metallic wishes

the wonders of embossing powders... especially the metallic ones in gold, silver and copper!

card was made for CAS.ology #94 challenge: Metal

the bird cage die cut is from Cheery Lynn Designs - Bird Cage, whilst the sentiment is from Hero Arts - Good Luck stamp set

I die-cut the bird-cage on two pieces of card stock to give it added thickness. The die-cut was then sponged over with VersaMark, sprinkled with silver and gold embossing powders and heat-embossed. This process was repeated once again for a more pronounced metallic finish.

Similar process used for the 'wishing you the best' sentiment which was popped up using mounting tape.

Card was finished off with a string of pearls attached to the top of the bird cage.

warm thoughts

warm thoughts, a photo by eatzycath on Flickr.

a quick and simple card made based on:

1. Retro Sketches #101 sketch design

2. Paper Players Color Challenge #182 - using the colors of midnight muse, crisp cantaloupe and gold

The card base is blue card stock, over which I layered the light orange 'cantaloupe' polka-dotted pattern paper with the edges die-cut using Paper Smooches Borders 1 die cut.

The sentiment is stamped on blue card stock using Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler stamp set - and embossed in gold - mounted on orange card stock.

Some lace, ribbon and co-ordinating buttons in blue and orange finish the look for this card.