With Love

Hi Bloggers.

Thanks for all your support yesterday. I was worried about getting there but the roads were fine and I had allowed myself plenty of time to get there. It was quite nice to have 2 shows quite close together in the afternoon.

Today's card was a demo in the 3pm show and I made it to show off some of the Pinks & Purples Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powders. Well, here there's actually 3 of the pink ones anyway.

As always, I'll start with the background. I spritzed a piece of Coconut White Card with Antique Rose Vintage Mister. I dried it with my heat tool (I'm too impatient to wait for it to air dry) and then placed the Ivy Border Mask across the top section. I inked over the top of the mask with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink. I moved the mask down the the middle of the background and inked again, then repeated in the bottom section. I then randomly stamped one of the flowers from the Creative Expressions Funky Floral Stamp Set using Victorian Velvet.

For the 3 large panels, I used one of the large scroll stamps from the stamp set. I dusted some Coconut White Card with my anti-static bag and stamped with Perfect Medium. I added Cosmic Shimmer Lapis Pink Aurora Embossing Powder (the one on the left) and heat set. I cut it out using Spellbinders Matting Basics B.

I stamped again and added Cosmic Shimmer Tropic Pink Blaze Embossing Powder (the one in the centre). Again I cut out using Matting Basics B trying to get it in roughly the same position.

Then I stamped and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Sunrise Pink Lustre Embossing Powder (the one on the right hand side) and cut out with Matting Basics B.

I stamped a heart from the same stamp set and embossed in each of the powders. I cut them out with scissors and popped one on top of each panel mixing them up. I cut a pink mat out for each panel using Matting Basics A.

The Funky Floral Stamp Set hasn't got any sentiments as such but it does have lots of single words in different fonts so you can make up your own sentiment. I like that. I placed the 'With' and 'Love' stamps on my block and stamped with Perfect Medium. I chose to emboss with the Sunrise Pink Lustre Powder. I cut it out with Matting Basics A and cut a pink mat out using Matting Basics B.

I assembled the card as shown adding some dots of Cosmic Shimmer Pearlescent PVA in Vintage Pink around the edges.

Just before I sign off today, I know some of you have been put off buying the Matting Basics Dies as, let's face it, they are a bit boring compared to many of the other Spellbinders dies. But, I have to say I find that I use them a lot especially A's and B's together as you get an 1/8" increment. Of course you can cut rectangles yourself but it's the embossed edge that really does it for me. And, there are a lot of yummy Card Creator dies coming out which build on the core (a fave Spellbinders term it seems) that the Matting Basics Sets give you. Just food for thought!

All for now. Let me know what you think of the Pinks & Purples Embossing Powders.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.