Hello and welcome to a new week! I saw some sunshine recently and I'd almost forgotten how much I enjoy it! It's been mostly cloudy and rainy here. Not as bad as some places, but enough to inhibit outdoor activities. Good thing I never tire of my happy place with all the wonderful toys tucked into every nook and cranny, every corner, every cupboard, shelf, basket and bin... you get the picture.
I recently joined the Spellbinders 2D embossing folder club. The 3D folders are amazing, but for my own practical reasons I joined 2D instead. The first folder I received is Hydrangea Blooms. It's the sweetest thing and makes a beautiful background for my Pinkfresh Hydrangea and Rose stamps.
The embossed panel was brushed with white pigment ink directly from foam pad to paper, and the dainty white frame gives the flowers a place to rest without disappearing into the background. I gold embossed the stamps and colored with Tombows. I could not seem to get a picture that did justice to the gold and all the rest at the same time, but I know your good imaginations will do the trick.
I'm now heading over to Darnell's NBUS Challenge #48 with my card and its never-before-used Hydrangea Blooms embossing folder.
Also playing along here (thank you for the reminder and invitations, Diane & Darlene):
Can You Handle the Pressure -- anything with an embossing folder. Did not use the optional rainbow twist this time.
Thanks so much for stopping by today. I do enjoy our visits!
Stamps: Pinkfresh Hydrangea and Rose with matching dies Paper: Fabriano Artistico Extra White 140 lb hot press watercolor, Neenah white, SU Almost Amethyst Ink: Versamark, white pigment Coloring: Tombow markers Other: Ranger Princess Gold embossing powder, Honeybee gems, Poppystamps Double Scallop Oval, Spellbinders Hydrangea Blooms embossing folder
24 comments:
What a beautiful frame you have created for your card. I love that gorgeous embossing folder and the gold embossed flowers. Gold can be incredibly difficult to photograph but I think everything rolls together to make a very beautiful card my friend.
Wow, what a stunningly beautiful card!! It's absolutely gorgeous and makes me yearn for warmer weather, 26 here right now as I write this! Love the new EB folder, it's a stunner and then the flowers are downright gorgeous!! I hope you enter this in our new Triple B challenge and Cany You Handle The Pressure as well!! I'm in awe!! Happy first day of Spring!!
Awesome, Leslie! Beautiful flowers both colored and embossed. Yes, sunshine is great, isn't it? We've been lacking it a fair amount here, too. (It's shining today, though!) Enjoy your new folders. I just ordered some 3D folders from Altenew that should be arriving this week. My first ones!
What a beautiful card Leslie! I love how you used that embossing folder with the white ink over top...I will have to remember that next time I get my folder out! And your gold embossed flowers look fabulous against the white oval and background...such a Spring feeling to this lovely, lovely card my friend! Hugs. :0)
Well there ya go again! LOL Inspiration overload with this beauty! Just makes me want to start embossing & coloring everything I have but then come to my senses and realize hubby would NEVER see me again! LOL
LOVE your overall design! What a clever idea to sponge the white over top of the embossed blue panel and that white frame is gorgeous! AND YET another beautiful layer with your clusters of perfectly colored flowers! Once again I'm in overload but in such a good way! LOVE IT!!
Was going to invite you to join in our Can You Handle the Pressure Embossing challenge as well as our newest Triple B challenge but see Diane beat me to it! LOL Well here's invitation #2! lol
Have an awesome 1st Day of Spring and I can't wait to see more of your beautiful designs! HUGS
We have hads a couple of really mild days lately 13c here today but very cloudy!
Gorgeous Spring card,love the beautiful flowers and fabulous embossing folder
Carol x
yes we got a little drizzle today, not real rain or enough to stop a dog walk, although little stops a dog walk - they love getting wet :)
Beautiful embossed background and frame of roses and hydrangea ♥
This is another beautiful Leslie creation! The embossing folder is delicate by itself, but your highlights with ink is perfect! I love those colors, too. (We are still alternating between rain and snow and nighttime freezes. I'm so ready for more moderate temperatures.)
WOW, those two pieces look so fab together. YOu have a great eye.
This embossing looks as deep as the 3D and so pretty with the white pigment ink on the soft lavender color! Love, love, love these gold embossed and colored flowers! Another beauty, my friend!
Wow Leslie, you did an amazing job! The card is gorgeous.
Lia DT CYHTP
another beautiful card.
Leslie, you know I love that embossing folder - what a darling stamp set to coordinate with it! Hey, I think I have that washi!
Gorgeous way to let someone know they are in your thoughts!
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Gorgeous. Love the embossing folder and the beautiful frame and flower images. I love working with flowers. Beautiful coloring. Yes, love my happy place. Spending time trying to get it organized.
What a gorgeous embossing folder and I am very happy to see that framing technique again. so effective and the pigment ink has really highlighted the embossing brilliantly. Thanks for bringing that spring feeling into my craft room. Still very grey here, but thankfully, not so cold xx
This card is another example of what you can create with embossing folders. I love how this technique looks! Your white frame is so gorgeous! Beautiful card!
Aahhh...so much Spring Beauty to enjoy and look forward to in your 2D embossed background and beautiful added floral embellishments, my friend. Wasn't today a Gorgeous Beautiful Spring day on the Oregon Coast?!? Denny pruned apple trees, I walked and started on my Spring clean up in our flower beds:-) Had fun discovering many early Spring blooming flowers..especially the dozens of beautiful blooming trilliums on our place and on my walk along the river:-) Thank you again for sharing your Spring beauty card...BTW..our Spring Beauty wildflowers are blooming too and pulmanaria and more:-) Rain back tomorrow...Love and Hugs..Nancy
Thank you for sharing your more than gorgeous card with us at Triple B and Can
Diane TB and CYHTP Co-Owner
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You already know how much I love this sweet sweet creation! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Can You Handle the Pressure challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
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This is absolutely gorgeous, you are right that the folder is a lovely compliment to your beautiful flowers, I love the touch with that single one with the sentiment too, and the sprinkling of the gems, That frame die is just a lovely touch to show off the folder and the flowers!
Pretty cool design her, fabulous backgrounds and colours , stunning exquisite card x
Oh my word, Leslie this is gorgeous! The embossing folder is amazing, love the white pigment ink brushed across the top of the embossing, really makes it pop. Your little blooms are so perfect with your Hydrangea Blooms EF, just makes me think of Spring! Will it ever get here, we still have some snow this weekend and mid next week! Thanks for sharing Leslie, another beautiful card!
What a gorgeous card, Leslie! The folder is lovely and the framing is delicate and highlights it even more. I am happy to see more of your folders from Spellbinders, enjoy the club! I always join to get just one or two that I like, then quit, but the offerings they have are fabulous. Your blooms make the whole card sing!
So stunning! a lovely card!
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