swap cards

I am hosting a swap over at Art Happens for no-layer cards. I find these to be the most challenging for me. No LAYERS???? You must be kidding! The swap was due a while ago, but folks are pretty relaxed over there so I'm still waiting on one participant (clearing throat..umhum BOBBIE!). even though they haven't been mailed out, I thought I'd post the two sets I made. I made an extra set because someone dropped out (HEIDI!).

Both of these were CASEd in some form or fashion from the gallery at SCS.

SUPPLIES: Flower and sentiment stamps are SU! and the block BG is Hero Arts. Inks are versamagic chalk and ranger archival black, CS is SU!, ribbon came from a share I participated in.
This is the card I did first, months ago, but it was harder than it looks and not all of them turned out perfect, so adding another card in there is my way of apologizing! Reverse masking is a great technique, it's just not something I'm very good at yet. The removable adhesive stuck to the card, or ripped off a layer when I tried to remove it, and the EP kept getting caught on the adhesive, and the ink kept smearing when I tried to wipe it off the embossed portions! ARGGH.

SUPPLIES: Stamps are SU!, CS is SU!, Inks is SU, and Ranger, clear EP, ribbon is Offray.