Feathers

Hi Bloggers,

Today I'm sharing another demo card from last week.

This is such a quick card to make but perfect for a man I think.

I stamped the script stamp from the Creative Expressions Texture Stamp Set with the Paris Trunk Stone Dye Ink Pad.

I dusted the background with my anti-static bag. I then inked up the feather stamp from the Creative Expressions Art Nouveau Ladies stamp set with Perfect Medium. I stamped the feather on the left first and covered the image with Cosmic Shimmer Lava Black Aurora Embossing Powder. I heat set it. The powder leaves a 'bloom' on the card. This can easily be removed by gentle rubbing with a tissue. So after doing this, I stamped another feather and this time added Comic Shimmer Lapis Black Aurora Embossing Powder. I heat set it and wiped with my tissue. I stamped my final feather and added Cosmic Shimmer Viola Black Aurora Embossing Powder.

I scraped my Perfect Medium Pad along two sides of the image panel and added Cosmic Shimmer Arctic Black Aurora Embossing Powder. I then repeated this on the other two sides.

I stamped the sentiment from the Creative Expressions Simply Sentiments stamp set using Perfect Medium. I added the Lapis Black Aurora to it and heat set. I cut the sentiment out using an oval nestie. I went round the edges with my Perfect Medium Pad and added Lava Black Aurora powder and heat set.

I mounted the image panel onto black card them silver, added the sentiment - job done! What do you think? Have a go yourself. The embossing powders are gorgeous and are all in the Metallics set that was on the show.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia

Pink and Purple Ladies

Hi Bloggers.

Today I'm sharing a card with you that I made to demo on the Dawn Bibby & Friends Show on Tuesday.

The brief for Dawn's show was for 20 minutes with a sub-set of the products that I had for the main shows that day. I needed to used the stamp sets, the Couture Creations Embossing Folders, Vintage Ribbon and the Pink Taffeta and Amethyst Paris Trunk Dye Ink Pads. Of course, I hadn't made a sample card with that combo so I had to make one!

For the background I ran a piece of white card through the Grand Calibur with the Couture Creations Lovingly Baroque Embossing Folder. I ran it through a second time as the card was wider than the folder. When doing this, remember to leave the already embossed bit outside of the plates.

I then rubbed the Amethyst Ink pad all over the embossed card. The ink stays wet for a while so I added some Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder to the whole area. A small amount of ink was also present between the embossed pattern so the powder stuck there too. I heat set it with my heat tool. Then went over the whole area again with the ink, added powder and heat set again. I repeated this process once more. This gave me a beautiful embossed tile background.

On the show I demonstrated that you do not need a block to stamp and indeed if you have problems with large stamps you can have the stamp face up, ink it and then take the card to the stamp carefully keeping it still while rubbing all over. The stamp was inked with Jet Black Archival and embossed with clear embossing powder.

The image was coloured using Paris Trunk Dye Ink Pads - Walnut and Yellow Damasque for the hair, Blotter for the foliage, Parchment for the skin, Fountain Blue for the outline. I used the Pink Taffeta and the Amethyst for the remaining areas, adding a little Cosmic Shimmer Pealescent Mica Powder here and there. I also used a little Cosmic Shimmer Pale Gold Mica Powder on the choker on the middle lady. I mounted the image panel on to some white card which was inked with the Pink Taffeta.

I stamped the sentiment from the Simply Sentiments stamp set using Jet Black Archival and embossed with clear powder. I edged the panel with Amethyst ink and mounted it onto another piece of white card which had been edged with the Pink Taffeta.

I made 2 roses with the Pink Vintage Ribbon. You can see how to do this on Sue Wilson's DVD or by visiting her Blog.

I cut some leaves from the Spellbinders Foliage Die Set.

I assembled the card as shown inking with the Pink Taffeta and the Amethyst for the mats for the embossed tile background.

Hope you like this card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.

Beautiful Lady in Blue

Hi Bloggers,

Today I have another card made with the Creative Expressions Beautiful Ladies stamp set. This card nearly ended up in the bin - more about that later.

I stamped the lady using Jet Black Archival and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder. I coloured her in using Eco Green Paris Trunk Dye Ink Pads in Classic Cobalt, Fountain Blue, Walnut, Stone and Parchment. I added some Cosmic Shimmer Pearlescent Mica Powder to the Classic Cobalt.

