Welcome back to Super Saturday. Today I have a card that is very quick and easy.
I pulled a piece of background paper from my stash. This particular piece was made using shaving cream and Nuance. You can see my post on how to make the paper here. I selected this piece because I liked the swirl design and I thought it would work well with the Dandelion Trio stamp. I cut the background paper to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and adhered it to the front of an A2 card. You can certainly use any paper, or scrapbook paper; just experiment by holding your vellum over the background paper to see which one you like the best.
I cut a piece of medium weight vellum to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and
liberally used my powder tool over the entire surface then placed it in my stamping
positioner. The Dandelion Trio stamp is
a two-piece set and I positioned the piece with two dandelions on the left side
of the vellum. I positioned the
sentiment on the right side of the vellum and stamped both images at the same
time with VersaMark ink. I embossed with
gold embossing powder. When embossing on
vellum it is important to pre-heat your embossing tool and to keep it moving over
the surface of the paper to prevent the vellum from warping or melting until
the powder melts.
I applied VersaMark ink around all four sides of the stamped
image and then embossed with more gold embossing powder. You can do this step multiple times until you
have the amount of gold around the edges that you like.
On the back of the vellum, I applied small drops of glue
under the gold and under parts of the stamped image. By putting the glue under the gold embossing
powder, it won’t show through to the front of the vellum. I adhered the vellum to the front of the card
and then put a book on top of the card to weigh down the vellum until the glue
dried. For the final step I added a few
gold gems.
2 comments:
A very striking card. LOVE that gold embossing on top of the fab background.
Hugs, Sarn x
Thank you!
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