This week, we’re having fun with textures and sentiments. While we all love to reach for those gorgeous patterned papers, we can make equally as wonderful designs when our embossing tools take center stage. Today we’re combining a new Sale-a-Bration embossing folder called Starstruck with the Friends for Life bundle and a selection of In Colors to create a cheery design for a friend.

Our card design gets started with a base of Petunia Pop cardstock. Our background panel of Peach Pie is machine embossed with the SAB Starstruck embossing folder and oriented so that the negative side is facing up. I tied a strip of Summer Splash trim around the center of the embossed panel before adhering it to the base with dimensionals. The sentiment from Saying Hey is stamped in Petunia Pop ink before getting punch with the Heartfelt Hexagon punch and then adhered over the ribbon with dimensionals. I cut the word FRIEND from two different glimmer papers. The outline is from Summer Splash glimmer paper while the word FRIEND itself is from the pastel ombre glimmer paper. An extra layer of dimensionals helps FRIEND to stand out. A few purple sequins and some Sunny Days transparent dots bring the eye squarely to the party in the middle.

I just love how the embossed panel in this design almost looks to be a sheet of patterned paper, and it does make you think about how patterned papers ultimately get started. Sometimes the inspiration is literally a textured pattern.

Tune in tomorrow as things turn a bit more regal for some thankful thoughts.

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