Metal Heart

It's Saturday, which means, a new challenge on my favourite blog on the block, Less is More, and this week the colour challenge is metalic.  I love metalics and use them a lot, possibly too much, but not usually in a CAS way.

I was very inspired by Chrissie's first inspiration card with the triple embossing - deep embossing is a technique I've been meaning to try but have always been a little scared by - so I decided to take the bull by the horns and give it a go - this is the resulting card.

I die cut a piece of soft metal sheet with a Marianne D swirl - I ran it through my machine several times but it wouldn't cut through fully so I ran round the outline with a craft knife to loosen it from the sheet.  The heart is a wooden shape which I coated in UTEE, 2 coats of silver ep, and then I added a touch of copper ep to the edges.  I stamped a lace stamp across the middle to add texture but found it left it a little dull, so I used a silver rubbing cream over the lace to bring back the shine.  Simply mounted onto black glitter paper with a silver matt onto a black base - I love black and metalics.

I'm really glad I tried this technique - its not nearly as scary as I thought it was!

I'll be doing the rounds to see what else everyone has come up with this evening.

Craftilicious x