Wednesday 3 September 2014

CAS(E) this Sketch Challenge # 90

About a month ago I discovered the most incredible vellum and have been waiting for a challenge where I can put it on show. I saw the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch  and thought that this could be the one!!





I kept getting side-tracked by the leaves on the sketch but wanted to take a different approach. It started with the gorgeous vellum and exploded from there:

I so love this vellum but blimey it was hard to photograph, the gold shimmer was almost blinding!! I decided to really 'bling' this card up and just stick with a gold and white colour combo. I cut the corner shape from white cardstock and heat embossed the butterfly in gold. I then popped it up on foam tape for a bit of height.

I wanted a lot of gold for the sentiment as well, so chose this one for the coverage. I'm still in the learning stages of heat embossing (and as I mentioned in my previous post) it kept coming out with lots of stipples. Not sure whats going on there......but I pushed on and popped this up on foam tape as well. A few gold sequins thrown in for good measure and there you have the card that looks like you would send it to 'Goldfinger'!!!

The butterfly stamp is from Couture Creations. The sentiment stamp is from Neat and Tangled 'Across the Card' and the gold sequins are from them also. The gold triangle vellum is from My Minds Eye 'Necessities'.

With all this gold-goodness, I've decided to enter this into the challenge at Addicted to CAS #46 where their theme is:
 
I'm also going to sneak this into the Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge  where their theme is 'Anything Goes'. This will be my fifth and final entry (they will be so sick of me!!!!)

Now off to bed I think, although I'm dying to do the Simon Says Stamp 'Stamptember' blog hop to see everyone use the new release products. Might have to leave that till tomorrow or maybe I could just look at a few.......

Take care
Shona

 

11 comments:

  1. This card breathes luxury, Shona!! I think you did an awesome job with your photography!
    Thanks for the kind remarks on my blog!

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  2. this sure is full od luxury, all the gold just says luxury to me. So pleased you joined us at ATCAS x

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  3. Shona, this is gorgeous...LOVE all the gold.

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  4. The gold definitely shouts luxury :) gorgeous card! Thank you for sharing with ATCAS !

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  5. Love your card! All that gold is beautiful!

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  6. This is full on gold - LOVE! Beautifully crafted as always. I have just put a tip on embossing solid images on your last post but your embossing looks pretty good from here :)

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  7. Wow - what a great card - love the sparkle and the rich gold tones!! Very cool background - all cool elements that came together to make this superb card!!

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  8. Gorgeous and so so elegant! I love all the gold, so beautiful.

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  9. Gorgeous! Fabulous take on the sketch!

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  10. Very luxurious! Thanks for joining in at ATCAS!

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  11. Elegant, striking and yes, so very luxurious, Shona ... to coin a phrase ... Absolutely Fabulous! Anita :)

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