Hope Your Day is Wonderful with Memory Box 2025 Birthday Release

Hello and welcome, I have a simple and beautiful card for you today using brand newly released goodies from the Memory Box 2025 Birthday release!

Supplies:  https://ldli.co/e/e2yxrd2

For this card I inked the 3D embossing folder using the brayer technique with Distress Oxide Salvaged Patina ink - here's the technique I used:

To make it smooth, take your ink pad and put lots of ink on your glass mat, directly with pad on the glass  mat.  Next take your brayer and bray over the ink over and over until your glass mat has a very smooth even color of ink BEFORE you take the brayer directly to the debossed side of the folder.  You will need to do this about 5 or 6 times - believe me, it takes several coats.  You will actually see the smooth ink forming on the folder with about the 3rd or 4th pass, but just keep going because you won't get a dark enough panel if you stop there.

Once inked lay the cardstock on the dry side of the inside of the embossing folder and close it.  Run it through your die cutting/embossing machine (I used my Platinum 6 machine) and take it out carefully to let it dry.  The floral pattern will be press upward and look stunning.  

Be sure to clean your embossing folder while you wait for the ink to dry and also wipe up any excess ink on your glass mat.  I often use a clean piece of cardstock to pick up some of the left over ink, I'll spray it with water to get more of it up on the cardstock.  Now you have any extra panel you can use for a different card.  

The sentiment is from the Breezy Bouquet clear stamp set, heat embossed in white on black cardstock.  

You can leave the card just like that OR you can continue with these instructions if you want lots more texture.

Next I took a piece of vellum and used the coordinating floral die from the stamp set to cut the flower out.  Once cut, place it inside the 3D embossing folder taking care to line it up exactly, then run it through your machine to emboss the vellum.  Once embossed, place it on top of the white embossed section of your orginal inked panel.  I used liquid glue under the sentiment to attach the vellum to the raised white embossed part of the blue panel.  To secure it in a few other places, I added just very tiny dots of a dot runner to various places under the vellum so you can't see the adhesive.

Lastly I added a few Fairy Jewels to the card front and the largest flower's center.

Here's one last look:

I hope you like my card for today, I have lots of fun making it!  Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the entire new release!  For more links and info, you can go to my blog here.

Click here for links to all the supplies I used today! Supplies:  https://ldli.co/e/e2yxrd2