Fern & Flora Faux Watercolor Technique - Thankful For You

Bring striking details to your designs with the Fern & Flora 3D Embossing Folder. Whimsical botanical details and embossed textures give your paper crafting projects enchanting depth and elegance.

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Measurements:

Cardstock:

Soft Sea Foam: 5-1/2” x 8-1/2” (score at 4-1/4”); Greeting Layer – 1-1/2” x 3-1/2”
Peaceful Pine: 4” x 5-1/4”; Focal Image Circle – 1-7/8” circle

Specialty Paper:

Fluid Watercolor Paper: Front Layer 3-7/8” x 5-1/8”
Gold Foil Sheets: scraps for die cuts
Old Olive Two-Toned: Fern Die Cuts 4-1/2” x 3” (one facing the light side)

Embellishments:

Peaceful Pine Bordered Ribbon

Gold Stripe Mesh Ribbon

Dewdrops embellishments

Instructions:

1. Emboss a 3-7/8" x 5-1/8" piece of watercolor paper using the Fern & Flora 3D Embossing Folder.
2. Using a Water Painter and ink transferred into the lids of your ink pads, loosely color the embossed floral images with Old Olive, Soft Sea Foam, Peaceful Pine, and Mossy Meadow ink.
3. Lightly mist the watercolor paper with Stampin’ Spritz to allow the colors to blend naturally.
4. Gently blot the piece with a paper towel to help dry the background.
5. Load your Water Painter with heavily diluted Peaceful Pine ink and tap it against a Bone Folder to create splatter across the background.
6. Distress the edges of the watercolor paper using your fingernail or a Bone Folder, folding some of the corners upward for added texture.
7. Adhere the embossed watercolor layer to a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Peaceful Pine cardstock.
8. Wrap Peaceful Pine Ribbon around the layered panel and tie a bow on the right side.
9. Cut a 12" piece of striped gold mesh ribbon into three thin strips, tie them around the Peaceful Pine bow, and fluff them to create a messy bow.
10. Die cut three fern images from Old Olive Two-Tone cardstock and die cut the decorative frame and curly fern piece from Gold Foil Sheets using the Fern & Flora Dies.
11. Stamp the lined background image from the Fern & Flora Stamp Set onto a 1-7/8" Peaceful Pine circle using Peaceful Pine ink. Stamp the “Thankful for You” greeting and border label onto Soft Sea Foam cardstock using Peaceful Pine ink, then die-cut.
12. Cut the gold frame die cut in half lengthwise and adhere it behind the greeting label so the gold peeks out from the top and bottom. Build the focal image by adhering the ferns and gold fern to the stamped circle with liquid glue, then attach the greeting with Dimensionals. Adhere the completed card front to an 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" Soft Sea Foam card base scored at 4-1/4", then finish with Dewdrop Embellishments. 

Product List

Fern & Flora 3 D Embossing Folder [167744] $15.00	Soft Sea Foam 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [146988] $20.00	Peaceful Pine 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [167691] $20.00	Old Olive 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Two Tone Cardstock [166683] $13.75	Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper [149612] $12.25
Gold Foil Sheets [132622] $7.00	Peaceful Pine Classic Stampin Pad [167679] $20.00	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [147090] $12.25	Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [147111] $12.25	Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin' Pad [147102] $12.25
Peaceful Pine 3/8" (1 Cm) Bordered Ribbon [167551] $12.25	Gold Striped 3/8" (1 Cm) Mesh Ribbon [165599] $11.00	Dewdrops Embellishments [167748] $12.25	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $191.00	Blending Brushes [153611] $24.00
Water Painters [168253] $18.00	Stampin' Spritzer [126185] $8.25	1 7/8" (4.8 Cm) Circle Punch [165259] $34.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $8.25

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