Amazingly for me, I don't have a Christmas card today. But I will have one tomorrow!!
For a friend who is an avid bird watcher. I will be seeing her on her birthday so I could make something I can hand deliver. It's for two challenges - Can You Handle the Pressure "Trees / Leaves" and The Sisterhood of Crafters "Birthdays".
Shopping our Stash wants Sympathy cards - a good challenge to get me to make one for my stash as, at my age, sadly I seem to have need of sympathy cards fairly often.
I masked off a rectangle on my focal panel and sponged from three corners first with the lighter ink, then the darker. I stamped the leaves and text with second generation grey ink, and then stamped the sentiment with full strength grey ink. On top of it all, I stamped the cream leaves with white pigment ink and then heat embossed with cream embossing powder. It's popped up on fun foam on a dry embossed background.
Supplies for card 1:
Stamps - Rosie's Roadshow vertical sentiment
Ink - various green, yellow, orange Distress inks
Paper - white and grey-green cs
Size - A2
Accessories - moss from my garden, leafy wreath die, bird die, leafy branches embossing folder
Supplies for card 2:
Stamps - SU Very Versailles, unknown sentiment
Ink - various aqua / turquoise Distress inks, Archival Watering Can, ColorBox white
Paper - white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - textured embossing folder, cream embossing powder, fun foam
Two wonderful birthday cards Susan, and I love the sweet bird on the mossy nest..such great dimension, and having the green leafy wreath around and the added branches EF and vertical sentiment finish it perfectly. The second is just beautiful and strikes just the right note for a sympathy card. I love the textural embossing and the added masked and inked rectangle fading it out to the corner where the sentiment is and the added heat embossed leaves over the softer background stamped leaves is a super design and so pretty. x
ReplyDeleteTwo beautiful cards, that's a sweet bird on the birthday card and I love the soft blending on the sympathy card.
ReplyDeleteFantastic sympathy card...so very pretty!! Way to go shopping your stash!! Thanks for joining the fun and playing along with our “with sympathy” challenge over at Shopping Our Stash.
ReplyDeleteDeb Horst, DT #SOS557
Both cards are beautiful, don't you just love it when you can load up a card and then hand deliver it, so fun, I just did the same with my daughter, a 3D card!
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining our challenge at Can You Handle The Pressure!
Diane CYHTP Co-Owner
{Nellies Nest}
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Both are just awesome Susan! You are so creative!! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at the Sisterhood of Crafters & Can You Handle the Pressure challenges! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
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DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
Sisterhood of Crafters Owner
CYHTP Co-Owner
Absolutely GORGEOUS cards and I am especially impressed by the artistry and layering on the beautiful sympathy card. Thanks for SHOPPING YOUR STASH with us this fortnight!
ReplyDeleteLOVE the bird's nest Susan!! What a beautiful way to use a piece of moss from your garden! Lovely bird and perfect dry embossed branches in the background. Your friend is going to love her special card! Your sympathy card is STUNNING. Love the masked and sponged shades of blue for your background with the leaf stamping over top. Adding the cream embossed branch on top really highlights the stamping to create the illusion of depth. A lovely sympathy card. xx
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