For the sentiment, I die cut several Take Care dies from Slate card and using the 3M spray mount, stacked them on top of one another to create a dimensional embellishment. I added this to a Wonky Rectangle of Reverse Confetti patterned paper and in turn, added to a white card base. I trimmed around the vellum flowers, used 3M spray mount on the back and attached to a Nested Circle of white card I had trimmed to nestle into the corner of the card. When viewed from the correct side, the embossing and shading adds variation to the colouring. With the base of fine lines and shading in place, the vellum was looking pretty good as it was, however, to get a bit of colour going, I took my Copic markers and added colour to the vellum. The next step is to create some highlights, and for that I didn’t have the correct tool, but as Dawn suggested in her tutorial, I used the bend of a paper clip and again on the soft side of my Spellbinders mat, rubbed the curve of the paper clip where I wanted highlights and detail. I continued tracing the lines of the flowers with the scoring tool until I had gone around the whole area. The back side is effectively the side that will be on the front of the card. Pushing the vellum with the scoring tool creates a white line, raised on the back side. Then using the Tool ‘N One and scoring tool from Spellbinders and pressing into my Spellbinders mat on the soft piercing side, I traced over the pencil lines. With a white pencil, I drew around a few of the flowers to create a small bouquet. Anyway, I’m getting ahead of myself slightly, I used a piece of vellum and laid it over the black illustrated side of the Cosmos Background cling stamp.

However, I didn’t have parchment, and I was careful and although I did go through the vellum in a couple of places – that is what sequins are for isn’t it? To hide those little mistakes LOL. I used vellum, although there is a risk of perforating the thinner weight of vellum and perhaps parchment would be a better idea. “the art of embellishing and decorating parchment paper (or vellum paper) through the use of techniques such as embossing, perforating, stippling, cutting and colouring.” The technique is also known as pergamano and is described as: That’s when I remembered a technique Dawn Woleslagle shared in the Clear & Sheer Online Card Class – dry embossing vellum. I was having great fun, but I wanted to stretch myself and try something different. I stamped it in clear embossing ink on Toned Gray card and highlighted with pencils. It looked fabulous stamped and white heat embossed on Soft Navy card.

I was sorely tempted with some no line watercolouring. How gorgeous is that large Cosmos Background cling stamp?! I tried various methods of stamping it.

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