Angela's PaperArts: Seashells Faux Centre Step birthday card

Today's card was made for a special person in my life. This card also farewells some of my favourite retiring Stampin' Up! products such as the Seaside Shells die and co-ordinating embossing folder, Celebrating You stamp set, By the Bay designer series paper and Sahara Sand cardstock.

Whilst the Faux Centre Step card is easy to make, please be aware that it does use up more paper than the traditional Centre Step card.  This style of card is simply a varied height accordion fold card base with a tent fold card topper adhered over the base. It can be made in any size to suit your project.

Here's a close up of the detailed embossing on the embossed Seaside Shells diecut.

The products used on these projects can be purchased from my online store if you live in Australia.

Please note that these products are only available until 1 May, 2023 unless sold out as part of the Last Chance sale.

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Angela's PaperArts: Brilliant Wings embossed birthday card

One of my favourite Stampin' Up! products for adding texture is Embossing Folders.

For this card's background I've combined two old techniques from when I used to do a lot of mixed media.

To create this card:

1. I inked the Pretty Flowers embossing folder itself with different inks and then embossed the Basic White cardstock.
2. I then swiped my retired Delicata silver inkpad over the raised embossing which adds to the distressed background effect.

The butterflies are from the Brilliant Wings die set. I've used a combination of silver Foundry Wax and silver embossing powder around the edges of the cardstock and on the butterfly wings. 

The sentiment is from the Celebrating You stamp set and I used the Very Best Trio Punch to create the slanted edge.  If you'd like to see all the other features and a video on how to get the most out of the Very Best Trio Punch, you can see my post here. 

The products used on this project can be purchased from my online store if you live in Australia.

Thanks for visiting.