Hello again. I’ve got a second card here to share with you, this time a variation on a demo from this afternoon’s 2pm Clarity Social TV and inspired by our new recipe challenge at As You See It, together with the ’embossing’ theme at Make My Monday and the new palette of white & gold metallic plus one other colour from Color Dare.

I’ve used Clarity’s petal flower cut card kit, with these lovely die cut blanks and matching stamps. My first step was to take one of the large card blanks, stamp the flower image onto it with Versamark clear ink and then heat embossing it with WOW’s gold powder. I then switched to the solid petal infill stamp and added ‘peacock feathers’ Distress Oxide to each of the petals in turn. Top tip – once you’ve finished inking, blot the image with a piece of kitchen towel, to lift any ink residue off the heat embossing and prevent smudges…!

Next, I took two of the small die cut toppers and again stamped the co-ordinating image onto them before heat embossing in gold. This time, rather than fill in the whole petal, I opted to just use the ‘peacock feathers’ on the small centre stamp.

I was then on to assembly. I cut a piece of a lovely gold shimmery card I’ve had for ages and glued it onto the base of the petal card blank, before adding one of the white all occasions rub on sentiments. I could then glue the die cut toppers onto either side of the base before finishing with a shimmery gold dot in the centre of the large flower.

So, to check through our recipe at As You See It – I’ve gone gold & white on the card (hopefully you think it’s elegant…), obviously heat embossing, a rhinestone in the centre of the flower, die cut card toppers (that may be cheating a little bit!) and finally the gold shimmer card across the base. Job done!

And here’s a look at the actual card I demo’d this afternoon – it’s the same design, but without the heat embossing and using the colours from Color Throwdown. I went with ‘watering can’ Archival ink, ‘picked raspberry’ & ‘mustard seed’ Distress Inks and a piece of Waimea Falls companion paper.