Love You So Much

Hi, Friends.......

I am here with a pretty card with lots of sparkle and gleam. I never feel particularly constrained to use traditional colors for things....so I think this could totally work as a valentine! ❤❤❤







My card is inspired by the gorgeous mood board from the Winnie & Walter January Color Combo Challenge. Look at those scrumptious colors: Mint, Gold, and Silver. Totally swooning here!!








I already had a pretty mint-colored smooshed background on hand, but it was a challenge for me to use both gold and silver along with it....since I usually don't mix metals. Embossing powder to the rescue!!! 

I heat embossed my background image with both gold and silver. I sprinkled the first color over just a couple parts of the rose background, being careful to tip the excess powder away from the image, and melted it as usual. The Versamark ink was still sticky on the other parts so I could easily sprinkle the second color over it and emboss as usual. Love the effect!!!

I wanted to use the love sentiment but the die cut seemed to get visually lost in the background pattern. To remedy that, I put some vellum down first to set it off. The translucent strip gives just enough contrast so the sentiment doesn't vanish! :)

Here's another shot so you can see the gleam of the embossing and of the DCWV Mercury Glass matting panel. Love love love!!!! The little hearts are from the same W&W So Tweet set as the sentiment.

Supplies used include:
Winnie & Walter - Mini Scenery: Bed of Roses stamp
Winnie & Walter - LS Exclusives: So Tweet with Evelin T Designs stamp set
Winnie & Walter - LS Exclusives: So Tweet with Evelin T Designs die set
Versamark Ink
Ranger - Embossing Powder silver and gold
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Audrey Cutaways die set
Winnie & Walter - Essentials: Katharine Cutaways die set
DCWV Mercury Glass Stack
Smooshed background on mixed media paper from my stash
Scraps of vellum and various solid cardstock from my stash

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by today. I hope you like my card!!

❤
Janis

Thank you for the honor of entering this card in the following challenges:
1. Winnie & Walter January Color Combo Challenge
2. Allsorts Challenge #505 - Love
3. Power Poppy - Creative Confetti Challenge - All You Need is Love
4. The Artistic Stamper February Challenge - Heart It
5. Dare2BArtzy February Challenge - LOVE
6. Penny Black and More February Challenge - AG w/ opt of tags
7. Craft Stamper February TIMI Challenge - AG with Stamping
8. Die Cut Divas February Challenge - Love is in the Air
9. Papercraft Challenge #15 - AG opt Valentine or Love
10. Card Mania Challenge #CMC113 - Love is in the Air
11. Double D Challenge - Hearts (any color)
12. Double Trouble Challenge #21 - Flowers + Atlantic Hearts Sketch
13. Lost Coast Challenge #69 - Love and Hearts
14. Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday - Dies/Punches or Hearts
15. CARDZ-TV Anything Goes Challenge #82
16. Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #302