Yesterday Stampin’ Up! released many new products called “Online Exclusives”. These are products that will not appear in a catalog, just in the Online Store. This beautiful designer paper is one of the new products! It wasn’t easy getting a photo with the glare of the shiny foil designs on the paper. The paper is so pretty that I just went with an all-gold theme for this card!
This designer paper is called Naturally Gilded 12″ x 12″ Specialty Designer Series Paper. It has trees and foliage designs in metallics, using gold, silver, and copper foil. You get two sheets of each of the three designs and the paper only has a design on one side. You can use it for a scrapbook page, as a layer on cards, or even as accents on your projects. If you are technique-oriented, you can ink the background of the paper using Blending Brushes or Sponge Daubers for a different, colorful look.
The gold pattern has an ivory background so I used Very Vanilla cardstock for the card base. Then I just added a full layer of the Gilded paper, 5 1/4″ x 4″ with a piece of ribbon with gold trim around the designer paper before adhering to the card base. The ribbon is one that was carried over from the Holiday Mini and is VERY pretty, the Gold & Vanilla 3/8″ Satin Edged Ribbon. It is perfect with this card!
For the greeting, I felt that I needed to emboss the words in gold. The greeting is in the Irresistible Blooms Stamp Set. I stamped it in Versamark ink on Very Vanilla and used Gold Embossing Powder plus the Heat Tool. The greeting and the Gold Foil layer underneath are both diecut with the new dies in the Spring Mini on page 17, the Something Fancy Dies. I adhered the greeting over the ribbon and added a few gold Festive Pearls.
If you like to make easy, elegant-looking cards I think you will like the new Naturally Gilded Designer Series Paper!