Altenew Birthday Card

I've been having fun playing with Altenew's Bewitching Rose Craft Your Life set that comes with a stamp set, coordinating die for the floral focal piece, 3D embossing folder, and 4-piece stencil set. This is such a great set in terms of versatility. I will be posting several cards I made using different elements in the set, but for this card, I die cut a piece of orange and pink ombré cardstock and then placed it in the embossing folder. (I die cut it first so I wouldn't lose any of the lovely embossed details. It was easy to line it up inside the embossing folder before running it through my eBosser.) 

Then I stamped "birthday wishes" from the same set using red ink, fussy cut it, and adhered it to the floral focal piece using foam tape. I used a 5X7 white card base for this card and added a 5X7 white card panel on which I blended red ink on all four sides. Then I adhered a piece of 4 7/8 X 6 7/8 woodgrain patter paper to the red-edged panel and finally arranged my floral focal point how I wanted it and added it to the woodgrain panel. This was a quick card to make, but I really love the look of the 3D embossed florals. I normally wouldn't think to put orange and pink with red, but I think I like that combination (it's from Altenew's challenge board). That's something I enjoy about card challenges: they encourage me to try new ideas/techniques and to use what I have in my stash. 

Close up of the embossing details:

 Challenges I'm entering:

August 2023 Inspiration Challenge feat. Mindy Eggen (altenew.com): Inspiration Challenge

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): ATG (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Allsorts challenge blog: Fall colors or ATG (3/3; ends 10/26/23)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (3/5 for the week; 3/10 for the challenge; ends 11/8/23)

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: ATG (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Classic Design Challenge Blog: ATG (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Doodle Challenge (rabiscochallenge.blogspot.com): ATG (3/5; ends at the end of the month)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (1/2; ends 11/1/23) Random winner 11/4/23

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge: ATG with flowers as the focal point with optional mood board: (2/6; ends 11/12/23)