Petal Parade - or is that Metal Parade?!

It's sleepover city at our house this weekend as my children wring the last pleasures out of the holidays, but that means that no-one has noticed me sneak off to fiddle about with inks and card! Come and see what I've made:

I'm fascinated by the contrast between the masculinity of the metal plate and the femininity of the stamped flowers. You may recognise those flowers - they're stamped with Stampin' Up's Petal Parade, one of the gorgeous stamp sets you can get free with a £45 order during Sale-a-bration. Oh and there's a little flower in there from Banner Blast, another of the free sets!

I think the metal plate is quite convincing but it is in fact pierced silver foil card stock. The foil shape was cut using one of the Adorning Accents edgelit dies - so easy to use these now I have my magnetic platform to hold them firmly in place as I run them through the Big Shot! I've tried to take a close up but I'm sure I'm not the only LiMette this afternoon who has found that metal finishes are the very devil to photograph!

I was inspired today by Less is More where the challenge is to use Metal on a card (I'm hoping my faux metal will pass muster!) and by this week's fabulous Colour Q colour palette (you may notice I've swapped the peachy colours for corals instead.)

HERE'S WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO MAKE THIS CARD
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Stamps: Petal Parade (free with Sale-a-bration), Express Yourself (hostess set)

Ink: Calypso Coral, Crisp Cantaloupe, Summer Starfruit, Always Artichoke

Card stock: Whisper White, Silver foil card stock

Other: Large oval punch, Adorning Accents edgelits, Big Shot, magnetic platform, Essentials piercing templates, mat and tool

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All this thinking of metal reminds me of a time my boys turned into metal detectors. We'd gone to a beach when they were small and I was lying in the sun while my boys built a sandcastle nearby. I smiled as I listened to them happily weaving stories of pirates and treasure. After a while, a note of unbridled excitement crept into their game and I looked up to find that they were digging a good deal more frantically than usual and had accumulated quite a pile of loose change - I suppose they'd been building on a site where a dad had been buried in the sand and had lost the contents of his pockets! The boys' booty probably amounted to less than a pound, but their enthusiasm for sandcastle building became quite obsessive from then on!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I'll see you very soon,