Saturday 2 January 2016

ColourQ 322

This week's challenge at Colour Q is beautiful. I love the beach associations of Coastal Cabana and the hint of luxury from the gold. Very summer and very celebratory!


I was originally thinking New Year card, but that's been and gone, and New Year is a birthday time in our house so it's ended up a birthday card.




I used a stamp set that's been on my NBUS pile for a month or two now, Dotty Angles. Wow - it's a great set and I think I'll be using it a lot more! I've used it in here firstly in Coastal Cabana, then the same stamped off and finally again gold embossed. It layers up so well. I like the way it looks a bit like confetti, or floating balloons, and gives a really festive feel to the card.

The die-cut 'celebrate' is layered in black then the top gold-foil layer is slightly off-set to give a shadow effect.

Delighted to have this card named as a Colour Courtier at Colour Q.

Ingredients
Card: Whisper White, Basic Black, Coastal Cabana, Gold foil
Stamps: SU Dotty Angles, W&W Big, Bold and Party
Inks: Coastal Cabana, Tuxedo Black, versamark
Other: gold embossing powder, W&W Big Bold and Party dies, dimensionals, Coastal Cabana thick baker's twine, Gold cord trim.

4 comments:

  1. Oh my...gold and aqua polka dots...to die for!!! Love this design! Happy New Year! Thanks for playing along with ColourQ!

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  2. This is gorgeous! The gold 'celebrate' really pops off the card and the dots at the top look so festive.

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  3. Gorgeous! Love the gold embossing...very festive birthday card! Thank you for playing the CQC with us! Happy New Year to you!

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  4. Festive and very pretty! Thanks for joining us at ColourQ!

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