I stamped the sentiment from the Creative Expressions Simply Sentiments stamp set using Jet Black Archival and embossed with Clear Embossing Powder. I cut the sentiment out using Spellbinders Curved Rectangles and inked around the edges with the Fountain Blue ink while still in the die. I made a faux nestie out of cobalt card.

I ran a piece of blue pearlescent card through the Grand Calibur with the Couture Creations Cultivated Embossing Folder. I cut 2 borders in cobalt blue from the Spellbinders Parisian Accents die set.

I started assembling my card with the mat layers up to and including the cobalt blue one. At this point I added the Parisian borders and ran some Vintage Ribbon in Limoges Blue along them. I added the lady and the sentiment panel. I then went around the edges of the aqua card with some dots made with Cosmic Shimmer Pearlescent PVA. This is where disaster struck - one of the dots had a stringy line coming from it - near the top left-hand side of the card. My choices were to try and dismantle the card, throw the whole lot in the bin or carry on and repair once the dots were dry. I chose the latter and pleased I did.

I had planned on just putting a messy bow on the bottom right-hand side. Instead I removed some of the teal dots from the top left-hand corner where the naughty dot was and added some ribbon over the top. I added my bow plus a flower from Spellbinders Spiral Blossom Two and some little leaves from Spellbinders Foliage die set. Mess fixed!

In the bottom right-hand side I added another flower from Spiral Blossom Two and a mix of leaves from the foliage die set.

So, the card ended up a bit more embellished than I had originally intended but I do quite like it and I'm so glad I didn't put it in the bin!

Hope you like it too.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia

All We Need Is Love

Hi Bloggers,

Hopefully Blogger will be behaving itself and will schedule this while I'm on a plane on my way to Cyprus for a half term holiday with the family. I've scheduled posts for every day while I'm away (fingers crossed!). My Amazon Store will be closed till I get back.

Today I'm sharing this card with you -

I stamped the image from the Creative Expressions Beautiful Ladies stamp set using Jet Black Archival and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder. I coloured using Eco Green Paris Trunk Dye Ink Pads - Parchment, Pink Taffeta, Fountain Blue, Peach Satin, Amethyst, Blotter, Garnet, Classic Cobalt, Yellow Damasque and Walnut. I also used some Copper, Pale Gold and Pearlescent micas from the Cosmic Shimmer Mica Spray Set 1 - Metallics.

I ran 2 pieces of ivory card through the Grand Calibur with the Creative Expressions Fauna Embossing Folder. Using Cut & Dry Foam, I then inked over one piece with the Garnet Ink and the other with the Classic Cobalt Ink. I joined the two pieces together on a black mat and ran a piece of Black Vintage Ribbon down the centre to hide the join.

I popped my ladies onto the card. The sentiment is from the Creative Expressions Simply Sentiments stamp set. I stamped it in Jet Black Archival and embossed with clear powder. I cut it out using a circle nestie and edged with the Classic Cobalt Ink. I popped it onto a Scalloped Circle nestie that I cut from Burgundy card.

I added a messy bow made from 3 lengths of Black Vintage Ribbon and popped my sentiment on top. I finished the card by popping a Black Eco Green Glass Glintz in each corner.

I hope you like the card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.

Cameo in Blue

Hi Bloggers,

Here's another card from the show on Tuesday -

I love the way the background turned out on this one plus the image from the stamp set works beautifully as a cameo.

For the background - I swiped some Eco Green Paris Trunk Dye Ink in Fountain Blue over my craft sheet and spritzed some water on it. I then dragged a piece of white card though it. I dried it with a heat gun and then collected from splats of colour from the craft sheet and dried it again. I continued until no ink left. I repeated this process with the Paris Trunk Classic Cobalt Ink Pad.

Next I stamped a sentiment from the Creative Expressions Simply Sentiments stamp set all over the background with the Classic Cobalt Ink Pad. I then spritzed a bit of Cosmic Shimmer Mister in Ocean Sunlight lightly over the whole thing.

I made sure the background was completely dry and then dusted it with my anti static pad. I inked all over the Ivy Background Mask with Perfect Medium.

