I made this with more of the serendipity squares paper I made back when we had TLC470. I loved this technique so gave it another go, but I loved the bg so much I didn't want to cover it up, so I created an open frame for my verse, stamped that on acetate and embossed in gold and matted that to the back of the frame. Then I stamped, heat embossed and cut out the Bee Balm and the Hummingbird, (used the ODBD Hummingbird Die) and mounted them in front of the frame. I loved how this came out.
For more details about this technique and pictures of how I did it please see this post on my blog.
Thanks so much for looking!
Date: Friday, March 21, 2014 GMT Views: 1140
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Registered: March 5, 2007 Location: Coatesville, Pennsylvania Posts: 44907
Fri, Mar 21, 2014 @ 6:20 AM
Oh Grace, this is fabulous!!! Love the background and love the gold embossing! Beautiful card, sistah!
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Fri, Mar 21, 2014 @ 8:07 AM
This is really wonderful Grace - what a clever idea to stamp onto the acetate so we can see your amazingly rich background. Your hummingbird is stunning!
Registered: May 29, 2006 Location: Eminence, Indiana Posts: 29593
Fri, Mar 21, 2014 @ 1:41 PM
Grace, this is so stunning! The background technique looks amazing and I love the gold embossing on the acetate! Such a creative, artsy look and gorgeous to boot! HUGS!!
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Sun, May 04, 2014 @ 12:43 AM
Oh Grace - I'm so happy I spotted this older upload this morning. The open frame idea is brilliant, because I so agree, it seems so wrong to cover up beautiful backgrounds when we've put a lot of work into making them in the first place. And I just love all that gold against your blues.