Abstract Embossing meets Glimmering Waves

Call me a goober, but one of the things I love about having a group of stamps on a sheet is mixing and matching them -- and ALSO seeing how different I can make them look from each other. Today I am doing just that. You see, this card was made from the same sheet of rubber as the card in the Giveaway Post, below, from I Brake for Stamps. Where that one is cute, this one is elegant. Same stamp sheet, different look and feel. Cool, huh? Okay, I know... I'm a goober.

For this card I used two techniques. First I stamped "NOEL" in VersaMark, then used the Abstract Embossing Technique from the April 2005 issue of the Technique Junkie Newsletter to add the blaze of color. I colored the inside of the letters with a black marker, then cut and mounted them, then placed them on a background of Glimmering Waves (April 2008 TJNL), where I also used the Abstract Embossing Technique. The background was so pretty, I really had a hard time covering it up! Click on the image if you want to see it up-close. And if you have not done so already enter the giveaway (but not on THIS post, enter it on yesterday's post, here!

Make sure to take a look at the Holiday Blogstravaganza submissions from the Technique Junkie Design Team:

Lisa Somerville of Splendiferous Creations

Kimm Bennington-Thompson on Artful Sentiments by Kimm (I missed this yesterday!)
Jane Bosi on Jane's Addiction
Connie Piotter on SoDak Stamper
Judy Jackson on the Technique Junkie Design Team Blog
Beth Norman on Sunflowers and Dragonflies