Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Miss You Much


I was thinking of my Marine son as I was making this. He deployed five days ago to Afghanistan. I am thankful for prayer....I can do that.

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I used the following sets on this fun card:

BACKGROUND BASICS

I masked off a 1/2" border all around on my 5 x 5 card base using post-it notes. I used rainbow colors to ink up my Chevron bg stamp from this set. For example first I inked the bottom of my chevron using orange then inked the top of the stamp using red, huffed on it and stamped. I repeated using colors of the rainbow. I outlined it using an Ultra Fine black sharpie pen and ruler.

JIBBER JABBER

I combined the three sentiments "Miss", "You" and "Much" from this set for my sentiment. I laid them out face down on scrap paper the way I wanted them. Then I pressed my acrylic block to pick them up. I stamped them on scrap paper to make sure they stamped the way I wanted. Then stamped on my card. I love how they line up just right inside my background row.

PRICELESS JOY

Lastly I stamped two birds from this set on my card. Then I stamped them 6 times on white paper. I colored them, cut them out in parts, sponged the edges and popped them up for the finishing touch.

RECIPE:
STAMPS:Jibber Jabber, Background Basics, Priceless Joy (The Alley Way Stamps)
PAPER:Cottonball White (Clear Dollar Stamps)
INK:Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Walnut Stain, Palette Ink Pads Cherry Go Round, Tangelo Smoothie, Fresh Papaya, Lime Juice, Turquoise Gem and Wild Huckleberry (Clear Dollar Stamps), Copics Y17, BG05
ACCESSORIES:Dimensional Tape, Post-It Notes, Tim Holtz Blender Tool
TECHNIQUE:Paper Tole, Masking

THANKS FOR VISITING. ENJOY YOUR DAY!

7 comments:

Debbie Carriere said...

This is fantastic!!! Love the design and colors and those awesome stamps!!! God bless your son and thank you!! I hope his deployment is a safe and uneventful one.

Annette Allen said...

such a fun card...I am loving all these fun color..

Rosemary said...

what a sweet card, lisa!!! love the little birdies!

carefree creations said...

((hugs)) I can't imagine having my child so far away.

Lynette said...

Very cool card, Lisa. Best wishes to your son.

Anonymous said...

What a fantastic card you have made with these sets! Love the colourful background and those gorgeous birds!

Jenny said...

I love your cheery card Lisa, those rainbow stripes would brighten anyone's day and I love how you placed the birds :0)
Hugs to you, it can't be easy knowing a loved one is in such a hostile enviroment.
Jenny x

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