“Comfort & Hope” Card Tutorial

HAPPY FRIDAY! I’m posting this a bit late in the day but I wanted to share a beautiful card tutorial with you. This card was created by Amy Cook, for this month’s Leaders Project Sheet group and it features the lovely “Comfort & Hope” stamp set!

Here is the inside of the card:

Measurements:

• Crumb
  Cake: 5 ½” x 8 ½”, scored at 4 ¼”, (card base)

• Blushing
  Bride: 5 ¼” x 4”

• Whisper
  White: 5’ x 3 ¾”; ¾” x 3 ¼” strip

• Fluid
  100 Watercolor paper: 5’ x 3 ¾”

• Designer
  Paper: 1’ x 3 ½” strip

Instructions:

1. Squeeze
   the Blushing Bride ink pad -while closed- in order to put some ink on the lid. Use watercolour painter to squeeze some water onto the lid and brush a watercolour wash background onto the watercolour paper.
   While the background wash is still wet – stamp the herringbone pattern in blushing bride on the right side. Allow to dry.

2. Stamp
   the saying with Crumb Cake ink onto the Whisper White strip. Use a
   punch or scissors to cut the banner end.

3. Cut
   the end of the Designer Series strip on an angle.

4. When
   dry, stamp the circle pattern in Crumb cake ink onto the right side of the watercolour paper. Use Early Espresso ink to stamp the foliage.

5. Adhere
   the Blushing Bride to the Crumb Cake card base. Adhere to the watercolour background to the Blushing Bride layer.

6. Adhere
   the Designer Series paper strip to the watercolour paper as shown.
   Use Fine Tip Glue pen to adhere to the In Good Taste Elements as shown.
   

7. Use
   Stampin’ Up! Dimensionals to adhere to the saying.

8. Stamp
   the Whisper White inside as shown with Crumb Cake ink. To achieve
   the two-tone look of the foliage – stamp once with a fully inked
   stamp and then immediately again without reinking the stamp in
   between.

9. Adhere
   to the inside. Give to someone who could use a hug right now. 😊

Supplies:

• Stamp Set: Comfort and Hope (152509)

• Paper: Whisper White (100730), Blushing Bride (131198), Crumb Cake (120953), In Good Taste Designer Series Paper (152494), Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper (149612), Water Painters (151298)

• Extras: In Good Taste Elements (152476), Dimensionals (104430), Stampin’ Seal (152813)

• Ink: Crumb Cake (147116), Blushing Bride (147100), Early Espresso (147114)

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I want to thank everyone who left comments on my ‘aWOW’ blog hop project in my last post. I’m so glad you enjoyed the cards and labels! 

I have also had LOTS of requests for a Christmas version of my “Pop Out Card” video and I’m happy to do that for you. Stand by, as I hope to get this made and uploaded to YouTube for you over the weekend.

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