I didn’t mean to share this card today, I was going to make a card for a challenge but I had news that my amazing physical therapist died yesterday. He was in his forties and leaves behind a wife, two children and an unborn child. He was an incredible person – always happy and joking and absolutely miraculous at his job. I once sprained my ankle nine days before a marathon and called Matt almost in tears the next day. He said to give it a couple of days and then come to see him. I ran that marathon after a couple of treatments. As I said, Matthew Loughlin was miraculous. He will be greatly missed. So a “sending good thoughts your way” card seems apt today.

I used a template that I’d made using a plastic sheet from photopolymer stamp packaging and square framelits and sponged crushed curry and elegant eggplant onto it. I was trying to make a card using these colours and garden green for a challenge but it didn’t work. But introducing gold made me happy. I stamped the tree from the Thoughts and Prayers set in versamark and then covered it in gold embossing powder. The sentiment is from the Too Kind stamp set and is in elegant eggplant. I mounted the piece of whisper white onto an elegant eggplant base. The envelope flap was embossed with the spring flowers embossing folder.

Rest in Peace, Matt.