Altenew Ambridge Bouquet

 

For today's card I used the Ambridge Bouquet 3D embossing folder by Altenew. What a gorgeous image this creates! 

I wanted to highlight all the crevices, so I took Tea Dye Distress Ink and rubbed it over the top of the embossing folder. Altenew prints the name of the folder on the front of the folder, which is so helpful. This is the side I inked, the raised areas of the flowers. So when I ran it throught my Big Shot, the ink is pressed into the paper. Tea Dye is a light pinkish brown color (exactly what you'd expect tea dye to look like). 

I pressed some Spun Sugar Distress Ink onto my glass mat and dipped a wet paintbrush into the ink and painted the areas of the petals where the Tea Dye ink was. This gives a hint of pink onto the flowers at the base but the tip of the petals are kept white. This is a very easy way to color, just start at the base of each petal and pull the ink toward the top.

When I was done, I fussy cut the bouquet out (in one piece). I carefully lined it back up into the embossing folder and reran it through my Big Shot to press the edges (where I fussy cut) back down. The water from painting flattens the paper a bit, so this helps reshape the image. This isn't really necessary but I think it's a nice step. 

For the base, I just cut a piece of cream cardstock to 5 3/4" square, stamped some leaves from an old Altenew set called Wallpaper Art in Shabby Shutters Distress Oxide Ink. I placed a few Pinkfresh gems on the panel and popped the flowers up with fun foam.

Here's what I used (with clickable links):

The Altenew Ambridge Bouquet Embossing folder is also available at Scrapbookcom

That's it for today. Thanks for looking. I have an affiliate link with Altenew and Scrapbookcom, if you click on it, it'll take you to their store. Any purchases made will give me a small commission with no additional cost to you. I greatly appreciate if you decide to do that.

Thanks! 

Susan

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