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Hi friends! I have a pretty quick and easy card to share today using some of the products from the recent Be Bold release.
It's mostly quick and easy because the background panel was premade/inked. Because I only do it every so often, when I pull out my Distress products and get inky, I tend to make a whole batch of backgrounds at once. These don't all get used right away, so I generally have a little pile to pull from when I'm creating at a later date.
I didn't want to use a plain cardstock or simple inked background, I wanted a little more texture and interest, and this pre-inked panel was just right.
I also wanted to keep the stamping pretty simple, so I placed the panel in my stamping platform and then arranged the four smaller leaves from the Dreamy Leaves set in the bottom right quadrant. You can see what it looks like below...I inserted a piece of solid cardstock so it's easier to see.
The leaves were stamped with Versafine and them embossed using Broken China Distress Embossing Glaze. I then turned my panel 180 degrees and repeated the process. I now had two embossed quadrants diagonal from one another.
Once that was done, I turned the panel 90 degrees so that the bottom right quadrant was one that didn't have any stamping/embossing in it yet. I cleaned off my stamps with stamp cleaner (important so that you don't accidentally transfer some of the Versamark when you're placing the stamps), and arranged them in that quadrant. Then I stamped/embossed, turned the panel 180 degrees, and stamped and embossed in the final quadrant.
The completed panel was popped up with foam tape, and I finished things off with the Appreciate You sentiment die which was cut from Matte Silver cardstock, adhered to the shadow die cut cut from green cardstock, and then popped up with foam tape.
That background piece really did most of the work for me on this one. I'm running low on my pre-inked panels, so it might be time to get messy again!
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