A blog devoted to the cards I make in my tiny upstairs space. When my sister stays there, she calls it an "artist's garret". I'm not an artist, but am an enthusiastic cardmaker - hence the title "Cardmaker's Garret".
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Thursday, 5 November 2015

Gilded Ornaments

I love it when a bunch of challenges all come up at the same time and work out for one card!!



First up is Happy Little Stampers November CAS challenge "Gilding".  I used gold gilding flakes on the ornaments.  And kept the card CAS by putting them directly on the cardbase with no extra layers.

Then there Merry Monday's "Red and Gold" challenge.  I decided to use a red cardbase to go with my gold ornaments and sentiment.

And finally SCS's Ways to Use It challenge "Gold Mediums".  The gilding flakes are my gold medium.

I find gilding flakes really tricky to use most of the time, but they are easy on a die cut with a layer of double-sided tape on it - still make a mess though and fly around everywhere!

I put sookwang tape over some scrap white cs and die cut the three ornaments. I removed the top layer of the tape and rubbed gold gilding flakes into the tape. I popped them up on foam tape, added gold cord to hang them with, and die cut a gold sentiment.

Thanks for looking and come and join us at some of these challenges!






Supplies:
Paper: white, gold, and red shimmer cs
Paper Size: A2
Accessories: Cosmic Shimmer gilding flakes, gold cord, Memory Box sentiment die, Spellbinders ornament dies, foam tape, sookwang tape

9 comments:

  1. So beautiful!! Thanks for sharing at HLS CAS. xx

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  2. Stunning card...all that gold on the red is really striking! Thank you for sharing it at Merry Monday!!

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  3. Those ornaments are spectacular! Lovely card.

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  4. Wow this is an incredible card and the gilding is great.

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  5. These ornaments look like treasured antiques, Susan! What a wonderful job of gilding! Thanks so much for sharing this with us at Merry Monday and Happy Little Stampers!

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  6. I love the ornaments - they look like beautiful antiques :)

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  7. Gorgeous ornaments!!!!!! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Merry Monday.

    Deanne :)

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  8. Beautiful ornaments! Thank you for sharing with us at Happy Little Stampers!

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  9. Beautiful gilded ornaments. Thanks for playing along with the HLS challenge xx

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