Wednesday Weekly Card Giveaway

 Hello bloggers!  This one may be too dark for some of you, but believe me when I say it is so pretty in real life!  It is a very simple design just to show off the Cascading Fern background by Justrite as it is just lush!  I stamped it on to black card using some flake and glitter glue.  I cleaned my stamp well directly afterwards and let the glue set up until it got tacky (just a few minutes is needed).  I covered it with Calypso Gilding Flakes and used a piece of Rubit Scrubit pad to move the flakes around, then refined them by lightly rubbing in a circular motion.  I just love the bits of rust and teal and copper that are in this mix of gilding flakes, they are so pretty!  Once completely refined, I dusted away any excess flake and covered it the entire piece with a sticky adhesive sheet.  I peeled off the backing paper and covered it with Iced Snow.  This is my Fire and Ice Technique and if you haven't tried it, what are you waiting for! The results are divine!  I matted it with a thin white mat.  Using a piece of 1 1/2" wide rust satin ribbon about 18 inches long, I cut it down the entire length down the centre.  I then added snips into from the woven edge all the way down the length of it approximately every quarter inch or so.  I taped the ends to my craft mat, then used my heat tool to melt each of the cut segments.  I added red line tape to the cut edge of the ribbon and rolled the length of the ribbon to create the flower.  I seated the flower on some gold tulle on my card.  I cut a Faux Quilled leaves die then nipped them apart to add some bits around the flower.  I stamped  small sentiment and cut it out with the tag from the Nested Cloud die set.  I sponged some Perfect Medium on it while in the die, then removed it and added gold embossing powder and heated it.  I tucked the tag under the flower then added a couple of fancy stick pins that I made.  To finish, I added a double pierced white mat with a thin black mat in the middle.  Finished dimensions are 6" x 7 1/4" in size.  Leave me a comment if you would like to be entered in the drawing for this one.  The winner will be posted on Saturday's blog.
  Thank you so much to everyone that left birthday wishes for my Mom.  I didn't want to say anything on the blog  because we threw her a surprise party Tuesday morning at the cafe where we go for breakfast every morning!  She didn't expect it at all especially since we didn't do it on her actual birthday!  Unfortunately, I couldn't get my youngest brother out here for it this year, but I think Mom really enjoyed all the fuss!  I will try to get  a few of the pictures up on Thursdays or Fridays blog post for you!  All for now, Sue x