Hubby wasn't quite so sure about it though....Eww... that's different for you, not sure about that. I told him, I loved it and that it was made a long time ago, I just hadn't turned the card front into a card until just now. He walked away totally unimpressed and said no more. Which was probably just as well.
A tip I would like to offer now, is to use a smooth really intense black card, this wouldn't have turned out nearly so nice if I had used the... umm.... black card on sale in most craft shops that's pretending to be black.
I think this was a card I made using a sweet poppy brass stencil, which I picked up at a craft show some years ago, it retailed at around the £7.00 mark at the time.
I used a gold embossing paste through the stencil to create this golden rocking horse, (after removing the stencil from the paste and dropping the stencil into a bowl of warm soapy water immediately to soak)
I sprinkled some ultrafine diamond glitter over the wet paste and let it set overnight. The glitter stuck well to the paste and many years later its still sticking well.
Once the paste was completely dry and had hardened off I add a small red bow to the horses harness for a pop of colour. Then mounted the black panel onto a matching red paper and gave it a very fine 1 /16th of an inch border of red before adding it to my cream 7 x 5 inch base card.
As much as I like the look and simplicity of these embossing paste cards, I do not have a lot of patience or space to spare when it comes to waiting for things to dry or set hard, the consequences have usually been a total disaster so I mostly refrain from working with these types of products . Having said that...I am tempted to give it another whirl , that is, if my embossing paste hasn't hardened in the pot!
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