Thursday, January 20, 2011

Thursday Dream Schemes--Another Free Week

This week's challenge started for me with this beautiful Creative Imaginations paper. I really liked it, but thought that it would be difficult to use. The silver foiled patterns reminded me of old fashioned Valentine cards and luxe materials. I was considering which materials would be simple and elegant--and an idea was born--velvet paper and metal!

Although I was concerned that the Dreamweaver paste might not work well on the velvet material, I discovered that I was very wrong. The silver paste worked like a dream! I used the Dreamweaver stencil LM 241, which reads "Happy Valentine's Day." I masked out the additional letters with Scotch removable tape and pasted as usual.

The metal is a Quickutz (Lifestyle Crafts) product. I used it in the Revolution machine with Dreamweaver stencil LM 272, Dangling Heart. It was very easy. I put the stencil down, followed by the metal (face down), a rubber embossing mat and the blue plastic embossing mat. The metal is adhesive backed, so once it was embossed, assembly was a breeze.

12 comments:

  1. I have been using that stencil so much Laura. You did a fantastic job with it. I am teaching a class on Feb 5th using that stencils. I may have to drag along the craft metal to show the gals. Thanks for the inspiration!! You did a marvelous job!! Can't wait to meet you next week!

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  2. Oooohhh, absolutely GORGEOUS!! WOW!!

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  3. Great card girlie!!! Can't wait to see you in person..in like a week!!!!!

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  4. WOW! This card is gorgeous! The papers and the silver metal & paste are breathtaking! I have to find some of that background paper.

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  5. Ooohh, I never thought of using just the Valentine word off that stencil and the metal goes so well with the background color too. Lovely!

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  6. veru nice...love the colors and the well..everything

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  7. Fantastic! Love your color combination. And metal is one of my favorite things. Used to teach it in our local store that closed. Very elegant.

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  8. Soooo pretty. I love embossed metal and that background paper is gorgeous!

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  9. I made quite a few Christmas cards with embossing paste, glitter and velvet paper. So pretty!!! Love the embossed metal.

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  10. This is so beautiful...its just awesome!

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