Saturday, September 21, 2013

STAMPIN' UP! ORNAMENT KEEPSAKES FOR MM #75

Check out the beautiful challenge from Lesley for Merry Monday this week:




My first thought was to use the luscious Champagne Glimmer Paper from Stampin' Up!, but my card went in a completely different direction to my initial plan!  There's LOTS of embossing on this card, which I think gives a rather regal effect. 

I inked up my Beautifully Baroque embossing folder with Gold Encore ink, and ran it through my Big Shot with Very Vanilla card in the folder.  I liked the look of that, but decided I wanted a bit more 'random' coverage, with shimmer ... so I sprinkled gold embossing powder over the embossed card, and heat set it.   You can see the shimmer in this close-up shot:





..... and here's the card in its entirety.  The ornaments, background and sentiment are all heat-embossed; I really went to town with this technique today!


 
Stamps: Ornament Keepsakes, Merry Little Christmas
Card: Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler
Ink: Versamark inkpad, Encore Gold inkpad, Gold Stampin' Dazzle marker
Other: Beautifully Baroque embossing folder, Holiday Ornaments framelits, Chalk Talk framelits, Gold stampin' emboss powder, Early Espresso stampin' emboss powder, Cherry Cobbler stampin' emboss powder, Regals brads, paper snips, Early Espresso stitched grosgrain ribbon, Gold Glimmer brad (dipped in Versamark, and gold-embossed)
 
 
 

10 comments:

  1. Wow! This card is stunning, Christine! Love that embossed background!!!

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  2. Beautiful card Christine, the embossed background is so pretty. Thank you for joining us for Merry Monday this week.

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  3. How beautiful!! Love all the embossing and those fun ornaments! Thanks for playing along with us this week over at Merry Mondays! :)

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  4. Love, love, love your background !
    Mary

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  5. Love the greeting too, and I must say I do prefer last year's ornaments to the new ones.
    Mary

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  6. Lesley's right! WOW! I love all this embossing and the elegance of the whole card!

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  7. Hi Christine, you sure are on a roll with beautiful Christmas cards! I love how elegant this one is with the embossing and your use of the Baroque embossing folder. Just stunning!

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  8. Love the whole look you've created here! A challenge winner!

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  9. Gorgeous Christine. I love all the gold and the embossing. Thanks for sharing with us at Merry Monday this week and Congrats for being featured on Lesley's blog, well deserved.

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