I popped the background face down onto the inked side of the mask and secured with a little masking tape. I then ran it through the Grand Calibur. The ink transferred in the debossed pattern onto my background. I then dusted over with Golden Malachite from the Cosmic Shimmer Mica Spray Set Garden Tones. I removed any excess powder is a very dry baby wipe.

I stamped the image from the Creative Expressions Art Nouveau Ladies stamp set using Jet Black Archival and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder.

I cut the background away from the lady and went around the edge with a black promarker to hide any white bits. I coloured the lady in with Paris Trunk Dye ink Pads - Black for the hair, Parchment for the skin and Fountain Blue mixed with a little Golden Malachite Mica Powder for the hat. I mounted her onto a mat cut with Spellbinder Labels Twenty and made a faux nestie from gold card.

I assembled the card as shown and added a Blue Eco Green Glass Glintz in each corner.

Hope you like the card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia

To Live on Purpose

Hi Bloggers,

First, I'd like to thank all of you who watched the shows yesterday and took the time to email in - it means so much to me. I'd like to apologise to the ladies who had their names pulled out of the cup of chance for a demo card - there was an incident with a pot of water while I was packing up and I think the cards may have been mixed up and you may not get the sample you're expecting. Really sorry - my fault. Hope you like the card you do get.

Today and over the next week or so, I'm sharing cards from the show. I've just realised that this card uses the same sentiment as the one in yesterday's post - it's a good one, I think.

Here's today's card -

The technique for the sparkly background is on Sue Wilson's DVD - the name of the technique escapes me at the moment, it's a really fun one to do - though you need to get over the fact that it uses quite a bit of mica powder. For my background I used Dark Bronze, Red Bronze and Pale Gold from the Metallics Cosmic Shimmer Mica Spray Set and Golden Pear from the Garden Flora set.

The image is from the Creative Expressions Art Nouveau Ladies Stamp Set. I stamped her with Jet Black Archival and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder. I coloured the hair with Walnut Paris Trunk Dye Ink, the crown with Pale Gold Mica Powder, the jewels in the crown with a mix of Garnet Paris Trunk Dye Ink and Red Bronze Mica powder and the skin I coloured with Parchment Paris Trunk Dye Ink.

The sentiment is from the Creative Expressions Simply Sentiments stamp set - again this has been stamped with Jet Black Archival and embossed with clear powder. I cut the sentiment out with Spellbinders Labels Eight and inked around the edges with Parchment ink while still in the die. I made a faux nestie out of gold card.

I ran some black card through my Grand Calibur with the Creative Expressions Fauna Embossing Folder. I ran it through a second time as the card was bigger than the folder. This is a very busy pattern so it didn't show that it didn't line up for the second run through.

I assembled the card as shown and added some dots made from Cosmic Shimmer Pearlescent PVA in Olympic Gold.

Hope you like the card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.

A Demo Card from Today's Shows

Hi Bloggers.

This is hopefully the first card that I'll be demonstrating today in the 10am show on Create & Craft -

I stamped the image from the Creative Expressions Beautiful Ladies stamp set using Jet Black Archival and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder.

I coloured the image using Eco Green Paris Trunk Dye Ink Pads - Blotter, Parchment, Yellow Damasque, Pink Taffeta and Garnet. I added some Cosmic Shimmer Pearlescent Mica Powder to the Garnet Ink. I mounted the image panel onto some white card which had been inked around the edges with the Pink Taffeta Ink using Cut & Dry Foam.

The sentiment is from the Simply Sentiments stamp set. Again it was stamped using Jet Black Archival and embossed with clear powder. I cut it out using Spellbinders Labels Twenty-Three and inked with the Pink Taffeta while still in the die. I made a faux nestie with some white card that I had inked with the Pink Taffeta.

I ran a piece of white card through my Grand Calibur with the Creative Expressions Floral Embossing Folder. I had to run it through a second time as the card was bigger than the folder. I inked around the edges with the Pink Taffeta.

I ran a second piece of white card through the Floral folder and inked up 8 flowers and cut them out. I used these to make my flowers (tune in to see how).

I cut some leaves out of green card using the Spellbinders Foliage die set and assembled the card as shown.

Do hope you can join me today. My shows are at 10am with Joanne and 6pm with Leonie. I also have a 20 minutes slot on the Dawn Bibby & Friends show at 2pm. It's being presented by Leonie this week as Dawn is away - I believe Dean is going to be there too mixing it up a little I expect!

