Hello crafty friends! Today's card features Change is Beautiful from Polka Dot Orchard. This was such a fun card to make. the first thing I would like to bring your attention to is the melted sequin on the card. I was curious to see what would happen to gold toned sequin if I put Antique Linen distress embossing glaze on them and heat them. Well... a melted sequin with a little texture from the embossing glaze. That worked perfect for this project as the regular gold sequin just wasn't what I was looking for.
So in this beautiful set from Polka Dot Orchard, there are two butterflies. I printed them in a set of 6 on vellum and printed one big butterfly on watercolor paper. I used a distress embossing pen with a brush tip to color in the parts of the butterfly that I wanted the cracked pistachio distress embossing glaze to adhere to. Then after I heat embossed it, I took the whole image of the butterfly that I cut out and smooshed it in an embossing pad. I added the Antique linen Embossing glaze over the whole thing and heat embossed it. I love the way it turned out. It made the cracked pistachio look a little antique as well.
For my final touch, I printed the sentiment on black cardstock, then added matte white foil over it and ran it through my laminator between two pieces of cardstock to have the foil adhere to the print on the cardstock. I cut the sentiment up in little strips and glued them to the card. The patterned paper that the vellum is on is from an old paper pack by Prima marketing. (Any old fashioned looking paper would do in it's place.)
Just look at how the melted sequin fit this card so perfectly! (Just a note- when I heated them, I held the center of the sequin down with a pointy tweezer to keep it from flying away.)
If you have any questions on how I made this, please feel free to ask.
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