Paper Casting Window card.

So what you may ask is Paper Casting... well it's a technique I saw demonstrated at my Local Stamp Group a couple of weeks ago... I missed the beginning of the demo, but yesterday I visited Sue B and she showed it to me.   You can see her card HERE.
So when I got home I pulled out some of my Hero Arts negative stamps and decided on the Flower Bird Garden stamp to use as my mold.

Here's how it turned out....

Isn't it stunning!  I was so pleased with the result.  I trimmed around the molding and then using some Liquid Pearls "white opal" and water painted the raised parts for a shimmery shine.  I decided to make a Window card with the panel, by framing it with Spellbinders die-cut window.  I sponged the frame with Antique Linen and stamped the Envelope pattern  in the same ink.   My base is a little smaller than a normal card (something to do with not watching the size when I cut the A4 set up!)  I dry embossed the base with CB folder ~ Birds and Swirls~  The green edging was made with a Martha Steward die following the instructions in this tutorial.  Then just added some paper flowers in creams and a pearl centre.  I'm entering this into Wee Memories current challenge ~ no patterned paper~ as well as Hero Arts ~ window card~

Went out yesterday to get some adhesive ~ but the store didn't have any of the one of I wanted left!  The customer in front of me took the last one... so just had to have a look around and lo and behold.... 3 distress stains jumped into my basket!  A pink, green and blue to add to the white I already have.  Oh and a new Hero Arts stamp  - Merriest Christmas Wishes  fell in too... so fun for me over the next few days.

Hope your week is going a well as mine...  Spoke with my daughter at lunch time... I do miss her and it's great to have a quick chat every now and then. 

Cheers

Dawn 

 Edited:  thanks Betty for locating a Hero Arts link to this technique.... HERE