Saturday 16 June 2007

DCM Dare, Embossing

Well the weather here was awful yesterday & I just didn't dare to be on the internet as we had violent electric storms! Last year someone I work with had their whole computer system blown when lightening struck the telephone wire. It completely fried the insides of the hard drives & they lost everything!!! So I sat & played with my new products & had fun, well once I'd finished work!
Here is my card for this weeks' Friday dare. Use embossing.

The papers were given me by a friend, Cat. So I have no idea who made them, all I know is they are gorgeous. I dry embossed the green background piece with flowers & butterflies using my rather "dusty" from little use, light box! I then cut circles from the same green paper & heat embossed two small flowers, stamped from the See D's tropical collection of stamps using a yellow Pretty Colour pigment ink pad, Lakeland Ltd & Heat it up Silver Pearl powder (my favourite)
The centre circle is a sunflower paper, again from Cat & all I did was use my clear embossing pen & draw roughly around the edges & centre & heat emboss using gold powder. The 3 circles were mounted first onto an offcut piece of acetate that had been alcohol inked for another project using inks, Wild Plum & Meadow. I let a bit of the embossing powder melt onto it beside the circles for a soft look.

I shall carry on playing with my inks for the rest of today as I have no Lewis to sing to me this week! I have rediscovered stamping as I never did very well before. Now the advent of clear blocks & sticky backed stamps has given my interest a new lease of life. I bought some rather expensive clock stamps today for stamping onto vellum & other beautiful things!!

16 comments:

Patsy Jackson said...

Oh this is so soft & pretty looking - very elegant! Love the paper too!

Leigh said...

lovely card Paula, that green paper is so pretty.

Lythan said...

What a delicate looking card Paul - it is gorgeous

Sheila said...

Very pretty card Paula....love it.

Wendy - Anntaurus said...

This is such a pretty card Paula - love it!

Penny said...

This is so pretty and delicate!

All of my Todays said...

I love the colour combination and I agree with everyone else it is very pretty.
x

Dolly Mixtures said...

Very pretty card with great techniques used. Lovely.Angela

Sarah said...

Lovely card Paula, the colours are so pretty.

Anonymous said...

My friends house was struck by lightening on Friday, major damage and nearly all the electrical items have blown, so you did the right thing :0)
I LOVE the colours that you've used here. Beautiful and soft.

Kathy said...

What a lovely card you've shown here, Paula

I really like the greens and yellows and the flower is so pretty

White Butterfly said...

wow! wonderful color combo! I love this card!

Gillian said...

oh this is so pretty Paula, lovely, lovely work, I really love the this combo of colours..

mum-on-the-run said...

Gorgeous card Paula!!

Angelnorth said...

Very pretty Paula - love the little spots of embossing melted onto the acetate strips -looks like dewdrops!

Gillian .... said...

very pretty soft piece, great embossing techniques used :)