Blessings, my dear friends, and welcome to the first edition of my "Focus on Faith" for the month of July!
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This week I have two creations to share with you using the brand new, and very lovely, "Mercy set", along with some new die sets.
My first creation is a simple, yet elegant, watercolor.
I die cut a piece of Canson XL Bristol Smooth cardstock using a label from the new #6233 die set to create a focal piece to stamp my bird and sentiment. **professional tip- be sure to use an embossing mat to dry emboss the die cut after cutting to give a clean, crisp and embossed edge to your die cut.
I used Black Versafine ink to do my stamping in my MISTI stamping tool. I then watercolored my image with dye ink markers, adding in light washes of color to each section and going back in with a full strength ink to add in depth and shading.
Once my image was colored, I added a light wash of blue in the background for a tiny bit of sky and let that dry. I then went back with a damp brush and pulled some the green color from my leaves out into the background . I then added a bit more green in splotches for more background interest.
Simple, easy, and oh so lovely! Don't you think? I just love this sweet image!
I created 2 mats of a light and dark peach colored cardstock. I embossed the darker peach with an embossing folder to add texture and interest to the panel. I distressed the edges of both panels with the edge of a scissors and adhered them together. I wrapped, and adhered a piece of pretty white lace towards the bottom of my panel, and then popped up my focal piece with foam tape and mounted it to the right center of my embossed background panel.
As a final touch of softness and interest, I added a pretty seam binding bow with a corduroy button off to the left of my focal piece.
And that finishes my first card.
My second card uses the mirror image of the bird branch, but this time I stamped with Black Momento ink onto a scrap of the Canson XL Bristol Smooth cardstock, and then colored it with alcohol markers, and then fussy cut out of my sweet bird so I could pop him up on top of a nest of thread. I stamped my sentiment in Sepia Versafine Ink onto a white paper doily, and then popped up my birdie to the right hand side on his little nest of peachy pink thread With tiny foam squares. I added tiny pink pearls to the centers of my open flowers.
I added 2 mats of dsp that had the peach and pink tones of my flowers that I had colored, and distressed the tap, and bottom edges with a scissors. I then added some pink zig zag stitching to the right hand side with my sewing machine. I wrapped some crinkle seam binding ribbon, that I hand dyed with Distress reinker in Tattered Rose, around my dsp panels, and tied a simple bow.
I then added that whole panel to a mat of peachy pink cardstock, and then to my whitecard base. I die cut a decorative bookmark from the new #6230 die set with the same peachy pink cardstock and cut off the decorative edge to use behind my doily. I adhered that with my tape runner, and then added a circle of white fun foam behind my doily to pop up that layer.
As a final touch I added a decorative cream colored button to the center of my bow with the same pink thread I used for the nest behind my bird.
And that finishes my second card.
I can't tell you how much I love this new "Mercy set"! It is so lovely, and has the best "Mercy" sentiments. It is a "must have" if you like birds. I hope you liked my two projects, and got inspired to create something soft, beautiful, and faith inspired using this lovely new set. Have a blessed week, and I will see you again on the 21st of July.
God bless you all,
Sara Furr- The Crafty Farm Chick
Other products used:
Die cutting machine
Paper cutter
Embossing folder
MISTI stamping tool
Versafine ink in Black and Sepia
Dye ink markers
Alcohol ink markers
Scissors
Watercolor brush
Glue dots
Foam tape
Seam binding ribbon
Buttons
Thread
Sewing machine
Dsp
Cardstock
Doily
Lace
Pink pearls
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