The mother of a friend of ours recently passed away, so I made this sympathy card to send.
I began by die cutting a piece of watercolor paper with one of the arch dies. I inked it with Salvaged Patina, Mustard Seed, & Shabby Shutters. I spritzed water droplets onto the panel, let them sit for a minute or two, then picked the drops up with a towel. I wanted kind of a 2-tone effect, with some water spots darker than others, so I inked over the Mustard Seed area with Squeezed Lemonade & added another layer of Shabby Shutters at the bottom of the panel. (I didn't feel the Salvaged Patina area needed another layer of ink.) Then I spritzed more droplets on & soaked them up.
I die cut 3 wildflowers from white cardstock. I inked the flower portions with a Versamarker pen, and added a coat of Abandoned Coral Distress Embossing Glaze. I repeated the process once again to get a more solid coating. Then I did the same with Mowed Lawn Embossing Glaze for the stems & leaves. I glued them to my background, & trimmed off the overhanging bits. I then adhered my arch to a navy mat.
I stamped a butterfly onto a scrap of green cardstock with Deep Sea ink. I die cut it with the coordinating die, & also die cut 2 more butterfly shapes from the same cardstock. Using a trick I learned from Jennifer McGuire, I folded each of the plain die cuts in half. I added glue to half of one & adhered it behind the left half of the stamped butterfly. I did the same to the other folded butterfly, and glued it behind the right half. Then I glued just the other halves of the folded butterfly die cuts to my card front, so the stamped one would pop up slightly.
I had initially planned to stamp the greeting on a strip of cardstock & adhere it to my card. But I was pleasantly surprised - downright giddy, in fact - when I discovered that this particular greeting nestled perfectly along the curve of the arch with the flower tucked in under it. So I used Deep Sea ink to stamp it there. Talk about serendipity! Finally, I added my card front to a white A2 card base.
Date: Thursday, August 31, 2023 GMT Views: 168
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