CAS Christmas Card Challenge-Masculine

Hello my crafty friends, I hope your Sunday is going well. We started off with nice sunshine for most of the day. Now it is black out and a storm is coming. We had mostly a sunny day! Still raining here and the yard smells moldy-not good for my mold allergies, but I keep taking my allergy meds hoping for a dry out at some point. But I was thankful for the sun today!

I am flying in under the wire, hopefully, to join in at the CAS Christmas Card Challenge where I think it is a masculine Christmas card they are looking for. So I hope this card qualifies! As always, everything I used will be listed in the recipe section at the end of this post. In hind sight, I should have shadowed my letters with black, and I was going to do just that, but forgot since I was rushing to get this done before the challenge closed and I was treating the hot tub as well before the storm hits. But overall I am pretty happy with how this came out. I used grey real brush pen on my house to give it a little shadow, but you really can't see it to well in the photo, but can in real life.

Then I thought I would try my hand at the encrusted jewel embossing. Well, tried is the key word!!! What a mess! lol I finally got smart and used a frying pan with a silicon mat to protect the frying pan and then held my heat gun up high while the stove was heating underneath. That worked out pretty good. I just don't have much stuff to use to make the encrusted embossing to look good, but it isn't a loss either. Here is what it looks like:

So not a total loss, and the picture doesn't even do it justice as you can't really see the colors that are in it. But not like what I've seen you all do either!  Still usable though and so in the UFO box it will go until I decide how I want to use it. 

As always, I thank you for stopping by and visiting a spell. Sorry it has been so soggy around here. lol The rain is coming down as I type. Your comments always bring sunshine into my life though and for that I thank you!!!!

Crafty Hugs,

Card Recipe:

My Creative Time-Upper Case Fun Dies
My Creative Time-Christmas House- for the sentiment
Stamplorations-house NBUS I think
Distress Inks-Chipped Sapphire, Stormy Sky, Broken China
Dusting Brush to do the sky
Versafine Black Ink
Ranger Clear Embossing Powder
Yellow and Light Grey Zig or Arteza Real Brush Pens
White Gel Pen
Gelly Roll Sparkle Pen
Paper Studio plaid paper from Hobby Lobby

Heart:
Ultra Thick Embossing Powder
SU Silver EP
Wow Platinum EP
SU Espresso EP
SU Gold EP
Gold Glass Glitter
Sugar Coating-Lily White
Versa Mark