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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Thank You in Copper and Gold

Hi everyone! Thanks for being patient with me while I get my act together!  Today's card is a flower cluster using paper, fabric and felt. And I have lots of close ups!

 
 
I started out with some of Tim Holtz vellum. This is the background that you see.  It has skeleton leaves as part of the pattern.  I adhered the vellum to an ivory card base.  I outlined my card in gold and then spattered more gold onto the card.  (It was so pretty I hated to cover it up.  I thought it would make a good note card too.)


Since the vellum and card base were more of an ivory/brown color, I chose the same from Prima flowers, and some paper flowers that I got from Wild Orchid Crafts.  The pearl in the middle of the orange fabric flower was white. I took some Tarnished Brass Distress Ink and colored it, added some heat from my heat gun to dry it. (I just rolled the tip over the pearl.  I probably should have gone back in with a q-tip or brush to do the edges but I liked it as is.)


I wanted a frame for my flowers and decided on copper foiled paper.  I used a Frantic Stamper die to cut out the frame.  Then I used an xacto blade to cut out the middle so I ended up with an evacuated frame.  I used the middle to create my sentiment flag.

I took this close up so that you could see the green leaf I added at the top of my card.  It has sparkle in it and has the look of vinyl or plastic.  I added it because this area of the vellum had no design and I wanted to add a dash of green.

Finally I added two pearl pins.  I added a small brass key to one.
 
I used interference Violet embossing powder to emboss my sentiment onto the copper. (I was trying to find my white but couldn't <sigh>). I wish they made ivory embossing powder.

There is one last thing I wanted you to note.  Did you see the tree crystals that I added between the copper flower and the leaves?  I was wandering through ebay one night and found ts place that sold wedding scatters -these are plastic crystals (fully faceted so not flat back) and they sold packs of 6.5/4.5mm.  I think those were the sizes. Anyway, I bought a few of the colors to experiment with.  The picture doesn't really show the sparkle.  Its not like crystal so it doesn't sparkle a LOT but it gives a nice twinkle.  I glued them on with some Aleenes thick glue.


So, that's my card for today!  I hope you enjoy it!
Lis





 

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Lis, I love your card! Beautiful!