Embossed Enamel. . . . . . . . .

The challenge over at the Craft Barn is to produce a piece using embossed enamel and/or mica flakes.

As some of you may have noticed, I love embossing powders and already own a number of the Stampendous! Frantage Enamels. I like the varying tones within each shade and all the metallic elements they contain. I also really favour them because they are chunkier than other powders and can be used very successfully when applied in a more random fashion - like I tend to favour. My sister Sandie does the most amazingly precise, beautiful embossing but try as I might, I fail to achieve her perfection and find that these particular powders are more forgiving for my style. 

I can't believe I only needed to take three photos this time. Including the matting, I only used four elements or layers this time and that must be a record for me!

Here's the card I made for my entry at The Craft Barn this time:

The completed card. I've left it without a sentiment so one can be added at a later date to suit any occasion.

The 'red' layer was developed using layers of distress inks and various stamped TH  images. I watched Neil at the Craft Barn Extravaganza on Saturday doing this and had to rush home and have a go!
The main floral images were stamped with coffee archival, bleached with a water brush and inked with a highlighting shade of distress ink.

The die cut flowers are a Memory Box die which Karen used on the Craft Barn blog and I fell in love with it. (Bought with a thank you voucher from my lovely Sister and Niece!). The flower end of the die cuts were stamped with olive archival then the whole die cut was inked with distress. I applied clear embossing ink to the die cuts using some sequin waste. Aged green embossing enamel was then scattered over and heated gently. See the next photo for a more detailed image of this.

The embossing enamel can be seen clearly here in a vaguely circular design - from the sequin waste. I wanted to achieve a random effect with the powder hence the reason for using the sequin waste.
The edges of the main card were inked with walnut distress but I decided that the other two looked better left 'nude' - unbelievable for me I know!! Sometimes, as they say, less is more!
The final task was to cut white and kraft card layers and assemble the card. I did think to cut the long stem but decided that I liked the way the image was coming out of the main display area so I left it.

Short and sweet from me this time - hope you like it!