I was fortunate to win a beautiful Hero Arts stamp set called "Forever" last fall. At the time that I won, I had already started making my Christmas cards, so this is the first time I have actually played with it. I decided that I wanted to use a neutral palette of taupes and browns for my card. I chose to create my card base out of Neenah Solar White cardstock. I added a panel of Kaisercraft tone-on-tone patterned paper mounted on a piece of Chocolate Chip Stampin' Up cardstock for the background. I stamped the tag with Memento Luxe pigment ink in Rich Cocoa. I just love the distressed look of this stamp and the pigment ink gives a beautiful opaque finish to the stamped image. I heat embossed the birthday sentiment using Tsukineko white embossing powder. On the first card, I cut the edges of the tag with my paper cutter. On the other two cards, I fussy cut around the tag in an irregular manner to accentuate the uneven, distressed look of the stamped edge. I mounted the tag onto the card base using dimensional tape. When it came time to stamp and emboss the butterflies, I decided to try three different looks using different colours of embossing powder. The first card features dark brown butterflies using Ranger Adirondack Espresso embossing powder.
On the second card I used Tsukineko White embossing powder for the butterflies on Chocolate Chip cardstock.
The third card features butterflies using Ranger Tarnished Gold and Liquid Platinum embossing powders. On all three cards, I fussy cut the butterflies and then mounted the butterflies using dimensional tape.
I still can't decide which version I like the best!
Until next time,
