Magnolia Down Under Challenge #51

Well it's Sunday and that means that there is another new challenge happening at Magnolia Down Under.  This week its another fantastic challenge, and it's:

embossing 

Now your embossing can be hot or cold its up to you!!  So if you have embossing powders or Cuttlebug folders get them out and have some FUN!!   WOW.... It has been so long since I did embossing, well heat embossing that is!! And because I hadn't done that for so long, I thought that I would do that instead of using the Cuttlebug folders!! So I have used the old gold embossing powder on my Magnolia Butterflies which are scattered across my card,   Sweet huh?

I decided that I needed to come up with some more fancy pants base cards, so this is what I come up with, I guess its a bit of a twist on a gate fold!!  This week I also really wanted to use my Ballerina Tilda - isn't she just sooooooo sweet???  Anyway my DH came up with a fab idea to kinda make her like a pop-up..... It sorta worked!!  I guess there's lots of room for improvement here, but thanx for the great idea:-)

So this is my card folded up, its a bit bulky - and not something you would shove in an envelope and stick in the post, my golly gosh, I reckon it would be totally trashed before it got to its destination!!

And this is it folded out, pretty cool huh?  I think I'm bit of a smarty pants with this one!! hehehehehe

Here we have a few more pic's at different angles so you can see all the bits and bobs I used!!

Paper: Stampin' Up Soft Suede Card stock, Webster's Patterned Paper (YUM)

Embellishments: Maroon Sheer Ribbon, Green Sheer Ribbon (Stash) i am roses: cherry blossoms, Prima Swirly Bits, Prima Butterfly Pebble, Kaiser Bling, Kindy Glitz, Moonlight Smooch, Gold Embossing Powder, White Gel Pen

Stamps: Magnolia Tilda Ballerina - Fairytale Collection 2010, Butterflies - Chasing Butterflies Collection 2009

Colour: Water Coloured with Distress Inks