Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Papertrey Ink June Blog Hop Challenge

Hello friends.  Posting a little later than usual as we had college orientation today for my youngest...gosh I feel old!  And probably a good thing I'm better at stamping than school...chemistry, biology, medical terminology, psychology - yea, I definitely think I'll stick with stamping! :0) 

The challenge this month at Papertrey Ink was to use a touch of gold in your card.  I kept mine very simple but am very pleased with the way it came out!  Take a look:


I started with a white card base, then added another white layer that I embossed with a SU! ef and then sponged very lightly with SU!'s Going Grey ink.  I loved Papertrey's challenge last week so much with the colored vellum flowers, that I used that idea again and embossed my flower image (Gina K - Year of Flowers) first with white embossing powder, and then again using the rock n roll technique with gold embossing powder just on the edges of the flowers.  I used SU!'s Regal Rose & Primrose Petals inks on the backside of the flowers with a q-tip to add some color.  I finished off the card using PTI's "Boutique Borders: Thanks" stamp set (Dawn McVey) for my sentiment and embossed on either side of the sentiment with the little flourish in gold also.  It came together very quickly once I had the idea, and I love how elegant it looks!

Make sure you check out all the other entries for this challenge...some absolutely beautiful cards! (http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/) Thanks for stopping by...I love it when you do! :0) 

3 comments:

Kathy said...

Love this beautiful card!

Lindsey said...

You have every reason to be pleased! This card is beautiful. I'm so impressed with all the techniques you used on it.

Heather P. said...

Very pretty!