New Challenge at Inkspirational!

Hi friends!

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is "emboss your background". You can use embossing folders or heat embossing, both will do! Thank you my DT buddy Julia for choosing this fun topic!

I used a striped embossing folder for my background. After embossing it I masked the raised arias one by one as I went and inked the "valleys". The dies I'm using come from Honey Bee Stamps and I LOVE them -this is my first time using them. Also sentiment is by Honey Bee Stamps. We don't have possibility to buy Honey Bee here in Finland and when visiting US in May I did order these dies, a beautiful floral stamp set and orchid dies from them. Can't wait to try the other products too! 

I began with die cutting the pieces from white Neenah and sponged ink to them with Altenew dye inks. I guess I could have used colored card stock and shade that but decided go the hard way lol. :) Love the soft look though! The "basket" is a half circle die by MFT -I stamped a little checker pattern to it to make it more basket looking and also used some ink sponging and shading to add to the more textured look. Not a perfect basket but good enough! I'll confess this card took ages to make with all the masking, sponging, inking, shading, stamping... All the works. But I'm very happy with it!  

Thank you for popping by and I hope to see you joining us!