Sunflower 3D Embossing Folder

I still remember the first time I embossed a piece of plain white card stock…and the feeling of WOW this is amazing!! And the Sunflower 3D embossing folder is definitely a WOWer! I love that it’s a 6x6” folder so that you can place your A2 sized panel anywhere in the folder and get different angles of the flowers based on where you want your focal flower(s) to be.

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:

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 project💕) 

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: 

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:

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 creative💕

Petal Park -Trio of birthday cards

Ever have one of those months when you need a surprising number of cards? That's how September has been! I discovered that I needed 8 birthday cards this month! I've been playing with the Petal Park stamp set and punch lately and while I usually avoid solid stamps, I decided to try the trio of solid flowers in the Petal Park stamp set. Here are the cards I created:

The first one, on the left is the simplest of the cards. Just one mat under the focal layer. And only the trio of flowers punched and added on top. Even the sentiment was stamped on the card front itself. I liked how it turned out so I decided to keep working on it. Here’s a close up of that first card:

Second was the card on the bottom, in Calypso Coral. Similar to the first card but I embossed the top layer using the Exposed Brick 3D Embossing Folder. Then I decided to stamp the greeting and punch it out with the Double Oval punch and added a simple twine bow:

Last is the card on the right with a split design of flowers along the top and bottom with the greeting stamped in the middle. Highland Heather and Fresh Freesia along with Coastal Cabana colors. Love that combination:

If you received one of these cards from me for your September birthday, I hope you liked the card! As always, I had fun making them. Thanks for stopping by & have a wonderful day!