It never occurred to me to substitute a letter of a large die cut word with an image of some kind and I learned how easy that is to do in Day 10 of Spring Card Camp 2 at Online Card Classes. The stamped and die cut butterfly from Pinkfresh Studio is replacing the O in Hope created with alphabet dies from Kat Scrappiness. Hope, Kindness and Love Cannot Be Cancelled is the wonderful message in a free digital stamp set from Queen & Company. I used another free digital stamp on the inside of the card from Catherine Pooler:
I love how our stamping crafty community is stepping up to share joy and helping others in these tough times and am happy to do my small part.
I loved the ideas presented in Day 9 of the Spring Card Camp at Online Card Classes which combined stencils and inking, and I had a play with them today. I sponged on Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry and Lucky Clover Distress Oxides through a stencil from Catherine Pooler. As the lesson suggested, I then removed the stencil and spritzed with water before laying on a piece of watercolor paper. Here is the card made with that piece:
I did not have as much success with the 2nd part of this technique- it was always so very light. But on this one, I simply moved the stencil over and sponged some more ink and I liked the result. I loved Channin's idea of layering white sentiments on a vellum piece and used sentiment dies from Karen Burniston on vellum for both of these cards. I added some Gina Marie Designs gems to finish each card.
