Country Floral Embossing Folder with the Painted Seasons DSP

Every now and then, Stampin' Up! will bring out a tool that lifts your crafting to a new level of beauty! They have certainly done that with their latest releases of Sale-A-Bration Rewards. In the second release they brought us the Country Floral Dynamic Embossing Folder and it is the most exquisite embossing folder I've seen for a long time, even over the Lace or the Ruffled or the Tufted folders. What's even better is that you can earn it for free with a $60 order!

I've used it and paired it with the lovely Painted Seasons Designer Series Paper that you can also earn with a $60 order in the third release of Sale-A-Bration Rewards, in a sample card that will be one of the projects for my Technique Night classes. The technique that we're using with this card is using a brayer with an embossing folder.

• I started with a base of Balmy Blue and added a 5 1/4" x 4" piece of the Painted Seasons Designer Series Paper with the blue and green succulent plants.
• I took the Country Floral Dynamic Embossing Folder,  and used a brayer to coat the debossed side of the folder with Pool Party ink. I then spritzed my Whisper White paper lightly with water and inserted in the folder and ran it through the Big Shot. This gave me a background of Pool Party ink. I then sponged the raised sections of the embossed cardstock with Lemon Lime Twist and Grapefruit Grove to get the look you see in the photo.
• This panel was mounted on a backing of Lemon Lime Twist cardstock and adhered to the card front. The sentiment is from Home to Roost, another SAB Reward, and is stamped on a Whisper White flagged strip in Balmy Blue. The Grapefruit Grove DSP strip underneath is just a small piece of the reverse side of same DSP pattern as the background panel.
• The little sprigs behind the the sentiment are die cut with the Butterfly Beauty Thinlit Dies, from Soft Sea Foam card stock.
• I tied a bow from some Whisper White 5/8" Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon and added it with a Glue Dot to the sentiment panel.

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Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Home To Roost Cling Stamp Set [149736] $0.00	Painted Seasons Designer Series Paper [149574] $0.00	Balmy Blue 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146982] $11.50	Lemon Lime Twist 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [144245] $11.50	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730] $13.25
Soft Sea Foam 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146988] $11.50	Balmy Blue Classic Stampin' Pad [147105] $10.25	Pool Party Classic Stampin' Pad [147107] $10.25	Lemon Lime Twist Classic Stampin' Pad [147145] $10.25	Grapefruit Grove Classic Stampin' Pad [147142] $10.25
Whisper White 5/8" (1.6 Cm) Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon [146912] $10.25	Stamping Sponges [141337] $4.75	Sponge Brayers [141714] $11.00	Country Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [149698] $0.00	Butterfly Beauty Thinlits Dies [148536] $53.00
Big Shot [143263] $150.00	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.50	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50	Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.50

Share What You Love Time Limited Bundles

This is the last week and a half for you to be able to take advantage of the early release bundles of the Share What You Love Suite. You will still be able to buy all these products when the new catalogue is released June 1, but you will not be able to earn the free gifts provided with each of the three bundles. And the Just Getting Started bundle and the A Little More Please bundle are both in low inventory, meaning they could sell out soon, so it would be a good idea to get your orders for those in ASAP. I'll show the flyers at the end of this blog post for your information along with how to order.

In the meantime, I want to show you another sample I made for our last Technique Night class where we focussed on this Share What You Love suite. You can find the other two cards we worked on here and here.

This card uses two of the Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper designs with a Rich Razzleberry and Crumb Cake palette.

• The two pieces of Share What You Love Specialty DSP overlap slightly on the card and are embellished with a  7" piece of the Rich Razzleberry Velvet Ribbon tied with a piece of the Nature's Twine* in Blackberry Bliss, one of the new colours in our colour revamp. Using the watercolour background stamp from the Love What You Do stamp set as an Old Olive background, the sentiment from the same set was stamped in Rich Razzleberry over top. I did stamp off the background stamp once before stampin' it on the cardstock.
• It's a little hard to see here, but I took the small bunch of flowers and the leaf sprig stamps, and stamped them in Versamark over top of this sentiment, covered them with Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder and heat set them with the Heat Tool. It just provides a little extra subtle interest. Then I punched out the shape with the Everyday Label Punch.

*New products from the 2018/19 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue available to purchase starting June 1, 2018.

• On the back of this label, using adhesive and Glue Dots, I attached a piece of leftover  Pearlized Doily that I had turned over to the flat-finished side and brayered with Rich Razzleberry ink, trimming it to fit properly. It was actually the doily piece that I had left over from this project. I used the Sponge Brayers to do the brayering. I love what a great job they do. I also attached a couple of vellum leaves punched out with the Leaf Punch, and another couple of leaves punched out of Old Olive cardstock using an old Martha Steward Leaf Punch that I have.
• This whole ensemble was glued to a Crumb Cake oval, die cut with the Layering Ovals Framelits and that again was popped up on Stampin' Dimensionals to the card front.

 To order, click on my On-Line Store, and go to Share What You Love Suite and choose the bundle you want, enter it in your shopping cart and check out as a guest or open an account. It will be shipped right to your door. Or contact me and I will place an order for you.

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today. 

Product List

Love What You Do Photopolymer Stamp Set [148042] $27.00	Share What You Love Specialty Designer Series Paper [146926] $36.75	Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101856] $10.00	Rich Razzleberry 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [115316] $10.00	Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100702] $10.00
Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650] $11.25	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953] $10.00	Pearlized Doilies [146936] $6.00	Versamark Pad [102283] $11.25	Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder [109130] $6.75
Rich Razzleberry Classic Stampin' Pad [126950] $8.50	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [126953] $8.50	Rich Razzleberry 1/4" (6.4 Mm) Velvet Ribbon [147016] $11.00	Embossing Buddy [103083] $8.00	Heat Tool [129053] $40.00
Sponge Brayers [141714] $10.75	Everyday Label Punch [144668] $23.50	Leaf Punch [144667] $21.50	Layering Ovals Framelits Dies [141706] $46.00	Big Shot [143263] $136.00
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $5.25	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332] $9.00	Glue Dots [103683] $7.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.25

Nature's Twine (Blackberry Bliss)*

Martha Stewart Leaf Punch**

*New products from the 2018/19 Stampin' Up! Annual Catalogue available to purchase starting June 1, 2018.

**Non-Stampin' Up! products