Best Wishes

This is my submission for The Card Concept #96  and CAS-ual Friday's Challenge #203.  

  

For The Card Concept, my goal was classy/elegant with the focus on the main elements of flowers, gold and the wood.  The CAS-ual Friday's challenge was to use heat embossing.  

The main card base is covered in a designer paper that has a pale wood grain design that manages to incorporate hearts into the "grain".  (picture at bottom of post)

The flower die is by Poppy Stamps, and was cut 6 times.  Five layers were glued together then attached to a base of Neenah solar white cut to the same size square as the die.  I then used Copic's to color the flowers and background.  The coloring had to include the base as well as the sides of the five layers so that there would not be any white edges showing when looking at the card from all angles.

The top die was then heat embossed with several layers of WOW Metallic Gold Rich Super Fine powder (my favorite) then carefully glued down to the other dies.  Once everything was dry, the

four outer edges of the completed center piece, were also heat embossed with the gold so that no white edges appear anywhere on the card.

Lastly, the sentiment is from Mama Elephant set Bountiful Blessings and also embossed with the WOW gold.  The final touch was to add bitty green beads to the centers of the flowers.    

I honestly can't remember the last time I put this much time and effort into a card.  I am very pleased with how it turned out, but of course after taking the pictures and working up this post, I think I might go back and add just a few gold sequins to finish it off.  

Thank you for stopping by,  

Carole