Foiled Rose

 International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over an join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #92
Tic Tac Toe

This fortnights challenge 'Tic Tac Toe' has been chosen by me.  I have always loved a Tic Tac Toe challenge, just enough to help focus the designing but lots of freedom too.  For this card I chose the right hand column - embossing, a stencil and blue.  

I heat foiled the sentiment and the rose which I always class as a form of embossing as an die is used and the text, once foiled, has the feel of debossing.  It is a bit of a shame as the scanning of the image is not showing the metallic effect of the foiling, hope you can imagine the shine though. Next I created the background by first blending in a pretty blue shade of Distress Ink followed by stencilling again with Distress Inks and using a Sheena Douglas stencil and a bit of stamping to give a distressed feel.  For the layering I grabbed a Promaker and quickly went around the edge of a white square I die cut with the darker blue and finally these two layers were placed on the card base which I had back with another blue. 


I am entering this card in the following challenges : =

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