Simply Praying

Hello All! It’s LauraJane today sharing a simple card using the Prayers stamp set with a hint of Country Blooms. I find that I do a lot of praying while I’m in the craft room…and I needed several encouragement cards this week, so this simple created. I’ll show you ina few step-by-step photos how it came together.

Starting out with an A2 sized CS masked at half an inch from the top and bottom. Working on a grid makes this step easy.

First I stamped PRAYING in a dark shade of blue at an angle. Then repeat stamped PRAYING several more times in a lighter shade, trying to keep the same angle as the first.

• Next I carefully removed the masking tape and positioned it so the top and bottom half inches were exposed.
• I inked them with the lighter shade of blue and stamped the LEAVES from Country Blooms over them using the darker blue.
• Carefully, so as not to tear the paper, I removed the taped once again. Ran the panel through the BigShot with a Stitched rectangle die.
• At this point I realised that I had left too much white space above the “g” in the dark blue PRAYING,… sorry no photo… So I trimmed off the two half inch inked strips from the top and bottom and set them aside.
• Trimmed down the PRAYING panel above the G, and layered some fun foam behind it.

• Inked the FOR HEALING in the dark blue and swiped the ink pad across the bottom and top edges for more definition.
• Took an A2 card base and adhered the Half inch strips to the top and bottom.
• Used some washi tape to fill in the extra space left by trimming the PRAYING panel down.
• Placed that panel on top so the solid blue washi was evenly peaking out from behind.

 Added a few tiny little stars from Fireworks Mix to finish the card:)

Lesson learned…. A card can usually be fixed with a bit of trimming and washi:))

Thanks for stopping in. Hope you take time to create something today!