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:

  1. Beautiful card

    I love the embossed effect

    Thanks for joining in with this weeks Arty Girlz challenge

    Julie xx

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

    Chris xx

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

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

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

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

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  7. 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

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  8. Fabulous card.Lovely rich colour scheme.

    Cass xxx

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  9. 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

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

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  11. Whew - stunning card!
    Love the colours

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

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