Sympathy Card with Waffle Flower Stencils and Dies

 Hello there. I'm back with another card created by products selected with my spread sheet and a random number selector. 

The choices were:

Brand: Waffle Flower

Product: Stencil

Technique: Ink Blending

Color Pallet: Sarah Renea Clark Color Cube #1

Theme: Sympathy

Extra: Twine

This was an opportunity to use the Waffle Flower Postal Die Collection. I picked up the Snow Winter Stencils. I thought they would work for a sympathy card because they have cardinals included in the images. 

You can buy them here:

https://waffleflower.com/collections/postage-collage

I chose the colors from card 180 from the Sarah Renea Clark Color Cube box 1.

You can buy the color cubes here:

https://sarahrenaeclark.com/colorcube/

I did trade the greys in this color combination for purples. Grey would have worked, but I had my heart set on purple mountains. 

The set has three layers, and each stencil and opening has  "light, medium, or dark" etched into it so you know which color to use. These are the colors I used. They're from Simon Says Stamp.

I used a combination of small blending brushes in my stash. I wiped the section with a micro fiber cloth after each color to keep colors from spreading and creating icky colors. 

Once the ink blending was complete, I die cut the whole image with the coordinating postage die. 

I selected a mid tone brown for the card base. I am using the image to create a landscape style card that measures 5 1/3 inches wide by 4 1/4 inches tall. The die cut panel is about       5 1/4 inches x 4 inches. 

I add some old brown and white twine around the bottom third of the panel. Then add foam tape on the back. But I have cut the foam tape into pieces so it doesn't show through the cut out detail. 

I used a stamp from Mint Owl Designs stamp set. I'm not sure if they still make stamps, but a quick google search leads me to think no. I stamped the sympathy sentiment in brown ink on the same white paper and then struggled where to place it. I ended up going with the lower right corner. Now that it's all put together, I would choose a smaller sentiment, and heat embossed it in white on the same brown cardstock as the card base. I still could I guess. 

After I have the sentiment adhered, I added a bow with the twine. And that's the completed card.

You can watch the video here:

https://youtu.be/Z5nyhMIB9XA

Thanks for stopping by.