Hey everyone! How are you all today? 🙂
I haven’t played along with the Papertrey Ink Blog Hop for quite a while – but I knew I had to get inky with this one!!
Gold! Gold!! You know how much I love gold!!
Gold was one of the easiest trends for me to get on board with. In fact I feel like I’ve been *waiting* for this trend to come, y’know? It was made for me!
For my creation today I wanted to mix a modern design with different shades of gold, all in a sort of notecard-meets-opulence kind of look:
*swoon*!!! I just love love *love* how this turned out!!! Oh if only you could see it in real life – or if only I could capture its beauty better! It is simply *stunning*!!!
I started with a panel of Vintage Cream cardstock and stamped the chevron from Irresistibly Ikat using Tim Holtz’s Tarnished Brass Distress Paint. I allowed this to dry thoroughly then stamped the diamond using Versamark ink, altering the orientation for each row.
I heat embossed the diamonds using WOW! Metallic Gold Rich Pale embossing powder for a stunning effect!
I painted in a little of the Walnut Stain Distress Paint into some of the centres. It does actually resemble an old gold, love that!!
I mounted my panel onto a Vintage Cream card base using Pinflair Glue Gel – but not before I’d added some strips of POW! Glitter Paper in Caramel (looks like an old gold too!) to give the appearance of a mat. And that’s all I needed to do to bring this beauty together – no need for a sentiment for this one!!
I am *so* in love with this little card and how it turned out – and I would love to know if you love it too!! I’m looking forward to hopefully setting some time aside to look at some of the other entries for the Hop too – after all, who can resist all shiny shiny?!
ETA: I’m also linking up to the latest CASology Cue Card Challenge which is dedicated to all things gold!
Thanks so much for stopping by – I would love it if you left some love before you went on your way!
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Wow, Taheerah! This is a 24 karat masterpiece!
stunning! this pattern is wonderful, the embossing is perfect and you rocked it!
gorgeous card. it turned out beautifully with all that gold.
Such a rich and elegant card. It's beautiful Taheera.
Wow, so rich in color! FAB!
Feedly is making me angry….how the heck did I miss this yesterday?! So gorgeous!
Love the pattern you created – especially alternating the orientation of the center stamp!
Absolutely beautiful!! Love Love Love!
First thing that came to my mind, as soon as I saw the theme for this month was: T is going to rock it. It's so "you"! And you did, of course. Perfection!!
This is incredible T!!!!! So creative and gorgeous!!!
Ahhh-may-zing!!
Oh droooool… So glamorous! Love it
Brilliant!!!!
Brilliant use of the ikat set, and I love it in all those shades of gold.
Fabulous work!
I LOVE this!! Such a NEAT Card and a Fun take on the challenge!! THANKS for sharing and have a Fabulous Week!! =)
So you! Beautiful! TFS
Your card does make one swoon!! Great job.
Stunning! You rock!
This is truly GOLDEN! Love your design!
Love it T! Every time I seems card of yours with this Ikat set I want to buy it. Every. Single. Time. This is just stunning and oh so opulent…gorgeous creation.
Linda
Love that elegant pattern! Really pretty card!
It looks plenty amazing on the monitor so I can't even imagine how opulent and elegant this is in real life, Taheerah! Well done!!
So very pretty T!
Stunning!
Very pretty!
I think Goldfinger would have been tempted by this card, Taheerah! Love how sumptuous and rich it looks. Thanks for the inspiration.
Pure luxe! Beautiful *Ü*
love your opulent card
This is so gorgeous, T.! Absolutely stunning!
Now that's a lot of gold! Works so well with that pattern.
Oh Miss T, SO pretty.
Totally amazed! This is so gorgeous. Love.
Gorgeous combination of golds to create a glittery card!! Love it!!
The Ikat stamp is perfect for the use of gold! You made it shine!
so very pretty!
Loving all the GOLD GOODNESS! You sure rock in everything GOLD,Taheerah!
Gorgeous, Taheerah.
Oh swoon! Gold goodies overload! Love it, Taheerah!
Whoa!! GORGEOUS!
Easy to see why you love this card…it's fabulous!
What a stunning card. SO elegant and striking. – Irma
Love this!