To My Beautiful Friend 💜

Hello my dear readers,

I have been a little slower at posting, since I've been busy with day to day things. But crafting has always been on my mind. My dear friend Sadia a CAS card lover inboxed me this wonderful challenge by CAS Colours & Sketches.

The challenge I'm entering was, challenge #397 -  Color, to use the given colors:

I would also like to enter this card for the November Stamplorations The Stencil Challenge:

Check it out! - https://stamplorations.blogspot.com/2020/11/november-stencil-challenge.html

At first when my friend gave me the link, I was really hesitant to participate, because I didn't have the cardstocks of these colors, either too dark or too vibrant. But my friend was like " use color pencils " then I remembered I had acrylic paints!

So, I grabbed my paints and stencils and of course the water colour paper from my paper pad (Oh dear I struggle to use these!). Masked a section of my card and taped down my stencil, blended the colours and followed my heart. Slowly my desk was starting to fill up. Then I cut the paper down to 2/8 inch shorter than 4/6 inches. Matted it onto 4/6 lavender paper.

I had gotten this star die set recently, and something inside me was screaming - "USE THIS!". I went ahead and used it to create a shaker. I added in a ribbon at the top ( I really don't know why, just had to !). 

Then it was time for the sentiment, I actually wanted to go with something related to stars, but unfortunately had no stamp with the word, so, I chose to use "To My Beautiful Friend" once again.

I then reached out for my half pearls to finish of the card front.

For the inside of the card, I used a piece of the intial front panel that I messed up. I stamped the sentiment thinking of you and layered it on top of another square piece of lavender paper. Then I used the leftover star die cut from the shaker and put a flower on top, topped it off with a white half pearl.

For the back of the card I used a strip of embossed lavender paper, I got this border embossing folder recently as well and I love these! I finished the back off with my logo printout!

For the envelope I layered 2 label die cuts, and added in the butterfly die cut I recently got as gift. It was easy to make the envelope this time as another dear friend of mine, let me use her envelope maker!

I tied in the envelope with the card front by including white half pearls!

Here's the final look once again:

 

 

Hope you liked this card of mine. Thank you all for your love and support it truly means alot to me and encourages me to craft more!

Love, 

Foo💜