Hope you enjoy the shows if you get chance to watch.

Thanks for dropping by.

Julia.

Beautiful Lady in Black & White

Hi Bloggers,

Today I'm sharing another sample made for the shows tomorrow. It's a very simple black and white card.

I stamped the lady from the Creative Expressions Beautiful Ladies stamp set using Jet Black Archival and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder. I cut her out.

I stamped the sentiment from the Creative Expressions Simply Sentiments stamp set in the Jet Black Archival and embossed with the clear powder. I mounted it on to black card.

I ran a piece of white card though the Grand Calibur with the Creative Expressions Fauna Embossing Folder. I went over the whole area with Eco Green Paris Trunk Black Dye Ink and Cut & Dry Foam.

I assembled the card as shown and added a few Black Eco Green Glass Glintz.

Hope you can join me tomorrow - details in the left-hand side bar.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.

Art Nouveau Lady

Hi Bloggers,

Today I'm sharing another of the samples that I've made for the shows on Tuesday. I fear it's a bit OTT!

I stamped the lady from the Creative Expressions Art Nouveau Ladies stamp set using Perfect Medium and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Silver Shine Metallic Embossing Powder. I coloured her in using some Eco Green Paris Trunk Dye Ink Pads and a paint brush - Parchment for the skin, Walnut for the hair, Garnet for the hat, Amethyst for the background and Classic Cobalt for the line between the image and the background. I mixed a little Cosmic Shimmer Pearlescent Mica Powder in with the last 3 colours to give a little shimmer. The Pearlescent Mica Powder is a handy thing to have in your craft room. You can add it to any dye based ink or water colour to add a little shimmer.

I cut my lady out and added her to a Fleur de Lys Square cut from black card.

I spritzed some Cosmic Shimmer Misters in Mallow Blush and Lilac Night onto some black card and dried it with my heat tool. I then dusted it with my anti static bag. I put Perfect Medium all over That Special Touch Ivy Background and placed my misted card dusted side down onto the mask and ran it through my Grand Calibur. The Perfect Medium transferred to the debossed pattern on the card. I added some Cosmic Shimmer Silver Shine Metallic Embossing Powder and heated it.

I swiped my anti-static pad over some white card and stamped some small images using Perfect Medium and I embossed them with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder. I then spritzed over the the area with the Mallow Blush and Lilac Night Misters.

I cut one flower out of felt using Spellbinders Spiral Blossoms Two and another flower out of black card using Spellbinders Spiral Blossom One.

I cut some leaves out of black card using the Spellbinders Foliage die set. I inked through the dies with Perfect Medium. Once removed from the dies I dusted each one with either Pink Ultra or Lilac Frost Mica Powders which are from the Garden Tones Cosmic Shimmer Mica Spray Set.

I assembled the card as shown and added some faux pearls made with Cosmic Shimmer Dusky Pink Pearlescent PVA along the outside edges.

Hope you like the card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.

Beautiful Ladies in Grey and Yellow

Hi Bloggers,

I'm back - Today sees the start of posts containing samples that I've made for the shows coming up on Create & Craft (details in side bar).

Here's today's card. I just love grey and yellow together.

I stamped the large stamp of the three ladies from the Creative Expressions Beautiful Ladies stamp set using Eco Green Paris Trunk Dye Ink in Stone. I used a damp paint brush to pull some of the colour out on the ladies hair only. I coloured in the flower and the foliage on the middle lady using Promarkers.

I stamped the sentiment from the Creative Expressions Simply Sentiments stamp set again using the Stone Ink Pad.

I ran some grey card through my Grand Calibur with the Creative Expressions Floral Embossing Folder. I needed to run it through twice as the card is bigger than the folder.

I also ran a piece of yellow card through the Calibur with the Floral folder. I cut out 8 flowers from the embossed yellow card. I used these to make my 2 flowers - I'm planning to demonstrate how to make the flowers in the 10am show.

I cut out some leaves using the Spellbinders Foliage die set and assembled the card as shown.

Hope you like the card.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.

Taking a break

Hi Bloggers,

Just a short post to let you know that I'm taking a blog break so I can work on some samples for the Create & Craft shows on 7th February. I'll be posting samples from the show from 4th February onwards.

