black magic technique

Happy Tuesday and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog.
My day started off with some exciting news.
I entered a card  into the stampin sisters in Christ challenge last week and it was chosen as one of the shining stars.

Check this post to see my entry.
They awarded me the blinkie on the side of my blog. It made me feel good to have my work acknowledged.

We went to Aidin's games last night and they won in the last inning. It was so exciting and he got to play under the lights. The boys love doing that. I guess it makes them feel like big leaguers.

This is a picture of him we took on Saturday when the boys stayed over night. I thought I would post it since I am always talking about them.
The next game we go to I will take a picture of him in his uniform and post it.




Now onto my card for today. It is actually for 2 challenges:

1.  The Monday technique lovers challenge on splitcoaststampers this week was the black magic technique. Basically what you do is stamp your image on dark paper in white pigment ink-let it dry-then color with pencils.
My paper doll friend Karen Barber has this technique down pat and even has a tutorial on her blog.
For my first attempt at this, I was ok with the outcome.

I used the kind and caring thoughts stamp set. You need a solid stamp for this technique. My designer paper is from BoBunny and the border punch from Martha Stewart.  I added some pearls in the corner and only because it looked like it was missing something.


2.  The layout for my card is from Mercy Kerin's Tuesday sketch challenge. It was a fun sketch to work with, as they usually are.

So I am closing this post because I want to try and get another card done before we go out this evening.

God bless my blogger friends.