Nov 30 2007
Metallic Cardstock….
I love copper metallic cardstock. So rich looking, warm and just a little unique from gold and silver. I found an unopened package of it in my closet earlier in the week and thought it would make a great Ways to Use It Challenge. It was a busy week but I worked hard Wednesday night coming up with a card for Thursday’s challenge. Alas…the best laid plans of mice and men. 
I managed to pry the laptop from my teenager’s grasp today…picture big argument here LOL…but I prevailed and I have INTERNET today! 
I’m hoping my own computer with all my files will be fixed today. This laptop takes twice as long as I’m not familiar with it. But hey…I’m not complaining here! What I do need help with….resizing photos in Photoshop Elements….I just can’t figure it out!
Anyone? Please?!
Copper Christmas
This card has a very traditional Christmas look. Love this Flourished Christmas tree! It is stunning. Packaged in the same set with my favorite reindeer and some beautiful sentiments…this is one of my favorite Christmas sets. One of those ones that always looks good and is easy to use. To keep things a little fresh…I paired up the Copper with a new color combo….Soft Sky, Taken with Teal and Copper cardstock. I like to revisit looks with a slightly updated approach to see if it works. I like it…what do you think?
One of the things I love to do best with this copper cardstock is to emboss it with my Cuttlebug embossing folders. Its heavy paper holds the texture well and the embossing really picks up the light…adding to the shimmer of the cardstock. I ran this piece of copper through my favorite embossing folder…snowflakes. LOL I really do have a lot of favorites here today, don’t I? The copper layer was matted with a thin mat of Taken with Teal and mounted onto a card base of Soft Sky.
For the main image….I stamped my flourished tree onto soft Sky cardstock and then embossed it with Copper embossing powder. This powder is by SU which no longer carries it so I’m going to do a copper ep hunt soon! The sentiment was stamped along the bottom of the design with Taken with Teal ink and the same ink was used to sponge the edges of this layer. After matting with a 1/8″ larger mat of Taken with Teal…I added a 1/4″ mat of white cardstock behind that. Before adhering together, I used my ticket corner punch from Stampin Up to notch the edges for added interest. For my final touch…a knotted scrap of May Arts ribbon was adhered with a glue dot to the tree.
Have a great day!
Don’t forget to join us tomorrow 10am EST at Cornish Heritage Farms for the birthday celebration and release of the new backgrounders…it is sure to be a lot of fun.
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I find it’s easiest in Elements to use the “Save for Web” option under the file menu. Click on “Save for Web”, then use the boxes that show the pixel dimensions to reduce the photo to 480 x 640 (or something close to that). Click “Apply”, then “Save”. The original picture is still on your screen and you can close it, choosing “No” when it asks you if you want to save the changes you made. HTH!
Gorgeous card, Julia — so elegant!!! That color combination is terrific!
Beautiful card! Copper and teal are one of my favourite colour combos. I will be making something similar to this later today with a CB folder too! Have a great day!
Gorgeous card, J! I love that Flourish tree!! As for resizing, I do the same thing as Jan. Under File, choose Save for Web. Then where it says New Size, change the width (I use about 450 for tall cards and 550 for long cards…I think). Make sure the “Constrain Proportions” box is clicked. That way you don’t have to mess with the other numbers. Click Apply, then Ok to name your file.
This is very pretty. You are right…. that thicker paper really embosses well!!
How absolutely georgous, thank you for sharing.. Jodi
Oooo, this is sooo gorgeous. I just love copper - should use it more.
Love the blues with the copper, this is Beautiful!
STUNNING! Thanks for sharing your talent & inspiration w/us!
Great card…so elegant looking. I love copper too for the same reasons. I love that flourish tree stamp; so old fashion looking. How lucky to have ribbon that maches so well!
Oh that card is just stunning! Love the shimmer of the embossed metallic cardstock and the color combo completely blows me away!!
Cool color combo, Julia! Everyone seems to be going wild with that snowflake embossing folder lately! I might have to dust mine off, too, LOL!!
Oh so beautiful!
This is so gorgeous!! I love the tree and snowflake embossing!
I love metallic cs too! I picked some up from Michael’s last week - mine’s gold though! I thought it might go well with some Christmas cards I’m planning on making! Love your card Julia!
This is absolutely gorgeous, I keep going back and looking at this, I think for next year I may have to have this tree!
Karen W