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





 

Sympathy Card

hi everyone!

I bought some of the Tim Holtz color vellum and wanted to use it in a card this weekend.  Oh! It is SO lovely!
I chose a pattern with two birds on it.

I have a small xyron (5 inch) so I was able to cut my vellum to A2 size and put it through the machine to cover the back with adhesive. I added this to a white card stock which I then trimmed to size and mounted onto a dark brown card base.  The white card really brought out the colors of the vellum, don't you think?  I'm going to try ivory next to see what I get. Stay tuned!

I added some plum netting ribbon and some blue satin ribbon (I wish I had embossed it. I think the plain ribbon is just a bit too strong).  I made a bow out of pink organza with white dots.

Now, for the pearls.  Do you see those three pearl pins at the bottom?  What a story I have about them!  First they are made by Oasis...and Oasis doesn't make them anymore.  I saw some pictures of these pins on ebay (of course) and thought they would be nice to have for decoration.  So, I ordered some white and lo and behold I was told not only did the seller not have any, the company didn't make them any more. Do you know how you can get caught up in finding an item?....

I went to amazon to see if I could find any. I found a seller who made them (China). And I sent an email asking for a box of this and  a box of that.  Never got a response. So I emailed again - and again no response. NOW I read the amazon ad a little more closely.  Apparently the minimum order is 200 boxes with delivery of 1,000,000 pins per month. ACKKK!!  I laugh now...

Onward and upward!  I finally found a seller who actually had some and ordered.  I continued looking and found some others that had some and got that too (Australia).  So now I have my pins and you'll see more of them.

I think Im in a pin phase.  I've started making some really nice pin decorations with pearls and misc stiff that I have in my stash. I'll be sharing that with you too! So, come back soon!

Thanks for stopping by!

Lis