Heavy Heart

Welcome

Happy Saturday.

Hoping to get in some crafting time today.

Meet today's card.  I'm trying to add to my stash of sympathy cards and this is what I came up with.

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

• I began by cutting a piece of white cardstock 3 3/4 x 5".  I like that size as there is room to mat it before adding it onto a card base.
• I got out a variety of Distress Oxide inks and using my Blending Brushes, just started blending away.  Colours used:  Black Soot, Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers, Blueprint Sketch, Weathered Wood
• When I was happy with the inking, I spritzed water over the whole panel lifting some of the ink and blending other areas and then set it aside to dry.
• I placed the dry panel into my Misti, rubbed with my Anti-static bag and stamped with this beautiful Leaf Ledger stamp using some Versamark ink and white heat embossed.
• I splattered with my white Posca pen.
• I glued the panel onto a piece of cardstock, then onto a white card base.
• I die cut the new-to-me sentiment with white cardstock, then cut the outline with a piece of vellum and glued them together, then onto my card front.  
• I added some silver gems that are most difficult to see in the photo.

Thanks again so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Simon Says Wed.- ANYTHING GOES

Stamps & Fun= Creativity

A Place to Start- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- Leaf Ledger (Impression Obsession)

Inks- Versamark; Distress Oxide

Paper- Vellum; white cs- (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Lawn Fawn white eb powder; heat tool; Misti; 

white Posca pen; TE Blending Brushes; Sympathy die (SSS); Anti Static bag

From My Garden

Welcome

So happy to have the weekend to play.

I hope you aren't getting sick of seeing all the Gel Plate leaf prints I have been making.

I made a bunch of them while playing so now it's time to make them into cards.

This was a super simple one using my Distress Oxide inks.

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

• I cut my white cardstock for the panel, then pulled out my Gel Plate, brayer and some Distress Oxide inks: Rustic Wilderness, Evergreen Bough.
• Next, I took the fern and laid it flat onto my work surface.  I inked up my brayer with some Rustic Wilderness DOX ink, being sure to cover all the surfaces and then laid that onto my plate pressing over it with a piece of scrap paper to make good contact.  I carefully lifted the leaf off and pressed my cardstock onto the plate to pick up the impression.
• Since this was going to be a simple print, I wanted to add some interest to the background, so I inked up the Leaf Ledger background stamp from Impression Obsession with the inks mentioned above and stamped directly onto my plate, then rubbed the leaf print back onto the plate.  >>watch that your stamp doesn't slide or you won't get a good image impression<<  
• I placed the panel into my Misti and stamped the sentiment, then splattered the whole panel with my black Posca pen.
• I mounted it onto a white card base.....easy right?

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Supplies

Stamps- Scripted Bold Sentiments (Pinkfresh Studios); Leaf Ledger (IO)

Inks- Distress Oxides (mentioned above); Versafine Clair Nocture

Paper- heavy white (Scribes Nook- Waterloo, Ont.)

Accessories and Tools- Gel Plate; Misti (My Sweet Petunia); leaf from garden; black Posca pen