As You See It Guest Designer ~ AYSI353

Today's card is yet again another special one!  This time I get to be a guest designer at As You See It Challenge!  AYSI #353 is a card recipe.  We are charged to use all five ingredients to make our cards. This was a lot of fun!  I'm really excited to see all the others that are created using the recipe.

I used mainly black and gold with a smidgen of white on my card.  I heat embossed my Charming Day flower cluster in gold embossing powder on Black cardstock.  This was my starting point.  Next, I worked on the background.  I used a piece of Gold Mercury Vellum for the background.  For the second portion of the background, I grabbed a piece of Country Woods DSP that had gray, white, and black hues in it.  I then embossed it with my Time Worn Text embossing folder.  After it was embossed, I swiped my memento black ink pad directly over the top of it to accentuate the dry embossed texture.  finally, I tore the top and the bottom portions of the paper and adhered it to the Mercury Foil.  

For the focal point, I used most of the die cuts from Charming Day and Unbounded Love in Black CS, Gold Foil DSP, and Be Dazzling DSP.  I added some Gold Mesh ribbon and some Drusy Embellishments to round out the project.  The sentiment is from Everyday Greetings.

Thanks for taking a peek, and have a blessed day!

Jenny