Embellished Ornaments Challenge Card

I’ve been playing with the sketch for the Paper Pals challenge for a few days now. For some reason I decided that I wanted to use vellum and that was quite an added twist. I also decided that I wanted to add in the Global Design Project challenge this week which was inspiration from a card by Brian King. I picked the Christmas theme and cherry cobbler from Brian’s card as inspiration.

Stampin' Up! Embellished Ornaments and Paper Pumpkin November 2015 Mistletoe and Holly

Here’s the sketch – not an easy one for me!

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And Brian’s inspiration card:

I decided that the tag and backing piece were going to be a Christmas ornament with a gold foil embellishment as the tag itself. I stamped the ornament from Embellished Ornaments in cherry cobbler on very vanilla and cut it out along with the gold foil medallionĀ using the delicate ornament thinlits dies. I carefully glued the medallion onto the ornament. That part was easy! As was cutting out the ornament top in more gold foil. Even the bow wasn’t too tricky. I then took a piece of vellum from the winter wonderland designer vellum stack and, after using the embossing buddy to prevent stray pieces of powder, stamped the sentiment in versamark. I seem to be getting a lot of use out of the sentiments in this month’s Paper Pumpkin Mistletoe and Holly kit. I then sprinkled on the cherry embossing powder and, putting the vellum onto a metal lid from a storage tin, heated it. This keeps the paper from curling – I got this tip from Brian King’s site. Wow, almost a year ago now, it’s lucky I remembered that he used a lid from a tin of shortbread. I stuck the completed ornament (minus the bow) onto the vellum.

This was when I ran into trouble. I put tiny tiny blobs of glue onto the back of the vellum using the fine glue tip pen, putting the glue where the gold spots were. Perfect. I have read that glue shows through so I was ultra careful. Except, the glue spread and showed. One ruined card.

But wait, maybe I could save some! I cut out the gold ornamentĀ topper with the dies first and then the rest of the ornament so that I could piece them back together. Then I left them alone for a few days!

Yesterday I made another embossed piece of vellum and tried cutting glue dots small enough to hide them behind the gold spots. Have you ever tried cutting our glue dots into five pieces? I wouldn’t recommend it. I finally had inspiration – mostly, I think, due to the fact that I hadn’t yet trimmed the vellum down from the 6 inch width. I cut another piece of cherry cobbler at 1/4″ smaller than the cardbase and wrapped the vellum around this securing it on the back with fast fuse. I added the pieced together ornament and added the gold bow with a glue dot – well I had to use them somewhere, they had been tossed aside previously. With no glue showing through, I happily glued the piece of cherry cobbler to the cardbase.

 

 

See you tomorrow,

Liz

2 thoughts on “Embellished Ornaments Challenge Card

  1. Brian King

    Liz – Not only is this a great card with lots of shine and shimmer, but I love that you referenced my tip about heat embossing with a metal lid. šŸ™‚ Glad it helped. Your vellum really shines here, and the gold and Cherry Cobbler are great together. Thank you so much for playing along with my “CASE the Designer” Challenge this week at the Global Design Project. I’m so happy you did.

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  2. laurie

    I love the elegant feel of your Christmas card, Liz. I also love that you used vellum, so soft and pretty. Thanks for joining us at The Paper Players!

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