I'm running late for this week's Teapot Tuesday challenge, so I'm sneaking in the back door! This week our cards are heading to Texas for a sweet lady named Martha. Shortly after Thanksgiving, Martha and her husband decided to take a short, impromptu trip to New York with another couple. While they were there, Martha's husband said he didn't feel well. Moments later he died of a massive heart attack. Martha enjoys handmade cards, so the Teapotters will be showering her with our best thoughts and wishes as we mail our cards to her. We were encouraged to use fields of flowers or other peaceful nature scenes for our cards.
I started with a natural white card base. I stamped my sentiment in Rich Cocoa on a smaller piece of natural white, then attached it to brown and green patterned papers from the Latte matstack collection. I cut a large panel from the flowery patterned paper in the same collection, then used a second piece of the patterned paper to fussy-cut some of the flowers. I popped those flowers up on dimensionals and adhered them over the identical flowers on the larger panel.
I didn't have the color of ribbon I wanted to use, so I grabbed some off-white ribbon and my New Sprout ink pad. I dyed the ribbon by running the ink pad over it several times, then rubbing off the excess ink with an old cloth. I adhered the ribbon to the patterned paper, then adhered the entire panel to the card base. Finally, I added my sentiment block over the ribbon with dimensionals.
Registered: June 26, 2006 Location: North Grafton, MA Posts: 2733
Sun, Jan 20, 2013 @ 4:26 PM
Amy, this card is so pretty, the colors are gorgeous. I love how you gave some of the flowers dimension and dyed your ribbon to match. And your sentiment couldn't be more true.
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