Stampin' Up Thoughtful Banners Mother's Day Card
I used Stampin' Up! Thoughtful Banners to create this unique Mother's Day card for my mother. For the background I used cream cardstock and inked up Tim Holtz "Roses" embossing folder with black Versafine Ink (make sure you have a strong cleaner like Blue Wolf to clean up the embossing folder, Versafine is permenant). I have found that the distress inks contain too much water and do not do well with embossing folders, but other inks (Stampin' Up!) work really well. If you look closely, I did get some black ink on the embossed part, its difficult not to. But if you apply the ink with a brayer, it reduces this. I added an assortment of embellishments, including the flower which I die cut using Stampin' Up! Botanical Builder thinlets. I embossed the sentiment and die cut that with a circle and cut an additional black circle and cream scallop and adhered two little wooden hearts. Finally I added some ribbon (purchased locally at Michael's) I ac