Silver Embossing on Brushed gold

I needed a break from making swaps for next weekend in Telford (A stamping up event where there will be approx 400 demonstrators attending - I am hoping to make 150 swaps tops!)

I decided that I would have a play at heat embossing in silver on brushed gold cardstock, then colouring in.  Here is the result!

This was really just a practice piece to see what the effects of the different colours would be,

but I was pleased with the results, so decided to make it into a card.

Stamp sets used are Secret Garden and Curly Cute.

Maggie's Birthday

Tomorrow is my sister Maggie's birthday, so I wanted to make her something a little bit special.

The colour combo is Regal Rose, Sahara Sand and White.

Once again I have used the Secret Garden stamp set and the white re-inker technique

to produce these flowers,and I used Real red with the aqua brush this time, 

to create this beautiful pink colour.

There is a little rosebud stamped in white from the Collage Curios stamp set.

The Initial frame is die cut using the Window Frames Collection Framelits.

I bought the initial M some time ago in anticipation of Maggie's Birthday,

but cannot remember where from.

Sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes, stamped and then punched with Word Window punch'

then layered on top of a punched Modern label.

Embellishments Basic Rhinestones.

(All products Stampin' Up! unless otherwise stated.)

Happy Birthday Maggie!!

Secret Garden

Went to Training Morning yesterday with Chris (sis-in-law) and had a great time.

Did some lovely projects, but we were inspired to come home and try out a different technique.

This card is made by stamping the flowers from the Secret Garden stamp set

in Versamark ink and then heat embossing with White embossing Powder. 

The flowers are then coloured in using  Whisper White ink (using a Re-inker)

with an Aqua painter.  This is then allowed to dry naturally, or if you are in a hurry

it can be dried using a heat gun.

The flowers are then coloured in with the colour of your choice - above you see Midnight Muse - it produces a beautiful shaded effect with not too much trouble.

The card stock I used was Sahara Sand (which I picked up by mistake, thinking it was Crumb Cake) -

a happy accident as I think it matches perfectly.  The sentiment is from Curly Cute stamp set,

stamped onto on an Apothecary Accents Framelit die cut.

I used a length of Crochet Trim and a couplke of Basic Pearls as simple embellishments

 as I thought that was all that was needed.

You can see the card that inspired us HERE on Julie's Blog.

Thanks Julie - love this card!!

P.S.  I have just realised that today is my 1000th Blogaversary-
 I have done 1000 posts on my blog today.
 To celebrate this event, for anyone who puts a comment on this post,
 I will put everyone's name into a hat and I will send this card to the person
whose name is drawn out on Saturday.

Get well Margaret!

Have had telephone calls from 2 dear friends today that warranted me making get well soon cards.

The first one is for my dear friend Jackie's sister Margaret.

The second one is for one of my monthly workshop ladies - Chris (M)

So I have been busy today playing, sorry working, on two get well cards

and I have just put them in the post box so they should both get them tomorrow.

here's the one for Margaret.

The colour combo is Daffodil Delight (I find yellow a bright cheerful colour)

Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive on a base card of Ivory.

I used two of the ovals from the Framelits - Oval Collection to make the

narrow matt gold oval frame.

I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to position the two sentiments from Petite Pairs.

Using the new Secret Garden stamp set, I heat embossed in gold EP the three yellow flowers,

 then embossed another image of the centre flower on Pumpkin Pie card.

I die cut the three yellow flowers using the matching Secret Garden Framelits dies.

I then hand cut the centre of the Pumpkin Pie flower and stuck it in the middle.

The leaves were die cut using the same Frame;its set and I used an embossing tool to

mark the veins on the individual leaves. (Don't know if you can see this)

To finish off I applied some Champagne Glass Stamping Glitter in the centre of the flowers.

And that's it - hopefully it will cheer Margaret up to receive a card.
I will post Chris's card tomorrow so do pop back.