Our surrogate daughter informed us that in early January she is being promoted in her job. The challenge here at Inkspirational has an interesting mood board and I took the colour theme of black and gold along with the heart cushions and patterns for my card. I honestly had no idea what I was going to make when I started, but have learned that often a card will evolve. Cutting some gold CS and some black and white striped CS was my first task. Then I decided to die cut the heart in the center of the gold panel, after which I added the striped piece at the back. Taking an older EF from Lifestyle crafts I was going to run it through when I suddenly thought about die cutting a smaller heart from the center. Used Hero Arts dies for my cutting and then I ran it through the EF. I die cut a small gold heart which I paper pieced into the center before adding the whole panel onto the note card. Using some cut apart sentiments from Paper Roses, I found the perfect one to add as you see.
All the texture adds a lot of interest and tones down the shiny gold a bit. I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. Because of all the texture, my card also fits into the CYHTP challenge too, although I didn’t take the winter twist part of the challenge.
In addition I shall add it to a new to me challenge called https://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.com/ T is for Texture is the choice for the current one.
I shall wait until the promotion is fully confirmed before sending this card, but I’m sure she will be surprised and pleased with it. Thanks for stopping by, all comments are appreciated.
Lavender House Creations 
That’s a card with real impact! Thanks for playing along with us at Alphabet Challenge!
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Thanks Deb, it was fun to see what not really planning evolved into.
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Lovely card! The bright colors and texture make it something special.
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Thanks Lisa.
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Awesome card. Very elegant with the black, gold and white. The die cut heart brings so much interest to the eye from the shiny embossed panel.
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Thanks. When I ran it through the EF and realized how much texture was added to the striped piece behind the gold, I was a bit concerned. Adding the single no texture heart seemed to soften it all a bit.
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WOW!! Very beautiful and elegant. Love the die cut heart in the larger punched heart.
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Thanks Gerry. Sometimes not thinking about a card too much evolves into a nice result.
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Gorgeous card. Your textured metallics are so elegant.
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Thanks my friend.
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This is just STUNNING! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Can You Handle the Pressure challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Co-Owner … Can You Handle the Pressure, Double D, Four Seasons, Peace On Earth, Stencil Fun, Simply Clean & Simple, Two Old Bats, Triple B, Word Power
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Thanks so much and Happy New Year to you and yours.
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A very classy card – love the heart shape in the middle of the embossed piece xx
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Thanks Lynda.
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So pretty in the black/white/Gold Johanna! – love that embossed background and the pretty heart – a wonderful congrats card for your daughter! thanks for joining us at Inkspirational: Moodboard! Julia xx
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Thanks so much
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Oh wow! This is super pretty.
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Thanks – its in the mail to her and I hope she likes it.
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The embossing on the metallic looks great – very striking.
Thanks for joining us at The Alphabet Challenge.
Helen x
DT
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Great texture and shine! Love the heart in the cut-out heart.
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Thanks, she loved it.
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