Simply dry and wet embossing for Christmas

For the theme for August 25th club on BF forum, Joanne gave us this inspiration picture:

So I thought it was about time that I got started on the August cards - the days of the month are slipping away fast already. I used my newly acquired PM baubles embossing folder run through my cuttlebug. I used some copper pearlescent card for the embossing and then slightly sanded it in places and swiped a brillance galaxy gold ink pad over the whole surface. I then covered it with clear embossing powder and heated. Sadly, you can't get the proper look of it on here and it's too dull to take a photo without flash. The use of the embossing powder over the whole surface obviously has added a sheen to it, which has a subtle gold look over the copper.

I then mounted this on to old gold pearlescent card.

This is also for:

Fiskarettes Monday challenge: 'embossing' - dry and wet embossing
Wild flower Wednesday 26: 'embossing' - dry and wet embossing
Our creative corner: 'it's embossable' - dry and wet embossing
Sundays with Crissy 7: 'Christmas in July' (yes, I know it's August now, but the challenge continues)
'Tellen's place: 'Christmas in July'
Ann's creative nook 100: 'Christmas in August'
Moving along with the times 58: 'Christmas'
Meljen's 19: 'clean and simple'
Totally stampalicious: 'single layer' - no stamping involved, but I did use ink pad and EP
No time to stamp 151: 'one layer cards'
Paper jewels 6: 'monochromatic'
Delightful: 'distressing'
Alota 40: 'distress'