then I popped a layered PTI mat stack over that, which I matted with a grey cardstock for a thin border.  The buildings are stamped with Victorian Velvet and embossed.

On a personal note, I had an amazing race this morning and my best time ever at this Half Marathon distance in 15 years!  So who says that getting old means you need to slow down!  Not me!

I hope that you all had a fabulous weekend, mine is not over yet as my daughter does not have school tomorrow so I am taking her to go and see Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked!  Should be a lot of fun!