Thank You Card for a Friend

Hello! Today I'd like to share a cheerful thank you card that I made for a friend. I was inspired to make it during Hero Arts' Make Your Own Message challenge.

Thank You Card for a Friend:
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To make this card, I started with the Screen Shadow stamp. I inked it up using two different colors of Brilliance pearlescent pigment ink: green and blue. This is a nice thick ink and I love how it shines. I started with the green and inked a hilly landscape, then I added the blue to cover the stamp, and stamped it on white card stock. Because I am famous for smearing pigment ink, I decided to set it aside and let it dry overnight.

When the ink was dry, I used blue painter's tape, like you'd get from a home improvement store, to mask the right side of the white cardstock. Then I stamped the Stamping Green Tree image using vintage sepia pigment ink. I removed the mask and then I set this aside to dry for hours.

Once the second layer of pigment ink was dry, I colored in the leaves and berries using Sharpie markers in red and green. I also added some detail to the trunk using a brown Sharpie. I used an eyelet punch to punch a hole on either side of the tree, and tied a pale green ribbon around the trunk.

I trimmed the white cardstock down, leaving about a border all the way around. Then I used shaped scissors to edge the white cardstock. I cut a piece of black cardstock that was just a tiny bit larger than the white cardstock, and adhered the white cardstock to it. This bit of contrast emphasizes the edge detail.

I made a card base (4.25" x 5.5" or A2 sized) from textured yellow cardstock, folded along the top edge. Then I stamped the sentiments on the white cardstock piece and along the bottom edge of the card base using warm red chalk ink. Again, I set these pieces aside to dry thoroughly.

Hours later, I came back and adhered three red gemstones in the tree for pop. To finish the card, I used pop dots to adhere the focal image to the card base, so that it would have dimension.

Materials used:

• cardstock: white, black, textured yellow


• Clearsnap/ColorBox Cat's Eye fluid chalk ink: warm red


• Creative Memories Corner Rounder (the only one that works for me)


• gemstones, small red (unknown brand)


• Hero Arts CL272 All Occasion Messages (just "friend" from "hello friend")


• Hero Arts K5107 Screen Shadow


• Hero Arts K5062 Stamping Green Tree (like the tree in CL230 Live Simply)


• Hero Arts CL142 Thank You Messages


• Making Memories Tool Kit: eyelet punch (version II is now available)


• painter's tape


• Plaid All Night Media Pop Dots


• Provo Craft Paper Shapers scissors: 34-0026 discontinued style


• ribbon


• Sharpie Ultra Fine Point Permanent Marker: lime green, red, and brown


• Tsukineko Brilliance Dew Drop pearlescent pigment ink: Sky Blue and Lime


• Tsukineko VersaFine pigment ink: Vintage Sepia

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