Fancy Sentiments and Flourishes with Sara

Today's card begins with a piece of 4"x 5.25" white card stock and the new Fancy Flourishes Stencil.  I love using stencils to add pretty inked backgrounds, and texture using pastes, however, for this card, I wanted a very soft and subtle background.  I achieved that by dry embossing the stencil onto the card stock.  Every die cut machine will have a slightly different sandwich for this - so check your manual for how to emboss - usually the directions indicate how to do this with thin dies.  To emboss in my machine, I layered the platform, the tan rubber mat, my card stock, the stencil, and finally the embossing plate.  I ran this sandwich through my machine, and had a embossed panel with that beautiful flourished pattern on it.  

The next step was to heat emboss the "Congratulations" sentiment onto a 1.5"x 5" strip of vellum.  The sentiment came from the new Fancy Sentiments Stamp Set, which has a great variety of different sentiments for different occasions.  Once the gold heat embossing was done, I wrapped the vellum around the edges of embossed panel, and adhered the vellum on the back side.  

 I layered that card front onto another piece of white card stock using foam, and then added the matted card front to a top folding white card base, using more foam.  The final touch was adding a few gold pieces for decoration.