"kaleidoscope"

 Group of Seven Cardmakers is featuring a fun technique this month. Dubbed kaleidoscope technique  by Darnell, one of their designers.

It involves a gold embossed design. Then colored with inks or water colors. Then it is cut in strips and rearranged on a card front. I've used a pre made gold embossed card from SU! They are embossed on both front and back but I cut them apart and then cut them down to A2 size. Bargain deal, getting 2 cards from one. 

Here is the first one done with ink blending along the front. Then cut in 1" strips.

After assembling the strips, I glued them to a So Saffron card and added gold ginko leaves from SU! to the front. The sentiment is and old one in the stash. It is embossed with gold, glued on and anchored with a pink gem.

The second one: I colored the image with watercolor pencils and brushed with water.

The roses and leaves are from Essentials by Ellen. I winked the roses. The sentiment is again gold embossed, fussy cut and propped with foam tape.

Here is the original card base.