For now I'll leave you with a cute photo of Charlie Cat getting into the spirit of Christmas!

See you back here on 4th Feb.

Julia

Other Things May Change Us

Hi Bloggers,

Today I'm sharing this card -

I inked though the Ivy Background Mask with Paris Trunk Peach Satin and Blotter Dye Ink Pads using Cut & Dry Foam. I also spritzed with some Cosmic Shimmer Golden Pear from the Garden Flora Mica Spray set.

I stamped the sentiment from the Creative Expressions Simply Sentiments stamp set using Jet Black Archival and embossed it with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder. I edged it with the Blotter ink.

I cut a frame from Spellbinders Labels Two and popped it over my sentiment using 3d foam.

I made a flower using the Creative Expressions Floral Embossing Folder. I will be showing how to do this in a demo on my next show on Create & Craft. The flowers were coloured with the Peach Satin ink and spritzed with Dark Bronze from the Cosmic Shimmer Metallics Mica Spray set.

I added some green leaves made with the Spellbinders Foliage dies and popped a clear Glass Glintz in each corner.

Hope you like the card.

I'm sharing this with Make It Monday #73.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia

Kraft Cards

Hi Bloggers.

I had a lovely morning yesterday at a card making class at Loobi Crafts in Leighton Buzzard. I go there every month to chill out and be taught. It's a great source of inspiration.

We made 2 cards using Kraft card. This one uses a mix of Tim Holtz (I think) and Creative Expressions Stamps, Barn Door Distress Ink, Jet Black Archival, Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold and Kraft Core card -

This one uses Papermania stamps, Spellbinders Labels One, Distress Inks - Bundled Sage, Spun Sugar and Tumbled Glass, Jet Black Archival, Cosmic Shimmer Ribbon -

Thank you Lisa for a lovely morning.

Julia

Silver Pendant

Hi Bloggers.

Following on from the technique used on the ATC yesterday, today I have this card to share with you -

I added some alcohol ink to some acetate with my Alcohol Ink Applicator Tool (can't remember colours - sorry!). I made sure the whole area was well covered. Next I stamped some swirls from the Creative Expressions Swirl stamp set using Jet Black Archival. This time I removed the ink after stamping. You need to dab it off to begin with so that you don't move the ink to another area. Once most of the ink has been removed then you can rub hard to remove the rest. The acetate background was secured to a piece of white card with 4 small silver brads.

I cut the Spellbinders Kaleidoscope Pendant from some silver mirri card and secured it to my background with a glitterery silver brad. I mounted the while lot onto some more mirri card and then a 6 x 6 card blank.

Hope you've enjoyed your visit and are inspired to give this technique a go.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.

Winter Wonderland

Hi Bloggers,

The theme in December for the ATC swap for the little group I'm in was Winter Wonderland. This was entry -

I applied some Alcohol Ink to some acetate using an Alcohol Ink Applicator Tool - I think I used Pool, Stonewashed and Eggplant. Once the area was covered, I went over it again with the same inks.

I stamped some images and the sentiment from the Creative Expressions Winter Wonderland stamp set using Jet Black Archival.

Once dry, I popped a spot of Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue in each corner of a white ATC and put the acetate piece on top. I glued some blue Eco Green Glass Glintz in each corner.

I'm sharing this with Make It Monday #73.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia

Bottle Tops

Hi Bloggers,

An easy peasy card to share today - and not a stamp in sight!!!

I used some old packing card and passed it through a ribbler. I mounted some really lovely textured black card on top. Next I cut out some squares from some Starbucks coffee holders and popped the Guinness bottle tops on top.

As I said - easy peasy!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.

Blue Steampunk

Hi Bloggers.

Today I'm sharing a card which was a backup demo card for the Vintage Inventor shows but wasn't needed. It seemed a shame not to make it up and share it so here it is -

The layout and techniques for this card are almost the same as for Thingamajig posted earlier this month.

Here's the details for this one - For my main background I ran some white card through the Grand Calibur with the That Special Touch Cogs Mask. I increased the size of the background by running though a second time making sure that the area that was already embossed remained outside of the plates. I then added some Faded Jeans Distress Ink with some Cut & Dry Foam. Using the Faded Jeans Distress Stain I splatted in the centre of some of the cogs.

