Gold Leaf over dry embossing ATC

The theme for 9ATC group is to Revive an Old Technique from our early days of stamping. I choose to use gold leafing in a new to me way, over dry embossing. I cut a sheet of paper made with the Fossil Stone Technique into ATC sized cards, then embossed using an embossing folder. Used a glue pad to apply glue to the raised surfaces. When the glue was tacky, spread a mixture of different colored gold leafing over the glue.

I like how this background turned out

To finish the atc, used a die cut to cut out letters to spell H O P E out of paper previoulsy inked and sprayed and adhered them to the middle of the atc. Attached a small butterfly sticker to the upper left corner.