Sending Hugs

Hello and welcome!  Today's card is one that I made for the current Color Hues challenge, where the lovely Cindy has chosen the colors orange and green.  

TCH 51

 

While I was tempted to make a Halloween card because these colors are so perfect for it, but instead used a stamp set that I purchased a short time ago and was eager to get it inky.

I think peonies are my favorite flowers (they sure are in our garden), so I was irresistibly drawn to the Gracious Peonies from Altenew.  I stamped the huge floral on white cardstock then colored in the challenge colors with Copic markers.  When that was complete, the image was die cut.

Next a panel of white cardstock was embossed with a 3D embossing folder then adhered to a white card base.  The peony image was glued directly to the embossed panel, then I lightly splattered it was gold metallic paint.  While that dried, the large sentiment was die cut from brushed gold paper and black cardstock, and the sub-sentiment gold heat embossed on black, then die cut.  After they were adhered to the card, I was done.  Note that the sub-sentiment did not photograph well, especially in the photo below, but in real life it looks fine.  There's something about photographing metallics or shiny things...

Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate it.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Take care!

Stef

All products from Altenew unless otherwise noted.

Stamps:  Gracious Peonies 

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Pitch Black (Hero Arts), Brushed Gold

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Altenew Obsidian Black, Versamark

Other:  Gracious Peonies die, Versatile Greetings dies, Featured Sentiment die, Diamond Stars 3D embossing folder, Antique Gold embossing powder, Metallic Gold paint

Copics:  YR09, 16, Y38, 17, G28, 05, 14