The Clean and Simple Boutique card class in the AECP program has been one of my favorites so far. This class showed so many amazing techniques of how to make a simple card special! My inspiration this week was creating a pattern background with stamps and embossing them. For this card I used the Altenew Geometric Menagerie stamp set. This set is so fun and versatile, and I felt the patterns and shapes would make an interesting background. I started by stamping the lion stamp in Versamark ink. I placed the first stamp center and then lined up the front paws to his tail in a diagonal pattern. This first section I sprinkled on hot pink embossing powder and heat set.
Once this was cooled, I used a clear embossing powder bag, so the next embossing powder would only stick to the Versamark ink. I add the next set of lions and used a reflective metallic embossing powder by Lindy's. Having both reflective and opaque embossing powder gives the card some fun movement, texture and detail to this beautiful stamp.
I then cut down my embossed panel to create a small border and added a matching hot pink paper. I stamped You're cool (and I'm not lion) to a 1" piece of vellum, wrapped and attached to the back of the panel. To complete this card, I added two stripes of hot pink paper to line the vellum, this helped tie the vellum to the card.
I felt this needed a matching envelope, so I created one using my We R Memory Keepers envelope board with the same hot pink paper. This made for a perfectly matched card and envelope set!
