Wire Wrapture: Shine on us

The last year or two, I have saved some commercial Christmas cards that we have received from other people because they are just too pretty to throw away. From time to time, I get a chance to use pieces of those cards to create other cards. It's so easy and fun that it seems like cheatin! But I guess it is really no different than using a pre-printed image or topper. Anyway, I was cleaning up my crafting area and thought it might be fun to just randomly use some of the things that were on my desk rather than putting them away. I started with this blue card base; it was already cut to size I just had to score it. Then I went looking for a blue themed Christmas card from my stash and I found this one. The picture is so large that at first I wasn't sure I would be able to add a sentiment without covering up a big portion of the image. Then I came upon the genius idea of heat embossing the sentiment directly onto the image. I first die the the part of the image I really wanted with a stitched rectangle die. Then I heat embossed the sentiment with gold embossing powder and it turn out sooooo beautiful!! I wasn't sure how it would emboss on the shiny surface, but it is perfect!