EjoyVC9 - Two layer card

Welcome to my Encourage Joy Variety Challenge! This week I am challenging you to make a card with ONLY 2 layers! This means your card-stock base is one layer and you may only have one more layer ontop of it! Hope you have fun with this! I'd love to have you share your creations here. If you share on Splitcoast Stampers please use the keyword EjoyVC9. Feel free to combine with any of the previous Ejoy challenges if you like.

Here's my 2 layer card for this challenge:

And here's a close up for the details:

I used the same bleaching technique from earlier in the week. The cat is embossed with black and the panel is popped up. I used 3 clear rhinestones. The edges of the cat panel and the whole card are bleached as well. I put a Q-tip in bleach and rubbed it along the edge. The whole card is also embossed with Texturz embossing!

The inside says: "The secret of happiness is to count your blessings not your birthdays! Happy Birthday!"

Stampin' Up! supplies: Pun Fun, Birthdays Count, Texturz embossing, Big Shot, clear rhinestones, black embossing

Colors: Rich Razzleberry, Almost Amythyst, Versamark

While by my sheep!

Here's a card I made that I got the layout from the catalogue on Page 101. I changed the colors and all the stamps.

The sheep image is embossed with black, then bleached! I also stamped and cut out a lighter pink heart to paper piece overtop! The black panel is all popped up with Stampin' Dimensionals.

My Tip of the Day:

If you're stuck for ideas and want to know where to start...

1. If you know what stamped image or theme you want to have, you can browse the catalogue and search for card layouts you like that also use a similar sized stamp.

2. You don't have to have the supplies used on the original sample, substitute for anything! ie. you don't have a certain punch - use a different one, or cut out the shape. You can also leave parts off the card or add your own touches.

3. You can also search for color combinations that you like or other techniques and put it all together. I find that's the easiest way to make a card. Take parts from others that you've seen that you like. The color combination for this card was taken from Page 140.

Stampin' Up! Supplies: Pun Fun, Scallop edge punch, button, word window punch

Colors: Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, White, Black, versamark