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Art Gallery Flowers With Gilded Leafing

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Art Gallery Flowers With Gilded Leafing

I finally got a chance to play with some of the new products in the Fine Art Floral Suite in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog! I almost made a giant mess but I think the card turned out pretty well for my first try!

I started with a card base of Magenta Madness, one of the current In Colors. When I looked for a piece of white cardstock for the layer, I had a shorter piece and decided to just cut it down to 4″ x 4″ instead of covering the whole front of the card.

One of the new products I have been dying to try was the Gilded Leafing! If you get this, it’s a REAL GOOD IDEA to put the whole jar in a large enough container that a card will fit into. That way you can stick the whole card into the gold leafing to apply it. I found a perfect size container in the closet but I still nearly spilled it while making this card when the attached lid pulled it backward! Yikes! What a mess that would have been! The gold leafing is very thin, light, and will go ANYWHERE if you let it! Some pieces are big, some are tiny.

I stamped two flowers with Magenta Madness Ink and then used the two-step stamping smaller image to stamp over the original flower with Versamark Ink. Then I dumped on the Heat & Stick Powder (it’s back!) and embossed it with my Heat Tool. You don’t want to overheat the Heat & Stick Powder. After I heated it, I just plunged the card face down into the Gilded Leafing! It came up looking like a mess like a kindergartner would have made. But I just rubbed off some of the big pieces of leafing and then used a retired stencil brush I had from Stampin’ Up! from many years ago I think. I just brushed and brushed the gold leafing until all the excess came off.

You should really do all your stamping before you add the gold leaf. I added two Mango Melody flowers and got the gold on my stamp where it overlapped. Luckily it did wash off my stamp at the sink.

I adhered a strip of the 3/8″ Fine Art Ribbon that has gold threads in it along the bottom of the stamped panel. I tied a separate small bow and adhered it with several Mini Glue Dots.

For the greeting I stamped the sentiment on a scrap of white cardstock and die cut with the die in the Floral Gallery Dies. You can buy the dies and the Art Gallery Stamp Set together in the Art Gallery Bundle.

To check out all these new products, especially the Gilded Leafing, check out pages 32-34 in the spring Mini and also in the Online Store!

Fine Art Floral Golden Garden Birthday Card

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Fine Art Floral Golden Garden Birthday Card

I thought I would make an easy but beautiful card for this blog post and of course that meant using the Fine Art Floral Suite to make this Fine Art Floral Golden Garden Birthday Card. I know the title is a little weird, but it’s because I used the Golden Garden Designer Specialty Acetate Sheets. I didn’t even know what they were called, just that they were in the new spring mini catalog and I had them! If you place them just right, some parts match this designer paper!

First I made the card. I wanted to use the Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper. I chose the sheet that has one top corner bare of flowers. Actually, there is another sheet with a blue background and yellow flowers, but this one has the white background with pinkish flowers. You’ll see it in your package. You could also just frame this sheet of paper, kind of like some other designer paper we had one time! Or use it for a scrapbook page. I chose So Saffron for the card base, one of the paper’s coordinating colors….and there are a lot of coordinating colors with this paper!

Next, I got out the Golden Garden Acetate Sheets and found the portion that matched the flowers on the paper and cut it out. I just put tiny dots of Multipurpose Liquid Glue on the back of the acetate on the widest parts of the printed design in hopes of hiding the glue. Actually, when you turn the acetate over, you could use that side instead! Then I carefully overlaid the acetate on the floral paper. Be sure to adhere the ribbon around the designer paper and acetate before you adhere to the card base. I added a piece of the 3/8″ Fine Art Ribbon which is soft, pliable, and has gold in it!

The greeting is stamped in Flirty Flamingo Ink from the Art Gallery Stamp Set in the Suite. I die cut the piece with one of the Tasteful Labels Dies. Next, I cut out two flowers from a scrap of the designer paper and popped them up on the corners of the greeting. I’m not sure if I like them or not, but they are there.

That’s all there is to this card! Once again, the beautiful designer paper does most of the work to give you a lovely card! The acetate overlay is a bonus. HERE is another card I made recently with both sides of the same designer paper.

You’ll find all of these supplies in the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog. And while you are ordering, be sure to keep Sale-A-Bration in mind and order in $50 increments so you earn FREE Sale-A-Bration products! No limits!

If you want EVERYTHING, order the Fine Art Floral Suite Collection (155982) and get it all by just putting in one item number. It has been on backorder but as I write this it should be available next week. Or just order the individual products that you want, or the Bundle. I’m sure you will want these beautiful products to make a card like this Fine Art Floral Golden Garden Birthday Card!