When I was trying to create a card with 5 colours for the last Fab Friday challenge, I pulled out the Stampin’ Up! Flower Patch set and played around with clear embossing powder and sponges. That card didn’t work out for the challenge (too many colours!), but I liked the effect and put it on my list of cards to make. Here’s the result with just two colours!

Using a piece of crumb cake, I embossed the flowers in the clear embossing powder. After that I used a sponge and some cherry cobbler ink and, starting in the centre of each flower carefully sponged towards the edges letting the colour fade as I got further away from the centres. As I was heat embossing, I also decided to heat emboss the happy birthday sentiment (from Sassy Salutations) in cherry cobbler. I mounted this on a base of cherry cobbler.

I pulled out a crumb cake envelope and pondered how to enhance it. I’ve just received the Fresh Prints paper stack (it’s on the clearance rack) and it had some handy prints so I lined the outside of the envelope’s flap.