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Sunday, 26 May 2019

Gold and silver

I think in all my years of stamping this must be the first time I've ever used two different colours of powder for heat embossing. It was bound to happen sometime!


I used the Christmas text background stamp from Uniko, stamped it with Versamark ink then covered the top two thirds in silver embossing powder, leaving a roughly diagonal line at the edge of the powder, shook it off then covered the rest with gold powder,  sprinkling a little into the silver area to create a blended edge rather than a hard border,  before heat embossing the whole lot.

It's a pity my silver powder is shiny and my gold is sparkly, as it makes it very difficult to take a photo where the two show up equally well, so you'll just have to take my word about all the sparkle  in the gold area!

I am sharing this with

Jingle Belles - Text Me 
Sparkles Monthly Challenge - The Colour Purple 
Fab'n'Funky - Christmas 
Crafty Hezelnut's Christmas Challenge - anything goes/ silver 
Inkspirational - Gold Dipped 
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10 comments:

  1. Dotty Jo26 May 2019 at 17:52

    Wow! What an amazing effect - looks good against the purple, Jo x

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  2. Chris26 May 2019 at 19:22

    Fabulous design, love the two tone embossing, it contrasts so beautifully with the purple! Thanks for playing along at Fab'n' Funky this week.
    Chris
    x

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  3. crafty-stamper26 May 2019 at 22:41

    Love the stamp and great effect with two embossing powders-great idea
    Carol x

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  4. Liz26 May 2019 at 23:06

    I love the effect of the two embossing colours, Jane, looks great against the purple. xx

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  5. Marina27 May 2019 at 19:41

    It's a fabulously luxurious graduated effect. Great card. Thank you for joining us at Inkspirational Challenges.

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  6. SmilynStef28 May 2019 at 03:21

    Wow ... what a regal effect with the two embossing powders ... so very glad you got TEXT-y with us at Jingle Belles.

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  7. Wendy28 May 2019 at 19:57

    Beautiful Christmas card..Thanks for joining us at Fab'n'Funky :)
    Wendy x

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  8. Nonni1 June 2019 at 08:29

    Love the purple with the gold... Very stylish and beautiful! Than Christmas stamp is such great for focal point... I think I need it! :) Thanks for inspiration and thanks for joining us at Inkspirational!

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  9. lauren bergold2 June 2019 at 16:38

    what a beautiful card! and hilariously enough, i nearly didn't recognize that amazing text block stamp as being the same one stephanie used recently, just because it looks SO incredibly different! wow! thanks for getting texty with us at JINGLE BELLES! ♥

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  10. Vickie Y4 June 2019 at 18:37

    Very pretty! Thank you for sharing with us at The Sparkles Monthly Challenge.

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