Roses, embossing paste and gelatos

Here's another card that had been waiting patiently to be finished off with a sentiment. I finally settled on a simple black sentiment strip using Altenew's Label love set and foam mounted it with a silver thread nest. This way, I did not have to cover up much of those pretty roses.

I started out with a panel of watercolour card that already had a touch of pink from some left-over distress ink after doing some ink smooshing for another project. Through a stencil (Old Rose Prints, Artplorations), I applied transluscent embossing paste (Dreamweaver) that I had mixed on my craft mat with three colours of metallic gelatos. While the embossing paste was still wet, I sprinkled a little sparkling embossing powder (Wanderlust by WOW, created especially for the latest SOA collection by Catherine Pooler). Because I did not heat set it right away, much of the embossing powder blew off when I finally did try to heat set the powder, but the little powder that did melt gives a lovely subtle sparkle in real life. 

Challenges:

The Flower Challenge - #10 Embossing (heat/dry)

STAMPlorations Never-ending Anything goes challenge

More Mixed Media - Anything goes (option: pastel)

HLS Mixed Media - Texture