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Thursday 14 August 2008

Arty Girlz

The challenge set this week over at Arty Girlz was to create a project using no bought patterned paper. Here we go off to play & see how we can create our own. Well I fell back on an old favourite of mine but used different materials to highlight the design.
Started with a gold card base, then took some wine coloured paper & ran it through my big shot with a cuttlebug embossing die, then cut into three sections. Then using my sakura glue pen ran over the embossed design & once sticky highlighted this with metal leaf. Attached to the card using double sided tape.
Took a strip of gold card & ran that through the big shot with the same cuttlebug die & highlighted the design with stickles.
Now took another strip of the wine paper & created 2 paper beads to which I threaded through some gold thread, attached to the back of the gold strip using double sided tape & attached another strip of gold to keep it tidy & mounted onto the base card using foam pads.
To finish off attached a gem to the centre of the flower at the top right hand corner.
Hope you're all having a happy day crafting :-)

14 comments:

Julie Allain said...

Beautiful card

I love the embossed effect

Thanks for joining in with this weeks Arty Girlz challenge

Julie xx

Christine (All She Crafts) said...

Wow!! This is amazing, Lorraine! I love what you've done.

Chris xx

Sandy said...

Wow this is really elegant.
Gorgeous card. Love them.

ohradiogirl said...

I love a crafty challenge. Nice looking card. Thanks for the details. And thanks for stopping by my blog.

RubyMay said...

Hi Lorraine...I am back again to look at your beautiful blog. Another lovely idea from you...and it looks stunning !

Kath Stewart said...

fabulous card and what a great technique...love the colour combo
Kath
xxxx

Chris said...

Hi Lorraine and such a beautiful card you made today! Thanks for explaining how you did it all. I love the effect of the gold leaf and the paper beads are wonderful! Great techniques and a really stunning result. Chris x

Rosanne said...

very pretty!

NANCY LEFKO said...

VERY attractive....

Cass said...

Fabulous card.Lovely rich colour scheme.

Cass xxx

Crissi Harvey said...

awwwwwwwww pretty love the embossing, the colours and the beads realy set it off.

Thanks for joining in with the Arty Girlz challenge.

crissi xx

Anonymous said...

Your card is `Beautiful` Lorraine...TFS!!!:)x

Dawn said...

Whew - stunning card!
Love the colours

Erum Tasneem said...

I was wondering WHAT IS THIS! And then I read the post. Wow! You did a fab job!