Hi friends! Happy Sunday! We’re delighted to welcome back special guest Cathy Zielske to our blog in the latest edition of our monthly EZ with CZ series! Read on and be sure to watch the video for all the details! Enjoy!

Hello Crafty Friends! It’s Cathy Z. here, back with another installment of EZ with CZ! Today I’m sharing a fun way to create a background panel with simple tone-on-tone texture: use those embossing folders!

I love a good Swiss dot folder and this one from Gina K. Designs is great and will emboss up to a 5 x 7 size. The perfect topper is a beautifully blended (with Pawsitively Saturated Inks!) sentiment like this one called You’re on my Heart!

The texture is subtle but it creates the perfect home for whatever greeting you want to use. Here, I created a simple ink blend for my top die cut layer. Easy and breezy!

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Thanks so much for stopping by! See you back here next month with another card project.

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Thanks so much for stopping by, and thanks to Cathy for being our guest!