This Charming Day Damask Birthday Card was a fun card to make! I used a Petal Pink Two-Tone cardstock for the background to show one of the techniques you can use with this two-tone cardstock. This paper has a light shade on one side and a darker shade of the same color on the other side, plus a white core. I took advantage of the white core of the paper with the embossed background.
In order to create the interesting background for this card, I embossed the Petal Pink Two-Tone cardstock with the Damask Designs Embossing Folder. This is a pretty embossing folder to use just as it comes out, but if you have two-tone cardstock, you can do something extra with the embossed paper. After embossing the pretty design, use a sanding block, or whatever you have, to lightly rub across the top of the embossed images. Go lightly at first. You can always do more as long as you don’t tear the paper. When you do the sanding, it will expose the white core of the paper! It’s very subtle on this card with the light-colored paper, but you can see it.
The card base is Basic White cardstock and the embossed Damask Designs layer is adhered to it. If you wanted a more dramatic background, use a darker color of the two-tone cardstsock.
For the flowers, I stamped this little cluster of flowers in the Charming Day Stamp Set with Memento Ink on Basic White cardstock. The flowers are colored in with Petal Pink Stampin’ Blends and the leaves with Lemon Lime Twist Stampin’ Blends. Then it was diecut with the Charming Day Dies. If you want the stamp set and dies, you can get the Charming Day Bundle and save 10%. The greeting is also in the stamp set and is stamped in Memento ink. It is diecut with my go-to…. the banner in the Stylish Shapes Dies. The flowers are popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals, but the greeting is adhered flat to the card.
For a little embellishment, I used three of the Strawberry Slush & Pretty In Pink Gems on the embossed layer. They are small and just add a little sparkle. I didn’t want to add too much to this particular card because I wanted to show off the sanded embossing on the card using the two-tone cardstock.
If you are interested in any of the colors in the Two-Tone cardstock, there is a sale going on today and tomorrow, July 10 – 11. You can check out all the colors on page 77 in the Annual Catalog. The paper is 20% off on these last two days of the three-day sale! This cardstock is great for cardmaking and other projects as well as scrapbooking!
Before you decide on individual colors, check out the various assortment packs. There are seven assortments with two sheets of each of six colors which would give you several colors to try. They are mixed in on the Two Tone Sale page so just scroll through. Choose the grouping of colors you like the best or get all of them!
Read more about the Two-Tone cardstock HERE.