Metallic Beautiful Friendship

Hello and welcome to my blog. The card I have to share with you today uses the Beautiful Friendship stamps and the excuisite Celestial Copper metallic ink. The lustre of the ink is superb. 
I am following The Paper Players Clean-and-Simple Challenge with a fun Marvelous Metalics theme. Clean and Simple cards have minimal layers and embellisments, open space with a simple and uncluttered feel.

I have teamed up the Celestial Copper ink with Copper Foil and copper heat embossing to emphasise the metallic theme. There is just a hint of Soft Suede too. The smaller roses are stamped in both Copper and Soft Suede inks, well actually it's a mixture of the two colours - guess who didn't clean the stamps well enough before changing colours? It did add a little lustre to the surface of the Soft Suede pad, but it cleaned up ok by wiping it with a tissue, and I'm quite pleased with the outcome. A happy accident giving a darker copper/metallic Soft Suede roses.

I have stamped on Very Vanilla card for a change, and I think it works well with the copper elements. The Beautiful Friendship stamps are DistINKtive which means that the stamps naturally give definition to the images with some areas lighter than others. The background is stamped in copper, as is the large rose stamp but the intensity of the colour is different simply because the stamps are DistINKtive. 

The sentiment is stamped on a skinny banner and heat embossed using copper powder - I love the magic of heat embossing! The base card is made of thick Very Vanilla card. The decorated layer sits on top of a copper foil layer with just a narrow border of copper showing. 

Thank you for stopping by today. I wonder, do you think I have achieved the brief?

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