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More thoughts than prayers

Here’s another card that I made whilst I was experimenting with the tree from Thought and Prayers; this time a thinking of you card. I am really enjoying going back to the Work of Art swoosh that everyone played with so much when the catalogue came out and finding new (for me) ways to use it. I’m also having a lot of fun playing with the effect of changing colours.

Stampin' Up! Thinking of You, Work of Art, Sheltering Tree

I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the swooshes (of course) otherwise it’s impossible to get them snuggled up against each other and in line. The first is, surprise surprise, pear pizzazz and then old olive and mossy meadow. I hadn’t been using mossy meadow much until I did the CAS Colour and Sketches challenge earlier this month and then I was reminded what a gorgeously warm colour it is, so thanks for reminding me, Jane! I then used the Thoughts and Prayers tree and stamped that in early espresso as I did with the sentiment which is from Sheltering Tree. I then mounted my piece of very vanilla on a mossy meadow base. The matching very vanilla envelope is lined with the backgrounds DSP from the in colours 2014 family in mossy meadow. I may need to challenge myself to use these papers for something other than lining envelopes, but that’s for another day!

Thoughts and prayers for a birthday

When I finally inked up the Stampin’ Up! Thoughts and Prayers stamp set, I rather fell for the tree image. It doesn’t just need to be for sympathy cards and I decided to make a selection to show that.

Stampin' Up! Thoughts and Prayers, Work of Art, Sassy Salutations

Stampin’ Up! currently has a good selection of teal ink colours and I selected soft sky, pool party and lost lagoon for this card, stamping them on very vanilla. The swoosh is from the Work of Art set and I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to help me line them up as I wanted them. I then put the card to one side whilst I worked on another card. After the short break and thus being certain that the ink was dry, I used the embossing buddy to remove any static from the card and then stamped the tree in versamark. After sprinkling on the gold embossing powder, I used the heat gun to really bring this card to life. I think that one reason that I love making Christmas cards is that they tend to have a lot of metallic embossing!

The sentiment is from the Sassy Salutations set and is stamped in lost lagoon. As you can see, the matching liner is also in lost lagoon, from the backgrounds DSP.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

Thoughts and Prayers with sympathy

Sadly my friend Julia told me that not only does she need a baby card, but she also needs a sympathy one. She does have a stash of cards that she made herself, but it’s not large enough to cover all eventualities. Yet! I have a couple but decided to make a new one so that she has as much choice of these as she does with the baby cards.

Stampin' Up! Work of Art and Thoughts & Prayers

The swoosh is from the Stampin’ Up! Work of Art stamp set and is stamped in crumb cake, soft suede and then early espresso stamped off once on very vanilla card stock. I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the swooshes but I know a lot people prefer to do it freehand. I love the stamp-a-ma-jig, it’s one of the tools without which I couldn’t stamp. I then stamped both the tree and the sentiment from Thoughts and Prayers in early espresso. The card stock is then mounted on a crumb cake base. Stampin’ Up! sells crumb cake envelopes (also whisper white and very vanilla) so this was a perfect time to pull one out. I lined it using the envelope liner framelits to cut out the liner in the backgrounds DSP in crumb cake.

See you tomorrow,

Liz