Living the Dream

Hello and welcome to my blog  :)   I have another of my 'Eastern' samples to share with you all today.  For this card I have used stamps from the Serenity and Artistic Affirmations sets; gold Soft Form Relief Paste, watercolour pens, Distress Inks, printed handmade paper, gems and a die from my stash. 

The first thing I did was to spread the gold Soft Form paste over the archway part of the stamp only and set it aside to dry.  It's best to leave the paste overnight as it needs to be completely dry before you peel it off the stamp.  I love using this paste in the way because it picks up all the beautiful fine details from the stamps.  I also used the paste on one of the sentiment stamps and let it dry.  When they were both dry I peeled them off the stamps and trimmed them with scissors.     

I stamped the same image onto white colouring card with grey ink.  I then coloured the image with watercolour pens and die cut it into a tag.  I added gold pen to the edges of the tag. 

I took a spare piece of card and die cut it into a label.  I added ink through the die and gold pen around the outer edges. Then I cut a piece of handmade paper to size.  

I matted the paper onto gold mirror card then attached it to a white basecard.  I added some tiny gems around the top of the tag then attached the golden arch to it.  

I added some larger gems to the lilly and a couple more tiny ones to the bottom af the tag.

I then took the gold sentiment and attached it to the die cut label.  I put a shadow around the words with a grey pen and added some more gems.  I then attached the label to the card.

I absolutely loved creating this card, I think this is one of my favourite stamps from these sets.  This was only my second time of using the Soft Form paste and I really love that too!  
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