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Hi crafters!   A black and gold card today, which, to me,  is a combination that always has an elegance to it.  I know I am probably in the minority where black on cards is concerned, but I do love it.  Rather than thinking of it as a dark colour, see it as a way to make your colours pop a bit more.  Mica's and gilding flakes look smashing against a black backdrop especially, you shouldn't discount it from your crafting arsenal!  I started this card by using the Tied Together embossing folder to emboss my soft gold card.  I wanted a larger background so I extended the pattern to cover the area, easily done since the pattern repeats.  I used some black satin ribbon and ran a piece vertically around my card and taped the ends to the back.  I tied a double bow and added it at the bottom with sticky glue dots (I should have used one under that lopsided loop!)  I added a black crystal sparkler to the centre and made some pretty stick pins to match.  For the focal element, I stamped the Hydrangea label shape using a clear Perfect Medium pad onto black card.  I heat embossed it with gold detail powder and cut it out with the matching Vintage Labels Seven die by Justrite.  I stamped it a second time, embossed it as well and hand cut just the centre part of the label.  Using some purple and yellow mica powders, I made a paint by adding a small amount of water and painted the flowers.  I added the piece with a bit of foam mounting tape to the centre of the larger label shape and added both pieces to my card with another piece of foam.  I stamped the butterfly from the set twice on soft gold card and gold embossed it.  I cut them both out by hand and added them to the label, leaving the wings free for movement.  Finally, I added small 3mm black pearls to all the intersections on the embossed background and matted the piece with a thin black mat.  A double pierced gold mat was all that was needed to finish this one off nicely. The finished dimensions are 6 1/2" x 7 1/2" in size.

Now for the winner of this week's Wednesday card giveaway!  The winner is:

Myra P!!!

Please email me to confirm your address and claim your card prize.  Don't forget to check back tomorrow to see if you are among the winners for the week's comment game.  There are loads of winners again this week!  All for now, Sue x

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