Friday 22 February 2013

Hi Ho Silver!

That's the challenge at CASual Friday's this week - to use silver on your project.   Well I was totally inspired by this awesome card by Clare Buswell - but I don't have her patience for such dedicated glue pen use - so I had an idea to use embossing for a similar effect and here's the results:


I dry embossed a 300 gsm sheet of white cardstock using the rose embossing folder (cart-us) and dusted it with powder tool.  Then I inked up my brayer with versamark and gentle ran the brayer all over the raised area taking care not to press too hard to preserve the white background.  I covered the whole sheet with WOW detail silver embossing powder and heat set it.

I decided to pair it with the new Quilled Elegance stamp set from PTI.  I stamped and embossed one of the stamps from it onto the same heavy card stock and added a sentiment from a Simon Says Stamp set in the gap.   I fussy cut the quill - mounted it onto a white card base and then filled in the quill with silver stickles for a different silver sparkle.  I finished with a few pearls in the rose centres and some corner rounding.

 I think it would make a gorgeous wedding or anniversary card and really like the double embossing technique so I'm going to try it on some other folders and see what happens....  

10 comments:

  1. Lovely card Tara love your embossing folder

    Anne

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  2. WOW! Simply gorgeous, Tara!

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  3. Absolutely stunning! Simple but so, so elegant and I agree it would be perfect for a wedding or anniversary!

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  4. This is drop dead gorgeous. I love your embossing and how you used the silver. I saw it as I was pondering my CAS-ual Friday's card for this week, and was inspired by it in many directions. I hope to post the results of my craftiness by tomorrow, and will give you a giant shout out for all your inspiration.

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  5. This is stunning Tara! How clever with the embossing....awesome! :)
    Lizy xx

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  6. A gorgeous card. The embossing is amazing. I love the design of your card

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  7. This is so beautiful!! Great idea with the embossing.

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  8. ooo I missed this one..... great technique, gives such a luxurious finish almost like brocade ( I think thats what I mean ) gorgeous card :0)
    Jenny x

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  9. Very clever technique, one which I've never quite mastered! Stunning result :)

    Thanks for entering the WOW! Embossing Powder March Challenge and good luck!

    Neil

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  10. Great card - bet it looks even better in real life!

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