Reflect

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I'm calling today's card Reflect.

I think after the year we have had, it's a good time to just stop and think about all we have been through.

When we were in lock-down this summer and I wasn't working, I tried to get out walking.  It gave me a chance to appreciate all the nature around me and reflect on all I was grateful for.  

During my walks, I picked up some grasses and that is how this card came to be using the grasses on my Gel Plate.  I also wanted to try and make a side fold card which was easy to do.

So here's what I did to create my card.

• I began with a piece of white cardstock and my Gel Plate.  Using my brayer, I rolled on a few different shades of acrylic paint covering my Gel Plate.  
• I took the grasses I had collected and placed them carefully over the wet paint.  I laid my cardstock over the Gel Plate and rubbed to lift the print. (You can see where the grasses were, it left my paper white creating what is called a 'cyanotype'.  I made another card using this process here.)  I just love the look it gives.
• I decided to create a side-fold card using the print. I will list all the measurements and how to's below this description.  
• After I cut all my pieces, I places the square panel into my Misti and stamped this new-to-me sentiment from Impression Obsession with some black Versafine Clair and used some black embossing powder to help make it pop over the painted bkg.  I also added some black paint splatters with my Posca pen.
• I glued it all together and then added the twine and the black gems.  
• I used my circle punch to cut a small notch in the top and bottom of my card to hold the twine in place.

 

How to Make a Side Fold Card

Main card base:  Cut a piece of cardstock 4 1/4" x 11"

Score @ 5 1/2 and 6 3/4"

Fold the 5 1/2” score as a valley (like a regular card). 

Then fold the 6 3/4” score the opposite direction.

Glue the area between the scoring together.

Card Panels:  The finished size of the panel on the left hand side 

(the part that is glued together) is 4" x 1" 

The main stamped panel is 4" x 4" 

*you will have to adjust the sizes if you are adding a border piece of cardstock to your finished pieces.  My border pieces were 1/4 inch so I adjusted my painted panels to work with that*

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Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Be Still (IO)

Inks- Versafine Clair; acrylic paint (Dollar Tree)

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook); navy cs

Accessories and Tools- Gel Plate; brayer; grasses; black eb powder (Ranger); 

heat tool; black gems; twine; circle punch