Wednesday 11 February 2009

Better Late Than Never

As the challenge this week on My Time To Craft is "Going for Gold" I decided that I really should take that as a sign that I needed to finish a card I had started making in January, it was originally meant to be for "Plum and Gold" for the challenge on the Graphicus Team Blog, but as I have mentioned January was a bit of a nightmare. Anyhow here is my "Going for Gold" (with Plum) card.

The stamp is by Elusive Images and can be found on the Harlequin Rose Themeplate. It was stamped and embossed with Gold EP onto black card first. I then bleached out the card where I wanted to paint the rose and used Twinkling H2Os to paint the flower and leaves. This was matted onto some plum colour Bazzil card and then onto gold mirror card.

The main card is black card which I have partly covered with paper printed from the Artylicious Damask Delights CD. A narrow gold peel off border was added to the edge where the paper joins the card. Finally this was spritzed with Silver Bells Glimmer Mists to give both the printed paper and the blank card a lovely shimmer.

12 comments:

  1. Beautiful Phree. Isn't that themeplate fab? Bet you can't wait for your new one to arrive. Glad you're back blogging which means you must be feeling a whole lot better.

    Lesley Xx

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  2. Beautiful card Phree, thanks for taking part in the MTTC challenge xx

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  3. Wow Phree...I enlarged your pic and your stamping is immaculate ! What a breath-taking piece this is....now I know what "awesome " means ! x

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  4. Glorious card Phree, hope your mojo's back and you're over the horrid dental problems (and bills!)

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  5. Lovely card, I haven't finished mine yet! Congrats on winning the stamps (I am sooo jealous).

    Cazzy x

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  6. How very very elegant! I love how your embossing turned out and the DP you chose is just beautiful with your lovely rose!

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  7. Stunning card Phree! Love this stamp and you used it to great effect!
    Hoping i might have this stamp soon.
    Anesha

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  8. Love it exponentially ! Lilac-purple are my favourite colours. Gorge X Fab

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  9. Everything about this is Gorgeous Phree and the final spritzing with Glimmer Mists is a brilliant touch.
    Beryl xx

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  10. Hi

    STUNNING

    Love the colours
    TC

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  11. Oh wow Phree these card are so yummy..... can't wait until next month so I can get mine.

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  12. Absolutely gorgeous and what fantastic embossing. -x-

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