Friendly Foliage used this week

23 Jan 26

Well I'm back after my vacation. Seems like I've been gone a long time. I guess 22ish days is long enough to feel that way. After I returned from my vacation it was just slow going to get the wheels turning again. I thought I was all straightened out with the time change but lately I have been waking up at 3am like clock work. I'll get there, just going to take a little more time. I am feeling tip top though, headache hasn't come back and my stuffiness is gone. Mike did get a cold from who knows where so I'm doing my best to steer clear of catching that! Now if the weather would come out of the deep freeze life will be awesome. I have a crafting day tomorrow that I hope will not get canceled. It's going to be negative tempertures tomorrow and that won't cancel it, just hope the roads are good to get there.

Anyway.....you are here to see the cards I made this week, not to hear about me! I did three cards, stepped each up a little bit to show a variety of different things you can do to have a nice card without a lot of effort. My class for January used the Friendly Foliage so I continued with that for my cards this week. My new plan of attack for classes is to use one set and then through the month I'll show the cards and some extra ideas, so this was kinda following that idea. We'll see how long I can do that. It seems so limiting. You can see the video for these cards on YouTube here.

This is the first card I did. It uses limited supplies and if you didn't want to cut out the leaves you could just use one of the stamps in the set. Cutting the rectangles and stamping would eliminate the need for the dies and a embossing machine for anyone that doesn't purchase it all.

This one steps it up a little bit with the use of the dies and a little technique for making the pattern. Our new stamp positioner tool that was just announced will help with this style of stamping for sure.

This card is pretty simple too but looks much fancier with all of the layers it has. It uses dry embossing with the folder on the vanilla piece and heat embossing with the sentiment and flower piece.

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