New Card Tricks!

Ok, here they are! These are pictures of the cards my mother and I worked on this past weekend while at a stamping workshop. It was a Christmas theme (can you tell?). The main technique was using embossing paste over a dry emboss stencil. I have never done this before and was quite excited to try it! After the paste was dry, we embellished each card with gold leafing and paint sticks (which is pretty much like a glue stick, but paint instead of glue. We rubbed the paint stick onto wax paper then picked up the paint with small brushes then applied it to the card...very easy!). I know these pictures do not do a great job of showing the colors and gold leafing, but the cards did turn out pretty neat! The yellow card was done with black embossing paste then touched up with only the paint sticks. With the green card I used gold embossing paste then embellished with the paint sticks then added gold leafing to the pot.

The red card was done with gold paste but then gold leafing covered it completely. I like how it shows the verigated gold leafing (did I spell that right? verigated?). The purple card was also done with the gold paste, but I put some of the gold leafing on the flowers and blossoms as well as the ground. I also used the paint sticks on the stems, but you can't tell since I didn't use a whole lot (it was my first try with the paint sticks and I didn't quite know how to use them).

Overall it was a fun experience to learn some new techniques. Now comes the painful part......having to buy new supplies so I can continue to use my new 'card tricks'!