Hugs & Strength Blue Monochrome Card

A tutorial to make a handmade card to show your support and encouragement using My Favorite Things Sending You Hugs Die-Namics, Catherine Pooler Ink, Recollections Ombre Patterned Paper, and more! #cardmaking #handmadecard #homemadecard #cardtutorial #hugscard #encouragementcard
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As I warned in my last post, here is yet another monochromatic card! I promise to use more than one color soon! 

My aunt had a major surgery, so I sent this off to her to send her some love and support. And by the way, everything went well, and she is recovering splendidly!

INSTRUCTIONS:

I started with a piece of blue ombre patterned paper, and I cut a piece with my trimmer to a 4" by 5.25" panel. I placed some silver glitter in my glitter mister bottle. Then I placed the panel in my splatter box, and sprayed it with some spray adhesive and then misted with glitter!

While the panel dried, I die cut a piece of white cardstock with the "sending you hugs" die with my die cutting machine, and then I used a circle die as a frame for it. I then blended some blue ink around the edge of the die cut circle with a blending brush. 

For the rest of the sentiment, I stamped "sending you strength" on a scrap of white cardstock with the same blue ink with my stamping tool, and I cut it down to size with my trimmer. Then, I attached it with glue to a scrap of the ombre paper cut down with my trimmer to act as a border for the sentiment.

To tie the die cut and stamped sentiments together, I stamped an ampersand ["&"] from a planner stamp set onto a scrap of the ombre paper with the same ink and my stamping tool. Once the ink dried, I used a clear glitter gel pen to color over the stamped symbol. I used my mini scissors to fussy cut it out.  

To assemble, I used spray adhesive and glue to attached the panel to an American A2 side-folding card base (made with white cardstock, a scoring board, and trimmer) with the folded side down, and then the die cut sentiment to the panel... not forgetting to add the center of the "D" using my tweezers! I then glued on the stamped sentiment and used a small piece of thin double-sided adhesive foam to pop up the ampersand. 

For a little extra bling (of course!), I glued on a few rhinestones in two sizes (from a large set from Amazon that are actually for nails!) with the assistance of an embellishment tool.

And voila!

✨ Look at the shine in the video! ↓↓↓ ✨

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CHALLENGES ENTERED:

1. Die Cut Divas: Tone on Tone

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Comments

  1. Catie CuddlesJuly 10, 2021 at 2:26 AM

    This is fabulous. Love the sparkle and the circle frame to the big sentiment.
    Thanks for joining us at Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies challenge.
    Happy crafting!
    Catherine x DT

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  2. InkyfingersJuly 14, 2021 at 7:21 AM

    I love monochrome cards, Lex and the design of this one is so well thought through. I wish I could catch the sparkle irl!
    Thanks for sharing with us at ATSM.
    Hugs
    Carol x

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  3. Sheri GilsonJuly 31, 2021 at 9:12 PM

    Wonderful monochromatic card! Thank you so much for playing along with the Kat Scrappiness July Card Challenge!

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