Sunday and a GDTM make to share

Morning peeps,

I'm delighted to have been asked to guest on the Design Team over at Pixie's Crafty Workshop where the lovely Di hosts a fortnightly challenge to use snippets ... and who doesn't have tons of those? I hope you will follow my link and join the fun there. In the meantime, here is my make for her challenge ..

My card

And a closer view - to show the texture

  

The front, back and inside of my card along with the front and back of my envelope

Materials used:

• White A2/C6, 250gsm, card and matching sized envelope
• Snippets of card in black, silver mirri, white and grey
• Nesting square "faux stitched" die used to cut a black square
• Grey grosgrain ribbon
• Double sided tape and dimensional foam tape
• Motorcycle image (unmounted rubber I've had so long I no longer have ANY idea who its by) and sentiment from The Cats Pyjamas (S5845-CL)
• Archival jet black, Versafine onyx black and Versamark clear embossing inks
• Heat It Up clear embossing powder
• Heat gun

I used the "Black Ice" technique on this card, I discovered it recently and I am LOVING it - so good for male cards, IMHO ... I've added a link to the blog post where I first used this technique .... there's a video embedded in to post along with another example of this fab technique

  

Additionally, I'll be entering the above make for the following challenges:-

1. Sweet Stampin' - March 10th challenge - INSPIRED BY A SONG ..... I went with Chris Spedding's Motorbikin' ... see video at the bottom of this post
2. Elliebelle's Creative Moments - challenge No. 6 - ANYTHING GOES
3. Alphabet Challenge - March 2nd challenge - "Y" if for YOUR CHOICE .. so I went with "M" for masculine and monochrome!
4. Seize The Birthday - March challenge - ANYTHING BIRTHDAY GOES
5. Jo's ScrapShack - challenge No. 224 - ANYTHING GOES