Touch of Midas

 Last night there was another zoomclass by

  Michael Strong.

The theme of the class was:

A touch of Midas.

This was because on all the cards gold paper and gold

embossing powder was used. 

I will share with you all the cards we made:

Mine are not exactly as the ones Mike showed and sharded,

because I did not rceive a package of cards from Mike.

Not because it is late, but because here in the Netherlands

we have to pay extra VAT on packages from outside the EEG.

So on top of the zoomclass fee I had to pay an extra $7.

This makes these cards way to expensive. So...the solution

is that Mike sends me instructions via email and I use all

my own papers and stamps I have.

For this card the Silhouette Panel stamps where used

and a wide ribbon (one from my stash).

Behind iets panel there is a square of black, just a litte

larger than the stamped square.

For this card (we made the black one in class) the new mirror

image octagon stamp was used (not on the cataloge yet)

Stamp the image twice on black and one on white paper

both embossed in gold. Cut out and devide through

 the middle square. Great guy card!

So for this card you do not need any stamp (even though 

you see the small flower stamp - my own addition).

The left card is the one we did in class. It should have 

a real nice gold ribbon with leaves, but i did not have anything

like it in my stash, so I added the flower in the middle.

As from the instructions I was not sure of the grid measurements

(1 1/4 squares), I made the smaller squares and the blue version

is my own with little blue dots scattered over the grid.

The tiny squares are punched out of a piece of embossed

gold paper.

For the left card I used one of the accent stamps and the small flower.

Both embossed with gold on gold paper and cut out.

The background design and green paper are from my stash.

Instead of a ribbon that was used on the original card, I used 

this beautiful wool from my stash as well as some sticky glitter

accents.

The right card was the easiest card. I received these panels to

print and cut out to attach on top of each other with some foam

tape. Around the flowers I used a gold pen (not very visble on the photo).

Out of my own I added the gold ribbon and the sentiment (Dutch for

gett well).

               So this card is inspired by Mike's card, but I had to make

 the background myself. And the circle should be a hand stamp,

 but I did a lot of searching through my stamps 

(I have it!!), but could not find it.

For the background I used several distress oxide inks and then I

used the stencil (Mike's design by Club Scrap) and on top I

stamped Mike's handstamp that wass issued 11 years ago for

a retreat by Club Scrap, where Michael was a guest designer.

The kit of this retreat was called Connection and came with wonderful

papers, this stencil and more rubber stamps.

The round circle stamp (matching the stencil) is from the set 

Cloisonné Medaillions.

Feel free to come over to our Facebookgroup for more

information:

EnjoyMichaelStrongStampgroup.

Thank you very much for looking.

Stay safe and keep crafting.