Mystery Pieces Challenge using Gold Foil

 You'd never know it was 9 degrees this morning when I left for work as it's now a scorcher at 27.  Not sure what the humidex is but I do know it has turned out very warm.  

Today's card is yet another mystery piece challenge from teammate Valerie and boy did she have me stumped.  Her pieces were three Poinsettia petals which were cut and embossed in gold foil using the Poisenttia Petals die set as well as a piece of gold foil run through an embossing machine using the Evergreen Forest 3D folder. I knew I needed to do something extra special to compliment the beautiful embossed details in the pieces.  I needed them to pop out and knew it had to be something dark to achieve the look I wanted.  After a quick scan of Pinterest for inspiration, I found exactly what I needed.  Take a look here: 


Supply List:

Cardstock: Early Expresso-cut at 5 ½”x 8 ½” scored at 4 ¼”; 4”x5 ¼”;scrap for sentiment

Basic White-cut at 4”x5 ¼”

Gold Foil-2 ¼”x5 ¼”; scraps for poinsettias

Ink: Versamark

Stamp Sets: Holly Jolly Wishes; Snow Wonder

Dies: Poinsettia; Snow Time

Embossing Folder: Evergreen Forest

Stampin’ Emboss Powders: Metallics

Heat Tool

Stampin Cut & Emboss Machine

Paper Trimmer

Adhesives: Mini Glue Dots; Stampin Seal; Stampin Dimensionals

Step- By- Step Instructions:

 

Stamping: Stamp your greeting using Versamark on the scrap of Early Expresso, sprinkle with the Gold embossing powder and be sure to tap off any excess or stray powder particles.  Do this before you apply the heat from the heat tool to it, once it is set you can’t scrape it off.

I also like to finish the inside of my cards so I then stamped a verse for the inside also using Versamark , Gold embossing powder and then heat set it.

Die cut the sentiment piece using the Snow Time Dies and the Poinsettias using the Poinsettia Dies.  Now you can emboss the trees onto the Gold Foil using the Evergreen Tree folder.

Now let’s assemble our card:  Layer your embossed gold foiled trees to the Early Expresso matte using stampin seal.  I put mine slightly off center and to the left.  Then add those two pieces to your card front.  I used dimensionals to pop up my greeting, then used glue dots to stick my Poinsettia flowers onto my sentiment and also card front. 

Adhere your Basic White piece to the inside of the card.

This really is a stunning project, am so happy I received these pieces but now I think I am going to need to do a little retail therapy and purchase them so I can reproduce this card.  Maybe even use a different colour cardbase next time.

Thanks for stopping by,

Mary Louise


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