Tuesday, January 29

Golden Heart

This weeks challenge on Papertake is 'Heart's Desire!'....




Please could we see some hearts (or a heart lol!) on your cards this week? Already done your Valentine's cards? How about doing a Wedding / Anniversary / engagement or birthday card! We don't mind which - as long as there's a heart or two...or three.....!!!




I needed to make a Golden Wedding Anniversary card. I used the sketch from Nicola's blog - sketch # 2.


The heart I die cut from thin grey board (sometimes I use cereal box) and inked with encore pad (I find they stay moist much better!) Then I triple embossed with a mixture of gold ep and Utee. When the last layer was still molten and melty I pressed my stamp into it (which I had inked with my versamark) let it cool and peeled away.

I always love the effect you get with this technique.

I used my Cherish alphabet dies to create the 50 and layered with gold mirri. The flourish is fancy pants pollen dust, heat embossed with gold ep and I put the sentiment on to flow with the design. I then adhered some red heart stones to contrast.
The Embossed heart is on some very special material I found while rummaging in sale items in local craft shop. It's an embossing metal mesh sheet. I die cut it with my nesabilities, it has a few stray sharp bits but I was surprised how well it came out. The papers are DCWV luxury pack.
Thanks for stopping by... HuGs :) x

16 comments:

My Paper World said...

Wow Kim! It's absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
very elegant and that heart looks AMAZING!
Thanks so much for doing my sketch!
Nicola xx

Pink Blossom Creations said...

lovely card... great colours

caroline x

Sandy said...

Wow this is really elegant. Fabulous work. Love it.

Dawn Wheeler said...

Stunning card love it ,Dawnx

Sharon said...

Beautiful really stylish and classy looking. Lovely

Andrea, said...

Beautiful card, the heart is gorgeous

Deb said...

Beautiful Kim, Love the papers, the flourish and most of all that fabulous heart!

Katharina Frei said...

Wow, a marvelous work!!! I love it!

Annie said...

Your card is absolutely stunning! so many details and love all the sparkle.

Marlou McAlees said...

Kim, this is really beautiful!!! love how you photograph your cards, very professional :) x

Mrs Mayne said...

Gogeous! Love your golden hearts and swirls! Thanks for joining us for the challenge again! x

Unknown said...

The Gold heart looks divine - Lovely card

Jilli said...

Absolutely beautiful!

Monika said...

wow great card !!!!!

Jo said...

Absolutely beautiful!

tracie said...

This is gorgeous card, I love the gold heart is fab. :-)

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