Whachdoin' Wednesday?

Today is the first installment of Whachadoin' Wednesday at Storage Units, Ink & More. The challenge today is to use embossing folders. If you don't have embossing folders and would still like to play along, I give you unofficial permission to do the old fashioned dry embossing, or even faux dry emboss. If you upload to Splitcoast, use keyword SUINKWWC1. And please leave us a link to your creation (gallery or blog) so we can all check it out. Leave your link on this SU Ink post.

And here's mine. I embossed my Grape Gusto Core'dinations card stock with the Bloom Dots folder, then sanded a bit to bring out the lighter core color. Isn't that fun?!? I stamped some images from At A Snail's Pace on the background and stamped a few more on scrap card stock to cut out and layer for my little garden scene. To go with my distressed background, I also distressed the Purple Moon layer of my main image. And I just love the little trio of funky brads to go with the round sentiment. One more brad with some ribbon scraps in the top corner finished it off.

What's In It?

Stamps: At a Snail's Pace (SU Ink)

Paper: grape gusto, purple moon, meadow, grassroots (Core'dinations); white (Papertrey Ink)

Ink: graphite black (Brilliance); elegant eggplant (Stampin' Up!)

Accessories: precision file set (Basic Grey); distressing tool (Tim Holtz); ribbon (American Crafts); brads (Queen & Co and SU!); bloom dots embossing folder and stamps die (Cuttlebug); dimensionals

Also, thanks to everyone who partied with Verve last night at the release party on Splitcoast. I had such a blast chatting with some of you. Sorry if I missed you. I couldn't quite keep up with the pace. If you missed it, Verve has all the new releases available now on the website. That's six new sets and five Plain Janes. You're going to LOVE them. Fun, elegant, and SO VERVE!