More Metal stencil fun

 

Good Morning Ladies, 

I hope that today brings you st least one opportunity to smile.  I know that some of us struggle from day to day and there are definitely days that a smile doesn't even cross our minds, I have been trying to adopt the attitude that we should look for at least one thing to be grateful for, one thing that made me smile etc.  It occured to me after reading the books about the survivors of the Holocaust, if they can find something to be thankful for in a day after the horrendous pain and suffering they endured then maybe I should make the effort, I make a point of thinking of these things when I go to bed, just to see if it will help me sleep!  

On to today's card, I had a few goes at getting this one right, I used my Sweet Poppy Fern stencil, I placed it over a piece of Very Vanilla card on top of the magnetic sheet that Sweet Poppy recommend, I decided to use Versamark ink and different metal embossing powders this time, getting the right amount of ink wasn't easy though, first attempt I didn't press hard enough, the next was too hard and the Versamark bled under the stencil, third time was lucky though, although I did have to replace the stencil a couple of times to add more ink where it hadn't gone through evenly.  I used a mixture of Copper, Silver and gold embossing powders, adding them one at a time and then decanting the excess back into the jar, so as not to cross contaminate the colours, I did end up with a small amount of the three colours mixed after adding extra where needed.  The final background piece wasn't perfect but I will just say that it's part of the design, it's distressed !!!! 

I cut my background down and layered onto copper metallic card then onto Very Vanilla card base, to finish the card I die cut I fern frond in gold mirror card and the other I die cut then added the embossing powder mix that I had after finishing background, then I added extra sprinkles of the three colours of embossing powder and re-heated with heat tool, it was fascinating watching the powder heat up and almost 'shudder' as it absorbed the extra powders, this is a close up of the result....

To finish the card I stamped a sentiment and heat embossed and then die cut and layered sentiment onto the same copper metallic card as card background. I didn't want to add anything else as I wanted the background to shine!!  I hope you like the effect, I really enjoyed sitting and playing with the embossing powders!

Sending Love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra                                                                                                                                                          xxxxxx