Good morning, y’all! Hope your weekend is going well! I’ve discovered that when 65 year old me decides to medium-deep clean the kitchen, make sourdough pizza AND sourdough bread AND do a card video all on one single Saturday – that 65 year old me is…whooped at the end of the day! So today for me is…recover! Which might include watching a few episodes of Bridgerton. I FINALLY started watching it and now, of course, I’m hooked! LOL!
Today’s card uses my favorite Fern & Flora 3D Embossing Folder two different ways – along with the coordinating Fern & Flora bundle – to make a pretty thank you card! Take a look-see:
Doesn’t it look like it’s glowing!? That’s the Lemon Lime Twist!
I started by using Small Blending Brushes to lay down color on a Basic White panel. I used Lemon Lime Twist, Garden Green and Granny Apple Green.
With the color in place, I put the panel into the Fern & Flora 3D Embossing Folder. I used some sticky note tape to secure the panel in place in the folder – adhering it to the side of the folder WITHOUT the printed logo. Then I ran it thru the Stampin’ Cut and Emboss Machine.
I opened the folder – leaving the panel exactly where it was – and used my Secret Sea ink pad to add color to the side of the folder WITH the logo. Note: you can angle the pad and scrape the edge across the folder but…that didn’t give me as much color as a wanted. So… I patted the folder with the flat ink pad – and that worked great! 🙂
I closed the folder and ran it back thru the Stampin’ Cut and Emboss Machine.
Then I cut the panel down to the 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″ that I wanted and adhered it to a Lemon Lime Twist mat with Liquid Glue. I adhered that panel to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
I tied a bow with Linen Thread and adhered it with a little Liquid Glue.
On a piece of Basic White cardstock, I stamped a Fern & Flora frame in Lemon Lime Twist. Inside, I stamped the sentiment in Secret Sea ink. Then I cut it out with the coordinating die in the set. I adhered the sentiment over the bow with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
On a piece of Basic White, I stamped the little moth from the set three times in Secret Sea ink. I colored them with Pool Party and Daffodil Delight Stampin’ Blends and cut them out with their die in the set.
I adhered them to the card front with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Using the Dark Granny Apple Green Stampin’ Blend, I colored five Antique Pearls. I added them to the card and the card front was done!
On the inside, I stamped a second Fern & Flora sentiment in Secret Sea ink on a Basic White panel. In the corner, I stamped the large fern in Lemon Lime Twist and again in Granny Apple Green ink.
I used Liquid Glue to adhere the panel to the inside of my Secret Sea card base, popped the card front on with Black Stampin’ Dimensionals and the card was done!
My Basic White Medium Envelope got the Fern & Flora fern in Lemon Lime Twist and Granny Apple Green on the front…
…and a piece of Secret Sea Two-tone Cardstock – embossed in the Fern & Flora 3D Embossing Folder! – on the envelope flap.
Et Voila! I am so glad that the Fern & Flora 3D Embossing Folder is back in stock – it’s so beautiful and for sure one of my faves of all time! I love it just embossed on a plain panel but…it’s amazing with this blackout technique. Or – should I say Secret Sea-out!? Isn’t Secret Sea just…the bestest!? The Fern & Flora bundle is amazing, too – with the sentiments and pretty stampable and die cuttable images!
If you’d like to recreate this card, all the products and card cuts you’ll need are down below! And – this is the card I made on yesterday’s Saturday Nite YouTube Live Video. If you’d like to see it – for the first time or again – here ’tis:
I’ve also created a printable PDF with written instructions and a list of the products used to create this project. You can download, print and/or save it by clicking this image:
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TTFN
M
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Card Cuts Used in This Project:
Secret Sea Cardstock: 4 1/4″ x 11″ (card base, scored and folded at 5 1/2″)
Lemon Lime Twist Cardstock: 3 3/8″ x 3 3/8″ (mat for colored embossed panel); 4″ x 5 1/4″ (mat for card front)
Basic White Cardstock: 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″ (colored embossed panel); 3 7/8″ x 5 1/8″ (card front); stamped & die cut label (sentiment); 4″ x 5 1/4″ (inner liner)
Secret Sea Two-Tone Cardstock: 2 1/4″ x 6″ (envelope flap)
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Finn Fan Fix 
Most of my mornings start like this.
It works for us both pretty darned good. Only problem – and it’s a “me” problem – is that it makes it even harder to get my hindquarters up and on the treadmill.
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TTFN
M
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