AAA Cards #47

Hello friends it's time for a new challenge over at AAA Cards  and we are looking for spectacular embossing! Before I show my card I would like to wish one of my super talented blog buddies a magnificent birthday today! Happy Birthday  Hannelie of Desert Diva and here's to a wonderful year ahead, full of happy memories! I'm sure many of you will know Hannelie, from blogland; she has AWESOME talent,  a unique CAS style, queen of the silhouette and sentiment creator supreme!  If you've never visited her blog you are missing one heck of a treat! Ok on to my card and if you saw my ATCAS post yesterday  you'll realise I've been trying out one of Jennifer McGuire's techniques!  Faux Metal using Perfect Pearls as seen HERE My card perhaps isn't as CAS as usual but I've tried to keep it to one main  image using a detailed embossing folder with very little embellishment.

I started out by inking and blending my card panel with various shades

 of blue Distress ink with an ocean / sea theme in mind. Once blended

I painted perfect pearls on top of the distress inks then using a Spellbinders

sea shells embossing folder to create the metallic textured look.

The sentiment, from Clearly Besotted: Dandelion Dreams, is heat-embossed

and to finish I've added some mini pearls and sequins for added sparkle.

It's an 'Anything Goes' week over at Simon Says Stamp so I can't 

resist popping across with another entry for their gallery.

.... AND because my inks were on my desk I decided to go with another embossed look!

This time using vellum and heat-embossing.

To begin with I've stamped the florals and leaves from a set by

Uniko: Pure Florals - Chrysanthemums using Versamark ink before

heat-embossing with clear embossing powder. Using blue shades again

I've inked and blended the distress inks over the vellum. 

To hide the adhesive I've wrapped my vellum panel around some light-weight

 white cardstock then adhered that to the card. The sentiment is from the same

Uniko set and is heat-embossed in WOW Metallic silver sparkle.

To finish a few more sparkly gems, strips of glitter and navy cardstock and a 

corner crop to the bottom right corner of the card.

Here's our photo inspiration and I hope you find a little crafty time

to play along with us.

For more inspiration please head over to the AAA Cards blog HERE where my teamies have created some awesome embossed cards ... PLUS we are introducing our new design team members! Thanks as always for calling by my blog and I hope you have a fun  and crafty week! See you soon!