Thursday, September 8, 2011

Designer's Choice on Dream Scheme Thursday

WOW!   If you followed along with us last week for the Dreamweaver/Woodware UK blog hop, you saw some amazing projects and techniques from the very talented design teams.  So many ideas, so little time!

And in time, the holidays will be here before we know it.   Every year I make elaborate plans, endless lists and time-lines so that, in theory, by early December, the tree will be trimmed, gifts wrapped, cards mailed (my design team sisters know how well that went last year) and I will be able to enjoy the holidays and not do all-nighters trying to get things done.   Hope springs eternal, right?  Well this year is no different, though I do have a head start on the cards.  Here's what I'm talking about.

This newly released stencil (LX7003) is one of my favorites.  For this card, I used the copper metallic embossing paste on ivory Stardream paper.  Layer it with background papers of your choice and you're done.  You could use any of the metallic embossing pastes and change background papers to complement the paste or you could cover the image with gold leaf.

Bonus:  use Lynell's power pasting technique, demonstrated on the Embossing Paste Techniques for Artful Cardmaking DVD,  for even faster pasting.

Happy crafting,
Liz

7 comments:

  1. Oh Liz! Thanks fir the inspiration. The gals at my LSS are nuts for gold leafing! You just inspired my next sample. Ooooo...on dark green velvet paper. Thanks Liz!

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  2. Don't you just ADORE this stencil? I sure do! Even with this elegant, simple presentation, it looks so intricate! Good job.

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  3. Just beautiful! Love that you got a blurb in for the DVD as well!

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  4. perfect! nice simple and elegant! perfect

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  5. You make that stencil look wonderful! Beautiful.

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  6. Quick and beautiful, exactly the combo needed for holiday card making!

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  7. This goes in my file of Easy But Fabulous Cards! It looks wonderful.

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