I took a very beautiful image from Spellbinders Magical Fuschia Collection by Alex Syberia and created a vintage inspired mixed media card. You can see this collection by clicking HERE. It's quite beautiful.
I only received the 3D embossing folder and have seen quite a few cards using it in a traditional way, colored in beautiful pinks and reds.
I decided I wanted a vintage spin on it.
I took copper metallic card stock, mine is from Michaels. It's a very shiny piece of paper with a kraft cardstock base. I embossed it with the Magical Fuchsia embossing folder and then I took a very small amount of black acrylic paint and rubbed it over the entire floral, into all the crevices. I then take a LIGHTLY damp paper towel and take off most of the paint. It takes away the shine and gives it an aged look by leaving the black paint in the crevices. I let it dry. I then fussy cut the floral image out.
For the card above, I took some Distress Crayons lightly rubbed it over the raised areas, then took my finger and moved the crayon around. I used Picked Raspberry for the flower and a bit of Speckled Egg for the leaves, just barely touching the leaves.
The Get Well Soon sentiment is cut once from the copper cardstock, once from black cardstock and adhered together for dimension and to make it sturdier. I rubbed the black acrylic paint over it in the same way to age it.
The 2 sentiments I used for my cards are from the Essentially Yours Collection. These sentiments are great. They cut the entire sentiment in 1 piece so there's no trying to line up the words or attach the dot over the i. Love that! It also includes the shadow die for the sentiment, I didn't use it on my cards but I will in the future. The best part is they are pretty inexpensive! You can see the entire collection HERE.
The background is a technique I came up with during 2020 lockdown when I saw Tim Holtz's eroded metallic technique. His is done with Distress paints. I couldn't find the metallic paint at the time, so I came up with a technique using Distress Sprays and Distress Resist. I've made a few YouTube videos showing the process. Here's two (same process different colors):
I took a Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide ink pad and ran it over the exposed spots. That's it! For the Thinking of You sentiment, I diecut it once from the same copper cardstock, once from black cardstock and stacked them together just for a bit of sturdiness and dimension. The copper cardstock is pretty thin, I think 65 lbs. I did the same technique of black acrylic and barely sanded it and put a bit of ink on it.
I flicked a bit of copper watercolor paint over the black background, then adhered everything. I used some foam tape on the folder image to pop it up a bit.
I'm really happy with how these came out but I'm going to do a more traditional card using this folder soon. I ordered the die, so another card will be made.
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Magical Fuschia Collection 
---- https://tinyurl.com/bd967f76 [Spellbinders]
---- https://tidd.ly/42eeK3Q [Scrapbookcom]
---- https://tidd.ly/41KoaUw [Simon Says Stamp]
---- https://tinyurl.com/3ykm3s9r [Spellbinders]
---- https://tidd.ly/4vECfQX [Simon Says Stamp]
Sentiment dies are available individually or in a bundle:
---- https://tinyurl.com/54ys5sya [Spellbinders]
---- https://tidd.ly/42hyMdH [Simon Says Stamp]
---- https://tidd.ly/4cVltWo [Scrapbookcom]
---- https://tinyurl.com/5czjyd6s [Spellbinders]
---- https://tidd.ly/4mKIYVO [Scrapbookcom]
---- https://tinyurl.com/ubu3j2kn [Spellbinders]
---- https://tidd.ly/4czl5eR [scrapbookcom]
Distress Sprayer Water Mister
---- http://shrsl.com/4he52 [Scrapbookcom]
---- https://shrsl.com/4he4z [SSS]
Distress Oxide Sprays (Speckled Egg, Peeled Paint)
---- http://shrsl.com/4hdzz [Scrapbookcom]
---- http://shrsl.com/4hdzy [SSS]
Distress Spray Stains (Tarnished Brass, Faded Jeans, Peacock Feathers, Vintage Photo, Rusty Hinge, Black Soot, Peeled Paint)
---- http://shrsl.com/4he01 [SSS]
Distress Mica Stain (Fallen Acorn)
---- https://shrsl.com/4he4q [Scrapbookcom]
---- https://shrsl.com/4he4o [SSS]
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