It's not that I was feeling industrious. Nor was it because I needed to make two cards for our Jingle Belles Challenge. But I figured that since I had the embossing powder out, and since it was a nice cool day and I did not need the fan on, and since we had our power back, and since the power was still out at work and I was able to come home early, I might as well take advantage of it and stamp and emboss more than one image. You see our theme this week is "The Midas Touch" and we were to use gold and/or silver on our card along with our choice of neutrals. Our guest Belle is Leslie of The Crooked Stamper. This is a wonderful challenge that also let me ink up a new stamp set - Comfort and Joy.
My choice was further inspired by the fact that I bought the two-pack of Nutella at Costco and had opened each jar and had carefully removed the gold foil seal on the jar to use in some craft project. So I had two of those to use also.
I really did not intend to wait until yesterday to work on this/these cards, but Sunday, as I was preparing my work space (cleaning and purging would be good words too) our power went out - the tail end of Hurricane Irene had nailed us. She flooded our basement, but we had that under control. And she toyed with the power off and on for most of Sunday afternoon. But just as the sun was beginning to go down the wind was too much for the power lines somewhere down the road and our power went out. Lasted about 18 hours which is not bad compared to some people who are still without. But when you are planning to emboss, and I must say that I don't often do that, you need electricity for your heat gun. So I had to put this off until yesterday.
I will tell you though that I put that time before the sun completely went down to good use. There were numerous (I'm embarrassed to say just how many) stamp sets that I had not mounted and that was one of the things that I could relocate to the kitchen counter by the window. So now I have no excuses to ink up some more of my new sets soon.
Here are the details of the cards. The cardstock is metallic gold cardstock that I picked up at One Little Spark. The stamp set is called Comfort and Joy from the new Holiday Mini catalog. I stamped that bird image in VersaMark ink on Very Vanilla cs and embossed with gold EP. The gold Nutella seals were die cut with the Sizzix Pennant die. The top card has a bit of crocheted lace (thank you Sabrina) and some gold cording threaded through. The bottom card is outlined with SU's gold glass glitter. They both have an antique gold SU brad. I used some of those paper doilies that are in my stash and the sentiment is also embossed.
I think I will earmark these cards for the grandmothers. Now I'm off to see the other beauties - join me here.
well i think the grandmothers are gonna be ♥THRILLED♥ with these in december... i mean, *WHO* would not be??! soooooo gloriously golden but still elegant rather than over done. yet another miss lorraine HOME RUN i think! ♥
ReplyDeleteps: glad irene did not do worse... and most wise to use your "downtime" so well!!! :)
I love ALL your reasons for staying home to stamp! And I love this set - so pretty. And you're right - it's almost cool enough to emboss again! Very nice card. :) Thanks for joining us this week at Jingle Belles!
ReplyDeleteKudos to you for a brilliant upcycle of the Nutella foil! I admire you use of doilies too. Your stamped image is beautiful; the grandmothers will surely love these lovely cards.
ReplyDeleteIrene certainly hit you much harder than here in the D.C. area, and I am impressed with how you used your time to prepare stamp sets and purge your craft room. Our basement actually flooded with the previous storm, but we also got it under control before it made it to my craft room. It made me realize that I should purge some more just in case…I love to organize, but I'd rather make another card :)
Sorry to read about your power outage and flooded basement, but I'm glad it wasn't any worse than that, Lorraine. You used your daylight and time wisely by getting those new stamps mounted.
ReplyDeleteI love the golden beauty you created, and I'm sure the grandmothers will, too!
Hi Lorraine, Gorgeous cards! Brilliant use of the nutella liners - I think it's a perfect excuse to go pick some up! :) Beautiful embossed image too - so elegant done in the gold. A relief that Irene dwindled before reaching you, though it sounds like you made very good use of your time... Hugs
ReplyDeleteWhat an elegant card ... such pretty elements ... so glad you joined our jingle belles fun.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you didn't suffer too much from the storm, and were prepared for the outage - hopefully it didn't affect you too much. Sounds as if you made good use of the time getting the stamps mounted. Just typical that one time you really needed power for your card-making you didn't have it.
ReplyDeletethe stamped images are simply gorgeous! wow! and I think it's so resourceful to use the foil from the nutella jar! i could make dozens with the amount my DH gets through! really super cards
ReplyDeleteLove your gold embossing and so glad you got your electricity on and didn't have to put the fan on - a perfect embossing day!!!! It's also nice to have time to actually mount all of those stamps - it's amazing how they can just sit around waiting for us :) Love the addition of the glitter and the lace - just perfect!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, I'd say you surely had the "golden touch" for these cards! Pretty! :)
ReplyDeleteLook at you, being productive with a power outage. There is not much you can do with no power and you managed to think of something that needed to be done and now it is! I have a bunch that need that to. I shoulda mailed mine to you! Snort!
ReplyDeleteThese are very pretty Lorraine! I betcha even more so in real life with the gold.....Beautiful and aren't you glad they are done! Whoot!