Wednesday Weekly Card Giveaway

 Hi bloggers!  Today's giveaway card uses one of my all time favourite techniques called "caught in crystal."  It is truly a shame that you can't see this one in person (well one of you be able to!) because the photography just does not pick up the depth of colour and bling that this has to it.  I do have this technique as a tutorial at the top of my blog, but to give you a quick rundown, you need a piece of acetate, some crystal lacquer (or glossy accents), alcohol inks in three colours and some mica powder.  You lay down the lacquer first, then drip your alcohol inks into it all over, and dust with mica powder.  Then you crumple up a piece of tissue paper (like you use when you wrap a gift) and open it back up, but don't smooth out the wrinkles.  Dab it in to place using a wad of kitchen roll and set it aside to dry over night.  Once completely dry, cut it to size in a paper cutter and stamp on the smooth side of the acetate.  I used the Justrite Shabby Chic leaves set to stamp on this one.  I used black archival ink and let it dry overnight (as my acetate wasn't heat resistant so I didn't want to emboss it).  I stamped my sentiment from the set in black on white card and glued my crystal background to the top.  (A little tip when doing this technique is to mount it over white card and the colours really pop!)  I cut a Curved Border Two in black card and added it between the two sections as a decorative divider.    I tied some black and white Bakers Twine in a bow and added a black button as an embellishment.  I did a bit of matting and layering with white and black card before finishing with  a double white pierced mat layer.  Finished dimensions are 7 1/4"  x 7 3/4" in size.  If you would like to be entered into the drawing to win this card, you just need to leave a comment on today's post and check back to see if your name is drawn which will be posted on Saturday's post.  All for now, Sue x