Last week I die cut a series of JOY die cuts from Waffle Flower's "Oversized Joy" set and created a series of cards all with different backgrounds that I had already created or started. This is my favorite of the bunch, and when I saw the Just Us Girls challenge for creating matching envelopes, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.
The background for this card had already been gold embossed. Although the stamp comes with coloring stencils, I opted to color it with Copic markers this time around. For the envelope I gold embossed just the flap of the envelope that is so much prettier in real life than in the photo.
The Waffle Flower set comes with many different sub-sentiments and this one was gold embossed on black and trimmed out. The gold "joy" was die cut from my favorite gold metallic paper that I purchase at Michaels in the scrapbook department. It's resting on a die cut shadow cut from vellum.
Here's a look at the beautiful textured gold paper. This is off to JUGS as the challenge closes tonight. I've been inspired, though, so I think you'll see more matching envelopes.
