PE: Top 3 at the AAA Birthday challenge!
Hello and welcome! We have a new challenge at Seize the Birthday, and with a new Topping! This time, our dear team mate Glenda has given us the Topping of including ‘Texture’ in our birthday projects. But, if you are not a topping person, anytime is ‘Anything Goes’ as long as it’s a birthday theme.
I went for an easy to make card this time. And here’s what I made –
The background, full of flowery texture is actually a leftover piece from a previous experiment. If I remember right, I first misted the entire paper – its texture paper – and added some green colored distress inks – probably Shabby Shutters and Old Paper. I then used Spellbinders Splendid embossing folder to get that flowery texture.
Now this folder doesn’t add to much depth to the paper. I wanted to use sandpaper to take off some of the embossing, and reveal the white underneath, but what with the texture of the paper and the embossing not having much depth, I gave up since it was going nowhere. However, some of the white became visible, and the texture a bit more noticeable with this.
Now, this panel didn’t have much weight, neither toughness to support itself. So, I added some scrap paper below it and foam mounted it a white card base.
So, coming to the other elements of the card… I had a few leftovers from when I made swatches for all my ink pads. I stamped the flower and leaves from combining the stamp sets from WPlus9 Fresh Cut Flowers and Avery Elle Laurels stamp sets. I then trimmed them to squares of 1.25″, centering the images along the way. I also added some clear embossing on on portions of the flowers and leaves for that special touch! š
The sentiment is from Pink Fresh Studio Playful Animals 2, which also I stamped and heat embossed with clear ep. I had initially stamped the sentiment together, but then decided to separate them, and fuzzy cut them into separate pieces. Finally, I adhered all the pieces by foam mounting them over the card. I also added a couple of black gem stones to embellish.
And that finishes my card! I’m joining these challenges with it –
AAA Birthday card challenge #18: Photo Inspiration
Stamplorations 7th Birthday challenge: Linking a Celebration themed project
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge: Layer it Up
Checkout more inspiration from our amazing design team and our Surprise Party Guest, Angie Cimbalo in the Seize the Birthday challenge blog, for more examples to include texture in your cards! And don’t forget to join the fun with your own birthday project creations!
Thank you so much for stopping by!
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I am loving that everyone has been getting out their embossing folders recently as they do give such wonderful texture and they deserve to get used. I am loving this that daisy flower background it is perfect with those little square with lovely clean stamping on them xx
Thank you so much for your kind words, Hilary!
Fun layout with that textured background. Turned out awesome
Thank you Vicki!
I think your base panel has beautiful texture! Lovely blend of colours with the floral embossing. The cluster of floral images with the sentiment is perfect for it.
Thank you very much Lindsey!
Lovely background texture, and the panels are cute. Using embossing was a clever idea, and I love the effect it has.
Thank you so much sis!!
Beautiful ! Loved the look of tiny frames on the embossed bg , you are making best out of your stash Ashwini !
Thank you very much Pooja!
Oh my, love that glorious texture in the background! I also LOVE how you incorporated the sentiment… beautifully done!
Thank you so much Cris!! šš
Great that you could use this background and make it work. It is so interesting on this card as it looks like a flower field for your panels.
That’s kinda the idea I had. Glad that you see it too! Thanks Barbara!!
That’s some amazing texture in the BG, is it a watercolor card? I love how you arranged the 3 panels and the sentiment in the 4th, looks fabulous!
I guess it’s more of ink smooshing than watercoloring.
Thank you for the kind comments, Rahmat. š
I wish I had your creative brain Ashwini! Love the color and the embossed background and then the squares add so much pop with the little floral design. This is wonderful!
Maybe we can exchange our brains for a few days Nancy!! š
Beautiful card, loving your autumnal colours and all the background textures. Thanks for playing at AAA Birthday, hope to see you join in with future challenges too. Stay safe and keep crafting!
Thank you so much for your kind words, Jane!
Awesome take of the photo inspiration! Thanks for playing along with us at AAA Birthday Challenge. Looking forward to seeing your creative projects in the future galleries again.
Thank you so much Wei!
Love this!! Great colours, perfect texture, wonderful layout and I love how you did the sentiment.
Thank you so much Glenda!
This is so pretty, Ashwini! The background reminds me of a dress I had as a child – I obviously must have liked it a lot to recall it all these years later! I like the subtle grungy texture on the background panel, then the clean pops of colour on the focal squares. Just lovely!
That must have been a pretty dress! Glad my card brought back fond memories! š Thank you, Shirley!
Gorgeous textured background Ashwini, such a unique look and beautiful card, Cathy x
Thank you so much Cathy!
I love your background with all that pretty texture and the squares with the flowers really stand out against it. Great card Ashwini.
Thank you very much JoAnn!