Freshly Made Sketches #248

Hello my lovely friends!  I do hope this finds you well and having a great week!  Today, I have a card for one of my favourite challenges that I have woefully neglected for quite some time . . . you all know what life can be, don't you . . . it just gets in the way sometimes!

Anywho,  when I saw this sketch over on the Freshly Made Sketches challenge blog . . . 

. . . everything just fell into place.  I already had the front panel with the score lines, to represent the horizontal of the strip in the sketch and the 'faux metal' leaves from a video I had followed on You Tube - I've just looked for it, to link it, and do you know, I can't find it anywhere?  I will tell you how it was done after the pictures, as usual.  Here you go.

First I made a plain white card base and adhered the panel with the hand-scored lines and mounted it to the front of the card base with a piece of craft foam - that was a mistake, I will explain later - then, I mounted the leaves, the first one flat to the card and the second with clear foam tape.

Next, I stamped the sentiment in Versamark and heat embossed it with copper embossing powder . . . yep!  that's right, you saw it back there didn't you?  That was my mistake, I should have done that before I mounted it on to the card!!  Well hindsight is always 20/20 isn't it?  The panel - predictably - warped!   I cussed a little, I don't mind admitting, at my own stupidity and shoved it under a heavy book.

When I came back to it, it was much improved, and I finished it off with a few of my dew drops.  I don't think it is too noticeable now - thankfully - and, hopefully, I'll remember to think it through completely before I start, but I was excited to see the end result.

Now, back to the faux metal leaves.  I took some white, layering card-stock and crumpled it up into a ball.  Then I flattened it out again with my hands, so the wrinkles stayed in it.

Then, I covered them with Versamark and sprinkled some copper and some gold EP's in patches and heat set.  Then I repeated the process for a second layer - you can do this as many times as you want, the more the layers, the smoother the finish - and that was done.

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