For a Friend...

(Another sign might be forgetting the difference between your and you're!) 

"The cat goes out

And the cat comes back 

And no one can follow 

Upon her track.

She know where she's going,

She knows were she's been,

And all we can do

is to let her in.

---------- Marchette Chute

Hi, Friends......

I am back with another card for one of the many wonderful Winnie & Walter WCMD Challenges that are still going on over there. They do not close until Saturday evening, so there is still time for you to join in, too!!  (Did I mention there are fabulous prizes???)  This card is for the color challenge hostessed by Gayatri.  Here's the lovely color palette she chose:

Can Janis resist anything that has gold in it????  Not a chance!  And, gold with pink????  Oh, be still, my beating heart!!   :)

For this card I chose another of my reject extra backgrounds, as detailed in my last post.  This background started out as plain extra-thick white cardstock.  I inked up my Darice - Fall Leaf Background folder with several Distress Inks:  Worn Lipstick, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick and ran the piece through my Big Shot.  For this background I wanted even more texture, so I Versamarked over the textured design and heat embossed it with gold.....over and over and over. 

 
The more layers of gold embossing powder you put on it, the higher it builds up on the ridges of the embossing and the more chunky it looks.  It also partially fills in the valleys of your textured piece to give a rough, vintage appearance.  I LOVE this look!!  Also, love that it still lets my Distress Ink colors show through. 



I also gold heat-embossed a brand-new Inky Antics Script Sentiments #1 stamp I recently won (THANKS, Inky Antics!!).  Isn't that font just gorgeous??  Then I punched some fall leaves out of my brand-new Add a Little Dazzle metal sheets I won (THANKS, AALD!!!).  A Prima flower with sequin center and a gold leaf from some ribbon in my stash finished off the focal panel.  I matted it with DCWV pink cardstock and put it on a premade DCVW Glitter card base.  I am totally in love!!!!

Hope you have enjoyed this card, too.  Thanks so much for stopping by.  I LOVE reading your comments.  They mean more to me than you can imagine!!!  

<3
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges (oooh...lots of them!):
1.  Winnie & Walter WCMD 2014 Challenge - Colour Combo 
2 . MFP Speedy TV - Simple Salutations Challenge #115 - Use Metal
3.  Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use Watercolors
4.  Add a Little Dazzle Dazzling Diva Challenge #46 - Fall is Here or Anything Goes
5.  Word Art Wednesday Challenge #153 - Anything Goes
6.  Eclectic Ellapu - Purple Team - Texture Paste/Embossing  
7.  Double Click Connections - Use Pink
8.  Cards in Envy - Autumn Leaves - must be A2 Card size and flat for mailing.