Anglaise Broderie background congratulations card

Hello everyone, 

Today I am sharing a sweet and elegant design using a matching stencil and die combo for the background with an added rosette feature for that delicate touch. This card is not only great for weddings but can be given to congratulate the recipient for their achievements or for an arrival of a new baby. 

TUTORIAL: 

I start by taping the  Doily Stencil on to some A5 sparrow grey card stock and spreading some embossing paste on as evenly as I can. Then I carefully remove the stencil to reveal the stencilled design before I quickly clean my tools and stencil, I then pour some gold embossing powder onto the wet stencilled paste, making sure I’ve covered all the sides of the patterns and I left the paste for a couple of hours to completely dry before heat setting it (letting the paste dry before applying heat will prevent bubbling).

Next I die cut the Doily Nested Dies from some grey Sparrow card stock, then I die cut some foam sheet and gold glitter with the outline die. I layered the Glitter on top of the foam then the doily on top of the glitter before I adhere the foam panel onto the centre lining up the stencil background design. 

I then created the rosette feature with some some vellum (Check out Claina’s video for detailed instructions on how to assemble a rosette.) and placed the feature in the centre of the die cut doily. I created another paste embossed stencilled disc for the top layer of the rosette, applying a few layers of foam tape to avoid having a dip in the centre. 

Lastly I stamped and gold heat embossed a sentiment onto some banners and adhered some ivory rose embellishes to the embossed discs to add some floral detail and mat the design onto a stitched square base before I attached the completed design onto some white 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 square card base. 

If you ever give this card a go, let me know your thoughts on heat embossing over a paste. My thoughts are, even though it’s a well practiced technique it’s new to me and I love how the stencilled design looks and the dimension it gives is so much more raised and defined, I am beginning to do this more often whenever I chose to stencil my backgrounds. 

x Ali x 

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_{Disclaimer: This card is created as part of my DT work, the Anglaise Broderie Nested  Dies and Stencil set featured are sponsored by Claina Palmer Designs. Other Products used to produce this card are my own purchased items and will be linked and highlighted (if available).}