Forever In Your Heart

Sadly, I recently needed a sympathy card for my friend who lost his Mum.  It is difficult making cards for such occasions but I find inspiration knowing that the card I send might just help ease their pain a little.  To make this card, it was a first outing for Visible Image’s Forever In Your Heart stamps and matching die.

To begin, I made a couple of inky panels using the ink smooshing technique.  I pressed Shaded Lilac, Victorian Velvet, Seedless Preserves and Dusty Concord Distress Inks onto my craft mat, spritzed on some water and dabbed my card into the puddles.

Once I’d finished the brighter one that I was going to use for the feathers, I spritzed a little more water and pressed the second piece of card into the inks.  As there was less ink and more water, the colours are more muted.

I stamped the feather using Versamark ink, added bronze embossing powder and heat set it before cutting out the feather with the matching die.  Even though the background panel was muted colours, it was still too busy so I decided to put a vellum panel over the top.  I placed it in my MISTI with the feather so that I could position the sentiment, which I heat embossed.

Now that the background would be covered with vellum, I used the hearts stamp and second generation of Seedless Preserves, which I’d also sprayed with water, to add a little more interest to the background.

Fortunately, the vellum I chose was thick with a mottled pattern on it so I could use dots of glue to attach it to the background panel and they weren’t visible through the vellum.  The feather was attached using thin foam tape and some gems finished off the card.

I had stamped and die-cut two feathers so took the opportunity to make another card with the extra feather.  For this one, I went more “clean and simple”, heat-embossing two white feathers and the sentiment onto a white square panel.  The third feather was attached using foam tape and the panel mounted on rose gold mirror card then onto a square card blank.