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Sue and Kerri-Ann are back at Hochanda HQ this week with a sparkly Imagination Crafts One Day Special. To give you a sneak peek at what's to come they kindly put together the step-by-step of how to create this lovely, sentimental card. You Will Need; Imagination Crafts Large 6 x 6 (152mm x 152mm) Poinsettia Stencil Imagination Crafts Starlight Paints, Bronze, Chestnut, Pink Brown and Silver Gold from the   Autumn Gold Starlight Paint Kit Imagination Crafts ‘Just Pearls’ Gold Imagination Crafts Repositionable Stencil Tape Ink Applicator or Cut n Dry Foam or a piece of dense make up sponge Pot of Gold Shine Sparkle Medium 1 Piece of Acetate cut to 6" x 6" (152mm x 152mm)   1 Piece Celtic Dream Card from Imagination Crafts Card Bundle 1 7" x 7" folded white card Sentiment Greeting for inside card of your choice, either stamp or die cut Magi-Bond High Strength Glue Damp wet wipe Step 1  Tape Stencil down onto acetate around all 4 sid...

In my last post, I shared some experiments I had done with Starlights paints, from Imagination Crafts.  These are so scummy, but I wanted to finish a project for you as well.  Here's the above card. I started by embossing a plain piece of scrap white card.  Isn't it wonderful when you can turn a piece of scrap card into something so pretty.  I used a sponge to gently sweep the paint over the top of the embossed card, it just highlights the embossing and emphasis the detail.  Look at the sheen on the card!  Isn't that attractive. I then cut a frame out of white card and then gold card, which I glued together.  I decorated the frame with Christmas flowers I then painted a piece of scrap card with the White Gold paint, and blasted it dry with my heat gun.  When it was dry, I used a rub-on sentiment.  I cut this down and matted and layered gold, then red.  I really like this sentiment topper - and all the colours...