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I made this card a while ago for my friend Jacquie’s birthday; I know she’s received it so it’s safe to post it.

Jacquie’s favourite colours are orange and gold so the palette was easy. And the card is pretty easy too as long as you remember to use the embossing buddy to prevent any stray specks of embossing powder. So after using the embossing buddy, I stamped the image from the Stampin’ Up! Remarkable You set, sprinkled on the gold powder and then heated the powder. It definitely helps to turn on the heat tool and have it heat up for a minute before starting to melt the powder. It’s also good to leave the card for a minute or two afterwards – I once smeared the gold embossing by touching it immediately afterwards. Then use the embossing buddy again – even if you already swiped it over all of the card – before stamping the sentiment. This one is from Cottage Greetings and seems appropriate for a birthday. I matted the piece of tangelo twist with gold foil before putting it onto a tangelo twist card base. Definitely one very orange and gold card! I stamped one of the flowers in tangelo twist onto the envelope as well.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

When I was looking at challenge sites at the weekend, I found that the TGIF challenges site was doing a remix – you take the last few challenges are make a project that satisfies at least two of them. The four challenges to choose from are colour, sketch, clean & simple and brand new. I decided to do all but the sketch. Here’s my card:

Here’s the challenge banner which inspired it, including the colours:

I was planning to use the flower from the set Remarkable You as my brand new item but actually this was the first time that all three stamped images were inked up. I started with the background stamp from You’ve Got This, stamping off once first to get a muted island indigo image on the smoky slate base. I then used smoky slate embossing powder for the flower from Remarkable You – I really love this set. It’s one of the more expensive ones, but it’s so worth it. This is the fourth card I’ve made in a week with it.

After embossing the flower, I used blackberry bliss ink and a blender pen to colour in the petals and then stamped the sentiment, You’ve Got This, from the stamp set of the same name. A small mat of island indigo on the blackberry bliss card base really pulled this clean and simple card together.

See you tomorrow,

Liz