Faux letterpress Challenge card

Good Morning My Lovely friends,

Today's blog is going to be a brief one, I am fine but had a devastating day yesterday so I am finding it difficult to stay composed.

I threw myself into crafting yesterday afternoon, I think that we all use our crafting as therapy some times, if was how I first started crafting to be honest.

I used a mask (HoneyDoo I think) I placed it over a piece of white card and then took ''Twisted Citron, Fossilized Amber, Dried Marigold, Peeled Paint and Peacock Feathers' Distress Oxide inks and covered the mask with them, stencilling through it but making sure the ink stayed on the mask too, I then took another piece of white paper, laid the stencil (ink side down) onto the white card and ran it through the die cutting machine, when I peeled back the mask this is what it looked like...

I fancied having a bit of sparkle so I used the Pearlywink Glitter Pearl spray to give a light spritz, I rolled my paper towel over to absorb any excess and make the Distress Oxide ink a little softer in colour. 

To make the card I used my Card Making Magic Octagonal Box die set to cut the card base and layers,

the sentiment I thought was quite 'apt' right now too, I stamped that in Dusty Concord Distress oxide ink, I stamped some of my Heartfelt Creations flower stamps and dies to cut flowers in the same colours as my background. I shaped them in the flower shaper plate and added them to my card with some extra foliage.

I hope you like my card and it helps any of you that are struggling for ideas.

Sending lots of love and hugs to all of you,

Sandra

xxxxxx