Embossing Mania!

I've signed up for a swap on ccswaps where we are to make something using embossing. A great reason to try out the Textured Cuttlebug Cards technique on saw on Adrienne's and Annette's blogs. Annette has a fantastic tutorial, check it out, because I ended up doing my own twist, and you don't want to miss what she did.
I didn't want to do a stamped image in the central, so I embossed 5 papers, using a different Cuttlebug embossing folder with each one.

I stacked the five papers, and tore them together into 5 section.
Then mix up the sections to get 5 pieces with parts of each of the different designs on each one.
I adhered the pieces to another sheet of paper, trying to overlap the edges a bit. Then covered the whole surface with gesso and let it dry.
I colored a couple of papers with 3 colors of metallic Lumiere paints with my fingers.

Then I covered the whole sheet with a light layer of copper.
While it was still wet, I rubbed off some of this top layer. I added more gold, etc as it was need to cover areas I rubbed too much paint off with my finger.
I added powdered embossing powder to the raised areas and heat set. I thought it would be fun to use both the embossing folders and the powders for the embossing swap.
Because the Lumiere paint tends to chip when folded, I sanded it off the edges and covered the exposed areas with coffee bean Brilliance ink.
I used these two sheets to make an ATC holder book for the swap. Here is the finished front cover:

I liked this sheet of Lovely Layers paper I made, for the inside covers of this book because of the fun embossing powders I used in the class I took.

Back cover:
I colored the third sheet with Luminere paints like the other sheets, except this time I covered the whole sheet with VersaMark ink and embossed with Iridescent Sparkle embossing powder and heat set.
I trimmed the edges, colored the edges with coffee bean Brilliance ink and made this card.

I decided to try something different with the last two pieces. I sprayed some yellow (with gold perfect pearls) & red homemade color mists over the paper and used a brush with some orange homemade mist to blend the colors.
After they dried I pressed a VersaMark pad over the tops and heat embossed a couple of different glittery blue embossing powders.
I trimmed the pieces and made these two cards. I wish the image in the first card (done on acetate) was a bolder design. Might revisit if before sending out.