As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I heat embossed Merry Medley with the copper embossing powder (I’m having a bit of an embossing week!) and then cut up the image into separate sentiments. As you can see, I’m continuing using up that pile of sentiments. It’s a lot more sparkly and pretty in person.

The gorgeous swoosh from Star of Light was still out on my desk – apparently I haven’t quite adopted Pootles’ mantra of “don’t put it down, put it away”! – and ever since the earlier card, I wanted to do the swooshes again, this time on night of navy. So I swiped my card with the embossing buddy and stamped the swoosh a couple of times, ensuring that they began in about the same place, and sprinkled silver embossing powder. After heating so that they shone, I used the embossing buddy again and stamped a couple more times and added the copper embossing powder. I’ve seen mixed metals around lately and thought it would be fun to try on a card and I really like how it looks. Of course after I’d added the two copper swooshes, I could see that I was missing a tiny bit of silver at the bottom to balance the card, so I went for a third silver embossed swoosh.

I wanted the sentiment as part of the card, rather than trying to really stand out, so for once, I didn’t pop it up. A few enamel shapes in metallic silver and I was done.

Now that I have the design, this would be an easy card to mass produce – with just two rounds of heat embossing rather than three! Just be sure to hold your cardstock unfolded or your card can warp slightly. I originally thought that folded would be better, it’s really not. If it’s single, you can turn it over and straighten out your card by heating the other side.

See you tomorrow,

Liz