I love gold for holiday & fall cards! I used a brushed gold paper on the centers & leaves & gold heat embossing for the greeting.This is also for Kerry's HYCCT1514 challenge...mosaics.THIS was my inspiration & the lacy poinsettia dies are coincidentally named "Merry Mosaics".
After die cutting all the different poinsettia parts & assembling them, they were attached to a dot embossed white bg. I used an embossing frame to leave the oval around the the greeting flat & just emboss the rest. I've done this w/ self made cardboard frames & it works perfectly, but this was handy & the right size
I used a lot of masking to stamp the All is Calm greeting. I inked the first line only, wiped off the A & replaced it w/ the Flourished Alphabet letter A. I did the same to the second line using the flourished B. I find it easiest when stamping only 1 line, to ink the line, wipe off the ink of the parts I don't want to stamp, then cover the wiped off letter & second line w/ a piece of scotch tape because no matter how well I think I remove the ink, some always remains. This just makes sure it doesn't ruin my project. The words were all gold embossed (one at a time, as they were stamped).
Thanks so much for looking! Closeups & the inside are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2015 GMT Views: 1699
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Registered: October 12, 2007 Location: Arizona Posts: 70675
Thu, Nov 05, 2015 @ 7:46 AM
Gorgeous!! Love the gold and white. The layered die-cut snowflakes are beautiful. The gold embossed sentiment is fabulous. Amazing card. Thank you for participating in HYCCT with this beauty.
Registered: December 16, 2009 Location: Coralville, IA Posts: 568
Thu, Nov 05, 2015 @ 8:15 AM
This is a very lovely card! The poinsettias are gorgeous - I love the gold leaves. I really like how you framed your card with the beautiful background you arranged.
Registered: July 9, 2008 Location: Stars Fell on Alabama Posts: 75006
Thu, Nov 05, 2015 @ 9:45 AM
Julie, your card is amazing. I love the beautiful poinsettia. The time you took to do that sentiment was well worth it...perfect.
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