Ooh La La - Guest Designer - Challenge #79 Tres Chic

 I was honuored to be asked to be a Guest Designer for Ooh La La Creations Challenge for May and June and here is my first card for them, this week's challenge is Tres Chic and I have used a pyramage with two papers from their Passion for Fashion CD.  It's a detailed image that called for a fairly simple background, I decided to frame it with a Marianne Creatables Die and this inspired me to try something new and finally get to grips with embossing a die cut shape, as the frame looked nothing much at all until I embossed it.  I used my Big Shot, with the following layers:  grunge paper, platform with one leaf folded back, cutting plate, die, rubber sheet, black plastic plate.  Hoorah now I just have to remember the combination :).

Other embellishments are:  Hero Arts sentiment stamp gold embossed, gemstones and roses.

My card is also for the following challenges:

One Stitch at a Time -embossing

Sparkles Forum - anything goes

Sweet Stampin' - try something new (embossing diecut, pyramage)

Sugar Creek Hollow - embossing

Do You Stack Up? - make it pop (3D)