Golden Bloom in Silver!

 My final project with the January Betterpress Society plate, Golden Bloom was a bit of an experiment for me.  Smooth paper tends to work best for both Betterpress and Glimmer, but they both worked really well on textured Bazzil cardstock!

I'm also enjoying using Betterpress inks other than just black - this is French Blue!  I really love the tone on tone.

Knowing that I wanted silver accents, I decided to try hot foiling the sentiment... so pulled out some silver foil, and gave it a try.  I am new at foiling, and it is not supposed to be ideal to foil on textured cardstock, but again - it worked beautifully!  I used my Hemstitched Rectangle die from Spellbinders to add the detail, and mounted my panel with 3D foam adhesive.  Oh - and I gave it some splatters of silver paint, but they barely show up in the photos!

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Spotlight Golden Bloom

I am sharing a couple of projects featuring the spotlight technique, used with the January Betterpress Society plate, Golden Bloom.

I started by ink blending my card bases, by masking the areas with some low tack tape, using a three-colour blend.  The first was done as a vertical stripe:

And then I did two with a masked rectangle:

The stripe panel was pressed with Betterpress Black ink, along with one of the sentiments in the set.

And the two rectangles, were pressed with Betterpress Tawny Brown ink.

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