I began by die cutting the letters for the main word from various patterned papers in my ever-growing scrap stash. I stamped the letters onto the die cuts with black ink, and set those aside. For the background, I stamped the "thanks" in Old Paper Distress ink where I wanted my die cut letters, just as a placeholder. I marked the vertical center line (which ended up not really being necessary), and horizontal lines to help me with stamping my word straight. I stamped the same "thanks" repeatedly on my background, going in rainbow order. After I had finished all the stamping, I spritzed the panel with water from my Distress Sprayer, to let the inks bleed, then dried it with my heat tool. Since I couldn't get the horizontal pencil lines erased completely, I just camouflaged them with black dashed lines. I glued the die cut letters over my Old Paper stamped ones. I stamped the "lots of" from the "Thanks" set onto a strip of black cardstock, and white heat embossed it. I trimmed the right edge at an angle, and glued it above the main "thanks." I adhered a black strip to the top & bottom of my card base, leaving 1/8" of white above & below, then mounted my stamped panel.
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Wed, Nov 01, 2017 @ 3:22 PM
Adorable! Such a genius way to use sentiments!
------------------------------ Paula "The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things, or make them unimportant. - The Eleventh Doctor