Monday, April 20, 2015

Guest Designing for Virginia's View Challenge



Hi!  I'm excited to be guest designing for Virginia Lu's Challenge today.  The challenge this month is layers and dimension, which is right up my alley.

I thought I would pull out some new goodies I haven't had a chance to use for this card.

I'm using Papretrey Ink's Quilted: Spring stamps and dies.  For this card I wanted to put a modern/elegant spin on the quilt.

For the bottom panel, I adhered a piece of chevron vellum to some Grout Gray cardstock and then stitched them together with gold thread before adhering the entire piece to the card base.



The quilt die was cut from both vellum and gold metallic cardstock.  I stamped and embossed the quilt image on the vellum, ran it through my Xyron machine and then adhered it to the gold die cut piece to soften the color.  This was adhered to the card with foam tape.

After stamping/embossing the center negative cut piece with the sentiment, I popped that up on three layers of foam tape and adhered it to the card.  To add one more layer of dimension, the corner negative cuts were adhered just beneath the main die cut image to the card base.



I love the intricate feel from all the layers and the complexity that it adds to a card that looks relatively CAS.  All told, not including the card base, there are six layers on this card.

Thanks to Virginia for inviting me to participate this month!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Cosmo Cricket - Simple Surfaces 12x12 pad; Recollections - Gold cardstock and vellum; MFT - Sweet Tooth and Grout Gray cardstock
Stamps:  PTI - Quilted Spring Stamp Set; WPlus9 - Fresh Cut Florals
Ink:  Versamark
Other:  PTI - Quilted Spring Dies; Stampendous - White Detail Embossing Powder; Xyron - 5" Machine; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; Scotch - Foam Adhesive

19 comments:

  1. Miriam, the embossing looks great! Very elegant card!

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  2. Congrats on the GDT! I love love love this! GORGEOUS!!!!

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  3. absolutely gorgeous and congrats on the guestie!!!!

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  4. This is the most elegant quilt I've seen, Miriam! Love your idea to do it in gold!

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  5. Amazing card. As much details so perfectly matched! And that beautiful golden embroidery details. And amazing colors. True mastery.
    Regards,
    Bozena

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  6. Very elegant quilted square done in gold! Love the mix of patterns and textures you have going on!

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  7. Absolutely gorgeous! So much gold goodness going on in this card! (try and say "gold goodness going three times quickly, ha!)

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  8. The quilt design (and card in general) is so beautiful with the gold, Miriam. Your creativity never ceases to amaze me. :)

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  9. Congrats on designing for Virginia's challenge Miriam!
    Your card is sensational!

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  10. Wow!! This is stunning!! I love all your die cutting and that use of gold-so unexpected but oh so fabulous!!

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  11. You make it look so EASY, Miriam! I love the rich and elegant look! Your use of layers and dimensions really is excellent, Miriam! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

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  12. I love all the gold elements on this card. I mean, GOLD THREAD! Girl you just took it up 5 levels! that's why you are the queen! so awesome.

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  13. What an amazingly stunning job you did as Virginia's Guest Designer!! You rocked it and this card is gloriously beautiful and so well made!! The details of it just make it a stand out card!!!

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  14. This is stunning! I love all the intricate detail and your color scheme - really gorgeous!

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  15. love how you added the gold.. awesome designing..

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  16. All that gold really takes this one up a notch! Love the layers and elegant sheen!

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  17. Wow! Stunning and elegant!! LOVE it!!

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