There are so many fun techniques you can use with this: coloring a white card stock panel with sponge daubers, markers, pencils, and brayers. You can tear the embossed panel and of course embossed a colored panel of card stock. For my first play with this folder I decided to use sponge daubers for a softer look:
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I used the small sponge daubers that fit over your finger tip, and these ink colors:
- Pecan Pie
- Daffodil Delight
- Garden Green
- Calypso Coral and
- Poppy Parade
And I wanted to use a frame to focus on a particular sunflower — the Textured Notes Dies were perfect for that!
Tip: I attached two of the dies together using a post it note and ran the dies with Daffodil Delight card stock through the Cut & Emboss machine. That resulted in a perfect frame for the floral focal (and an extra inner rectangle which will be used on a future projectđź’•)
Tip: I attached the “frame” to the card base using Adhesive Strips (item#141825). These are thinner than the 6-sided Dimensionals foam stickers and come in a sheet of long strips that you can easily cut down to the size you need. These also make shaker cards so easy to make!!
Since you can never have too many birthday cards, I chose a simple die cut and Happy Birthday sentiment. To finish off the front of the card, I added some opaque gems in colors that matched the card front. Here’s the full card front:
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The inside is always the last thing and I try to embellish the inside of my cards somehow, with either a scrap strip of patterned paper or a stamped image. I found the perfect sunflower-looking leaf from the Friendly Hello stamp set, a Salebration freebie from a few years back, and stamped it in Garden Green:
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That’s it for my first Sunflower Embossing Folder card! Plenty of future ideas but as always, so little time! Thanks for spending some time reading this blog & hope you’re inspired to do something creativeđź’•
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