Category: Love You Always

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, the theme for today’s Freshly Brewed Projects Blog Hop is perfect – WITH LOVE.

I recently started a project on a Facebook Live showing how to use the new GILDED LEAFING and HEAT & STICK POWDER. I finished the card later that day and scheduled it for this hop.

I teamed some of the TRUE LOVE DESIGNER SERIES PAPER with some IN GOOD TASTE DSP.

Surprisingly, I continue to do more fussy cutting. I cut out three of the larger flowers from a sheet of the DSP and coloured them using my Night of Naving Blends.

I have had a couple of Versamark pens for several years, and although you can’t get them from Stampin’ Up!® at the moment, mine still work and I used the fine tip end to add it to selected areas of the flowers. Then I sprinkled some Heat & Stick Powder to them. The Heat Tool melts the powder and then you simply press the Gilded Leafing onto to those areas. Then I used a brush to remove the excess leafing.

I used the Versamark ink pad to stamp Love and Always, from the FOREVER AND ALWAYS STAMP SET, onto some Night of Navy card stock. After the gilded leafing was applied and brushed off, I cut them using the outline dies from the ALWAYS DIES.

The Gold ribbon, from the BOHO INDIGO PRODUCT MEDLEY, looks great with the gilding. I used my favourite bow tying technique – around the tines of a fork, to create this little bow before I wrapped the ribbon around the DSP panel.

By lightly sprinkling some of the powder across the flowers and heating them, I was able to get tiny flecks of gold on the coloured flowered.

The card insert has a sentiment from the ALWAYS IN MY HEART STAMP SET, which also in the LOVE YOU ALWAYS SUITE – I used the “Here’s to another year of happily ever after”. This is perfect for a golden anniversary card.

The “You” is from the Forever & Always Stamp Set and I cut it using the same die set that has the Love and Always.

A few hearts are also stamped on the insert and the envelope – you know me, no ‘naked’ inserts or envelopes.

TIPS FOR USING THE GILDED LEAFING:

• store it in a larger container – it will allow you to access the leaf more easily,
• use a pair of tweezers to pull out individual pieces and then you can easily place it over a section of the melted Heat & Emboss Powder,
• use something to press it down onto the ‘glue’ – I use a paint brush,
• once all the leafing is in place, use a brush to remove the excess leafing and pop the leftovers back into your container,
• if you have missed some areas, use a Versamark pen to fill the areas and repeat the steps,
• turn off your fan and work with the leafing away from windows or it will fly everywhere.

What do you think? Are you ready to try your hand at some gilded leading.

Make sure that you hop along and see the other projects made for the Freshly Brewed Projects Blog Hop:

• Jeanne Moss
• Leonie Schroder
• Michele Miller
• Narelle Fasulo

Thanks for popping by … happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

Product List

Love You Always Suite Collection [155977] $281.25	Forever & Always Photopolymer Stamp Set [154343] $31.00	Always In My Heart Photopolymer Stamp Set [154337] $31.00	Always Dies [154307] $57.00
True Love Designer Series Paper [154281] $20.00	In Good Taste Designer Series Paper [152494] $37.00	Basic White A4 Cardstock [159228] $17.00	Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock [106577] $15.25
Night Of Navy Classic Stampin' Pad [147110] $13.00	Night Of Navy Stampin' Blends Combo Pack [154891] $15.50	Heat & Stick Powder [156110] $10.50	Versamark Pad [102283] $16.50
Heat Tool [129056] $50.00	Gilded Leafing Embellishment [154560] $15.75	Boho Indigo Product Medley (English) [153132] $122.00	Basic White C6 Envelopes [159235] $13.00
Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00	Tear & Tape Adhesive [138995] $11.50	Mini Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [150673] $104.00
Paper Snips [103579] $17.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $44.00