... Good morning! The cards I'm sharing this morning are amongst the hardest I've ever had to make. I used a technique that Gina K demonstrated last week - to use paper, stamps, and card. Here are the cards I made:
Stamps: Altenew - Dot Botanicals; Waffle Flower - With Sympathy Duo; Gina K - Sympathy & Love
Inks: Gina K - Fresh Asparagus, Black Onyx; Versafine Claire - Nocturne
Dies: Gina K - Master Layouts 2
Accessories: White Card; SU Card - Soft Sea Foam, Pear Pizzazz, Gumball Green
I'm submitting these cards to Never-Before-Used-Schtuff - NBUS#54 - I've had the stamps for a while, but never used them!!
The technique that Gina showed us is brilliant. I picked three shades of green card and cut the strip to ½", although you could use more colours and have thinner or thicker strips. Once each panel was assembled and stamped with the message, I used a stitch edge die to cut out the panel and adhered each to a black mat layer and then added them to the front of an A2 (US size) side-opening white note card. On the inside of each card I cut a mat layer of green card and on the white panels I stamped the dot leaves in pale green and added different sympathy messages in black ink.
Two of these card have been sent to my cousins; their brother passed last week. And that's why these were so hard to make.
That's all for today. See you again tomorrow.
I'm so sorry for your family's loss, Deborah. Your beautiful sympathy cards will bring them a lot of comfort. You really rocked Gina's technique and I love the soft colors! Thank you for inspiring everyone at NBUS! Hugs, Darnell
ReplyDeleteAlways sad to make these cards Deborah, but they are lovely.
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