4CCC-149 {Dry Embossing} & Mojo300 & Fusion 13

Happy Independence Day to all my wonderful American friends!  I'm sure you will all be busy celebrating today so when you are all finished with that, I hope you will join us for a brand new 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge.  This week Leanne is our hostess-with-the-mostest and she's got an EASY one for us all this week: Dry Embossing.  Use a stencil, embossing folder or whatever else you've got that you can dry emboss with.  I know most of you have a bunch of embossing folders so get 'em out and use them!

For my card I used a couple different folders - a fantastic woodgrain one from Stampin' UP! that I used on the birdhouse and the big flag and then a leafy branch one on the white layer.  I thought it was kind of like the trunk of the tree and the branches/leaves that a birdhouse would hang from.  The stamps are from two different TAWS sets, Tag-alongs and Bird Brain:

The sketch is this week's Mojo Monday sketch - celebrating 300 sketches!!  Wow...I can hardly believe Julee has been blessing us with fabulous sketches for so long - thanks, Julee.  :)

And the card was inspired by this week's Fusion Card Challenge Inspiration picture - the colors of the birds and the bird theme:

Thanks for stopping by today - enjoy the day and upcoming weekend!  We're heading out to visit my parents for some much-needed R&R...see you next week!