Comforting Cards

Hi friends! It's time for our monthly Instagram hop at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. Head on over to my Instagram feed for a chance to win a gift code to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps shop! Today I'm sharing a couple of cards using my Forever Loved stamp set and coordinating dies.

First up is a clean and simple card. I created the background with the She's a Gem watercolor palette from Rachel Beth Designs, smooshing and splattering to my heart's content. I embossed the Matthew 5:4 verse from Forever Loved in black over the background.

Next I colored up the flower and a few leaves with Zig markers, then cut with the coordinating dies. I layered it all together, and then popped up the whole background on a foam sheet and adhered to a regular A2 card. A few white gel pen accents and some stickles for the flower center and this card was done.

My second card is a little more involved, this time embossing the leaves and flowers with white embossing powder on vellum cardstock.  I then blended archival inks onto the back of the vellum die cuts, until I was happy with the saturation.  I set those aside and started work on the background, picking up some smooshed prize ribbon distress ink.  I had a lot more ink on my desk than I wanted so I dipped the Delightfully Delicate Stencil in the ink and then laid it onto my background to get a bit of a pattern going.  I then added some light stenciling with the Leaf Branch Stencil around where I wanted to place my flowers.

Next I used a circle die to cut out a circle on one side of the background.  I embossed the thoughts and prayers sentiment in black, then laid this down on a panel of cardstock and popped the rest of the background up with foam tape for some dimension. I then layered all the vellum die cuts and adhered to the cardstock, then cut off any extra bits before adding to my card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a super creative day!