Do you want to add a bit of texture to the background of your card?  Do you sew or stitch? Or not?  Either way, this embossing folder works great in either the embossed or debossed side.

On a piece of Altenew watercolor paper I embossed the design with the folder.  I want to practice and learn more with watercolors so I decided I would try a rainbow affect.  With Altenew watercolor paints I first wet a row of the embossed design then added in some pigment going down in rainbow order.  I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it so I just went ROYGBIV overall and figured I’d go from there.

I tried lots of different ways to layout a design and finally took the Nestabilities Deckled Rectangles Etched dies and cut out a piece from the ROY part and from the GBIV part of the paper.  Playing with it still, I dropped a random white die cut on it and thought — oooo, that white looks good on the darker GBIV piece.  From Simon Hurley’s Floral Stems Etched dies I cut one of the long-stemmed flowers from white cardstock.  To keep with the rainbow theme, I cut out a piece of holographic paper with the deckled rectangles also.

Now the layout was getting easier and easier to see how pieces would fit together.

For the first panel over the card base, I debossed a plain white card panel with 80# Neenah Solar white cardstock.  This folder is great on both sides.

This was looking very bright and cheery so I thought it would make a great birthday card.  The sentiment comes from the Thanks Enclosed set of dies.  I cut it out 4 times and layered three of them.  I added some glossy accents but didn’t like it so I just added the fourth die cut on top when the accents were still tacky and it became my glue.

With the white flower to the left of the Happy Birthday, popped up with foam squares, the layout and card was complete!

Sometimes it takes awhile to find what you like. Sometimes what you started with you don’t like. Yet, if you walk away and come back to it, it will take on a new life and is so much better than you expected. In the end, I really like this card but it did have to grow on me in fits and spurts. What do you think? Have you ever had that experience? Feel free to share with me on Facebook or Instagram your thoughts.

Thanks for visiting today. Please come back again.

HUGS, PENNY

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