Thursday, September 14, 2017

Eggplant, Green & Gold

Hello!  Yesterday, I decided to do some heat embossing.  Although I love the look, it is not my favorite technique to do.  BUT, totallly worth the effort at times. I am going for FALL colors, maybe a strange color combination, but I love the look.


The heat embossing is done on eggplant cardstock.  It is very dark, but is a nice alternative to black.  I then cut an oval out of it with a die.  I originally heat embossed the sentiment, but it did not show up as well as I would have liked on the green, so I got out my matching eggplant ink and used that.  

The butterflies are stickers.  I did stick the big one onto green cardstock, trimmed it out and put gold stickles inside.  

Supplies:  Hero Arts? Flower background, Verve Stamps Brighter Days set, Versamark Ink, Gina K Edible Eggplant cardstock and ink, Recollections cardstock from an old autumn mix, Spellbinders Oval die, other items from my stash.

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9 comments:

Carol L said...

I'm digging this unusual color combo and those butterflies look so pretty all sparkled up :)

Mac Mable said...

Amazing colour way...love it and such a change to see the eggplant as the colour of the card stock....love it x

lostinpaper said...

Stunning! The embossed background on the 'eggplant' colour totally packs a punch and worth the effort for sure!

Beth Norman said...

Beautiful. The bg captured my attention right away. Lovely sentiment on your green, which pops. Neat idea to add the butterflies.

Barbara said...

This unusual color combo is what really makes this card "pop" and I love the uniqueness. I hope that you do more embossing and that it becomes your favorite. As you said, it is totally worth it. Thanks for sharing with us this week at the Mod Squad Challenge.
Barbara Challenge Host.

Cat Craig said...

Fabulous color combinations here Heidi.

Marina said...

Great idea to emboss on the eggplant - it looks gorgeous - and I like how you matched the ink up too.

wannabcre8tive said...

A very pretty card. I love the background and the eggplant card stock.

Megan J said...

Hi Heidi, a lovely card, heat embossing is a fairly new to me technique, your background turned out so well... have a wonderful week... Megan