Tuesday Morning Sketches #705

 Hello!  Thank you for stopping by.  The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and I think it's a lovely sketch.

You all know that I became obsessed with my Essential Arches dies from Spellbinders.  Well, I'm still obsessed and still playing with them.  My card also features Dendrobium Orchids dies from Altenew.  O is for orchids - this is the next letter in the alphabet that just got mailed.

This is a tri-fold card.  The front is cut out using the Essential Arches die and then I hot foiled a sentiment onto some acetate that can be heat embossed.  The foil is this lovely shade of purple.  I also embossed the card to give a small amount of texture and then using some dies from the Clocks & Cogs collection from Tonic Studios and lacey border die from Crafter's Companion I decorated the front.  My intent was to make this look like the orchids were under a glass dome so I added a couple of drops of Crystal Drops for the handle.  This didn't work out so well, it looks like I made a mistake.

Then you open the card - this is where I adhered the orchids to a piece of foiled and inked poly-glaze sheet from Gina K.  I foiled it in the same purple, so you know it's the foil made for hot foiling and not right for this - but it turned out so cool!  After I foiled it, I covered it up with black ink and then buffed it.  It looks so neat!!

The orchids, I smooshed on ink colors starting out darker and gradually getting lighter, onto some Bristol Smooth card stock.  Let that dry and then die cut the pieces.  I got a couple of them wrong, but who can tell?!  This layer will open to the right to reveal the inside for personalization.

 Here's a close up of that hot foiled sentiment.  It's so hard to photograph foiled things!

I hope my card inspires you and that I'll see you over at the TMS blog.  Be sure to leave some love for the team!