I inked through the That Special Touch Metal Effect Mask with Faded Jeans Distress Ink onto a piece of white card.

I stamped the Steam Train Drawing from the Vintage Treasures Stamp Set with Jet Black Archival and embossed using Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder. I coloured the background with Faded Jeans Distress Ink. I stamped the coloured the sentiment in the same way.

I assembled the card as shown and added some Creative Expressions Faux Screw Brads in Antique Silver.

Hope you like this variation.

I'm sharing this with Make It Monday #72

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.

Garnet Tag

Hi Bloggers,

Today I have a tag to share with you -

I used a cream tag. I swiped some Eco Green Paris Trunk Dye Ink in Garnet across my Craft Sheet. I spritzed a little water on to it and then dragged my tag through it. I then dried it with my heat tool. I dabbed my tag into the ink to pick up some splats. I did this several times, drying each time. This technique is usually done with Distress Inks but works just as well with the Eco Green Dye Inks.

I then stamped the script from the Creative Expressions Wine stamp set using the Garnet Ink Pad. Next I sprayed on some Cosmic Shimmer Mister in Mallow Blush and dried it.

I ran my anti-static pad over the tag. I inked up one side of the That Special Touch Ivy Background Mask with Perfect Medium. I popped the mask ink side up onto the base plate of my Grand Calibur and put the tag face down onto the mask. I secured it with some repositionable tape. I put my tan embossing mat then the pink embossing plate on top and ran it through the machine. The perfect medium was then transferred to the debossed pattern on my tag. I dusted some Enchanted Gold Mica Powder (from the Garden Tones Cosmic Shimmer Mica Spray Set) over the ivy pattern. The mica powder clings to the Perfect Medium.

I cut a butterfly out of Burgundy card using the Spellbinders Grand Shapabilities Wonderful Wings. I inked with Perfect Medium while still in the dye and also added some ink around the edges of the butterfly once I had removes it from the die. I then dusted with the Enchanted Gold Mica Powder.

I stamped the sentiment using the Garnet Ink and embossed using Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder. I inked around the edges with the Garnet Ink.

I secured the butterfly to the tag by popping some Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue to the body. I mounted the sentiment using 3D foam. I added some Vintage Ribbon in Basque Red to complete the tag.

I'm entering this tag into the following challenges -
Make It Monday #72
Moving Along With The Times - Things With Wings
CES Challenge Blog - Anything But a Card

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia

Peachy Butterflies

Hi Bloggers,

Today I'm sharing this peach toned card with you -

I embossed some white card with the Couture Creations Intrinsic Embossing Folder. I edged it with Eco Green Paris Trunk Peach Satin Dye Ink Pad.

I stamped the sentiment from the Creative Expressions Artsy Floral Stamp set using Jet Black Archival Ink and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Embossing Powder. I cut it out using Spellbinders Labels Twenty and inked with the Peach Satin Ink while still in the die.

The butterflies are cut From DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Girl using the Spellbinders Wonderful Wings Grand Shapabilities dies.

I assembled the card as shown and added a few pearls to the butterflies bodies.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges -
Make It Monday #72
Flutter By Wednesday #186
Moving Along With The Times - Things with Wings
Charisma Cardz - Clean and Simple

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia

Black & Gold

Hi Bloggers,

Today I'm sharing this black & gold card with you.

For the background I inked up the That Special Touch Leaves Mask with Perfect Medium. I dusted a piece of black card with my anti static bag and then placed it dusted side down onto the mask. I ran it through my Grand Caliber to emboss it. The Perfect Medium had transferred to the card when the debossed pattern was. I then added some Cosmic Shimmer Bright Gold Metallic Embossing Powder and heat set it.

I stamped the sentiment from the Creative Expressions Seasonal Flora using Perfect Medium and I embossed it with the CS Bright Gold.

I cut a frame out of matt gold card using Spellbinders Labels Twelve. I also cut some leaves out of the matt gold card using the Spellbinders Foliage dies. I made a black flower using Spellbinders Spiral Blossom One.

I assembled the card as shown and added some Cosmic Shimmer Pearlescent PVA in Olympic Gold.

Hope you like the card.

I'm sharing this card with Make It Monday #72.

Thanks for stopping by.

Julia.