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Thursday, October 16, 2025

CHERISH, DREAM, LIVE

Hello all,

I was playing around with ink and embossing folders a few days ago and actually created a couple of panels that I liked. This card uses one of them with the ink colors for this week's Paper Players challenge. Christie is hostess and her colors are green and purple.

The embossing folder is from SSS and is called  Magnificent Mums. I used some Letterpress paper instead of basic card stock. It's a little more porous and thicker and it certainly gave good embossing results. 

To ink it up, I used small detail blending brushes over the raised areas with GKD inks. For the solid green background, I put the panel back into the embossing folder, taping it in place with a small bit of tape runner on the back of the panel then inked the smooth side of the folder with Christmas Pine ink. This took several passes. 

The sentiments on the front and inside are from Gina K Designs. I added some gold accents in the form of twine and gold pearls.






Here's the inside.




A fun time was had and I ended up with a nice birthday card and inky green fingers!

Colleen

Supplies
Stamps: From Gina K Designs Wonderfully Made, Blooming Sunflower and Gentle Silhouettes sets for the sentiments
Paper: Gina K Designs card stock and Spellbinders Betterpress paper
Ink: Gina K Designs Dark, Medium and Light Lilac and Spruce sets, Christmas Pine
Other: Simon Says Stamp Magnificent Mums 3D Embossing Folder, Gina K Designs gold pearls, blending brushes, gold twine from the ribbon stash


3 comments:

  1. Beautiful floral card, Colleen! I love the gold accents to set off all that purple and green : ) Thanks so much for playing along with The Paper Players this week and making these colors look great!

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  2. I love the inky effect of these kinds of techniques Colleen, but as you say the inky fingers - not so much! A beautiful, bold use of this week's colours. Thank you for joining us at The Paper Players this week!

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  3. Beautiful! Lovely work with the embossing folder. Thanks for sharing with us at The Paper Players.

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