Wishing You Peace
This is a card I made a couple of months ago, but have’t shared yet. (I have a lot of those…)
I started out with the idea of a textured background in a deep color with some lighter texture on top. It evolved into some tone on tone texture and dimension.
I used a couple of cover dies for embossing instead of cutting by changing up my sandwich in my die cut machine. Both background layers are cut from the same Midnight cardstock. The back one trimmed just slightly smaller than the base of the same color. The one on top I cut with an arched shape die, and added some height to it with foam.
I cut the greenery sprigs out of 4 shades of blue, and brought in a little bit of warmth with Nectar and a gold metallic cardstock. The “peace” is cut out of two colors (white and nectar) for the word die, and Midnight for the shadow die.
I then realized the Midnight greenery and word shadow didn’t show against the background as much as I wanted them to, so used the coordinating color of ink (Midnight) to ink those parts which added just enough darkness to them.
I intentionally offset the white and Nectar die cut words just a bit so there’s the slightest hint of white highlight at the top of it.
The Wishing You is actually part of a stamp that I cut off so I could use it alone. (I do that sometimes so I can use parts in other ways. I can still piece it back with the other part so it doesn’t limit the ways I can use it, but it actually gives me more options.) I embossed that with white embossing powder. and attached all the pieces on the front with a mix of Gina K Connect Glue (my favorite) and some foam squares.
Supply list:
Concord and 9th -
Modern Mosaic Card Front Die
Ornament Stamp and Stitch Dies (leaves and berries)
Holiday Sayings Dies
Christmas Cloche Stamp (the one I cut the “Wishing you” from)
ink: Midnight
paper: Midnight, Nectar, Powder, Harbor, Blueberry
Lawn Fawn - Fancy Lattice Backdrop
Simon Says Stamp - Nested Domed Arches
Metallic Gold Cardstock - American Crafts
Versamark Ink
Brutus Monroe Embossing Powder - Alabaster White
Gina K Connect Glue
Foam Squares
Thanks for taking a look!