The bg piece is black cs ran through leaf ef then swiped gold acrylic paint on a damp sponge. I did go back and paint some gold paint on some of the raised images. I put the piece back in the ef and layered on the white piece that got the same color treatment. Sentiment strip is plain black cs heat embossed in gold. All is mounted on white cs base. To create the sentiment I cut apart two stamps in the set. One was Happy Birthday and the other was Autumn Wishes. It has been quite liberating to cut into stamps. They can still be used stuck side-by-side but so fun to create my own.
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Love the look! Simply stunning!
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Lovely background! I use stamp surgery at times, but not in a while. Greeting looks great.
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The gold on the black leaves is very elegant. I sometime have trouble performing surgery on my stamps, but sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do and it works perfectly here.
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What a great way to use your stamps and embossing folder. Love the gold accents with the paint.
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Absolutely stunning!! Gold and black is a very elegant look.
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Love! Why didn’t I think of this. The embossing on black with the gold paint is definitely genius and something I need to case.
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A striking contrast to create an elegant background. Thanks for joining us at Use Your Stuff
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OMG! This is simply GORGEOUS my friend! WOW! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Sisterhood of Crafters challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often. We appreciate your support!
Darlene
Sisterhood of Crafters
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
PS … are you aware of the embossing challenge I co-own? Would LOVE for you to share this beautiful inspiring card with us. Here’s the link: Can You Handle the Pressure. Hope to see you there. Once again … GORGEOUS creation!
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Gorgeous! Love your gold on black background panel. It looks like metal!
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Fabulous card! Great technique on the background piece, there’s just something about black and gold paired together! Thanks for joining us at Krafty Chicks Challenge this past week for our Stamp Act theme 🙂 Hope you join us again soon.
Diane – DT
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